A three-story building will replace Coogie’s Cafe in Mid-City and a four-story building will rise near CVS downtown according to proposals before the Architectural Review Board Tuesday night.  

The mixed-use building with 46 units and 12,080 square feet of ground floor commercial space will supplant Coogie’s, a squat diner that has occupied 2906 Santa Monica Blvd. since it was built in 1969. The owner of Coogie’s, Lawrence Rhee, died last week, the restaurant’s manager said, but the project has been in the works for some time. The corner site at Yale Street and Santa Monica Boulevard is owned by producer and director Marius Markevicius.

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