Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and project officials spoke at a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday for the mixed-use project on a 5-acre site at Coliseum Street and La Brea Avenue in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood. View Park Community Hospital used to be on the vacant lot.

The groundbreaking for a new mixed-used apartment development, which will bring the first Costco to South Los Angeles and 800 new apartments, is slated for Wednesday. Thrive Living, the real estate company behind the project,

The 5-acre lot near the intersection of Coliseum and La Brea, will be home to the first mixed-use development in the nation to have Costco as the anchor retail tenant.