Esteban E. Torres Village

Finished and fully leased up

Esteban E. Torres Village is finished. Fifty-one affordable apartments on Ramona Boulevard in Baldwin Park, across from the Metrolink station, developed by the Cesar Chavez Foundation and designed by Onyx Architects. The certificate of occupancy came through on December 18, 2025. Nearly every unit is tied to a project-based voucher, and the waitlist closed before the building opened because demand exceeded it. The project serves low-income families and, specifically, survivors of domestic violence. It is named for Esteban E. Torres, who represented this part of the San Gabriel Valley in Congress for sixteen years.

What was built

• 51 apartments across one- to four-bedroom units, one a manager's unit
• 48 subterranean parking stalls, 7 ADA-accessible
• 15% of units designed for mobility-impaired residents
• ~5,700 sq ft open space: courtyards, rooftop deck, community garden

The site and the corridor

Ramona Boulevard, across from the Baldwin Park Metrolink station on the San Bernardino Line, in what the city calls the Downtown Corridor. The companion project is Central Metro Place, 54 affordable senior apartments by Retirement Housing Foundation, a short distance south on Central Avenue and finishing now. Together the two projects put 105 deeply affordable homes on Baldwin Park's downtown transit within roughly eighteen months.

What this means if you live nearby

The building is open and occupied. Ramona Boulevard picks up 51 households, 48 parking stalls, and a community garden. The voucher waitlist is closed, so this is not an opening to apply into.