 In 1990, the YWCA sold the building for $3 million to the Los Angeles Community Design Center, a nonprofit group, and Crescent Bay Co., a Santa Monica developer.The new owner renovated the building and reopened it in 1995 as housing for low income single workers making less than $17,650 per year.In order to preserve the building's original materials, woodwork, tiles and other materials "were marked, removed for restoration, then puzzled back together."