The La Kretz Innovation Campus (LKIC) is an interdisciplinary “innovation hub,” or incubator, where entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, community activists, and policymakers collaborate, promote, and support the development of the City of Los Angeles’ green economy. LKIC is housed in a fully seismically upgraded and renovated 61,000 SF former manufacturing building featuring offices, conference rooms, research and development labs, prototyping and manufacturing workshops, and event space, in addition to customer engagement facilities and job training classrooms operated by a major public utilities company, who owns the entire property. The existing structure’s simplicity is a backdrop for unexpected moments created by faceted walls, jewel-like skylight funnels, and a living wall at the lobby. To foster social interaction, we created a village concept, with a circulation loop that cuts through and connects the existing eight bowstring truss warehouse bays. Natural light penetrates deeply, and people can always see out and connect to the larger community. The insertion of new elements with exposed construction components, visible technologies (such as solatubes), and educational display areas, shows off new high-performance technologies that have been incorporated into the design and construction of the facility. The campus site includes surface parking covered by a 175 kilowatt photovoltaic solar canopy, greywater filtration, bioswale, and microgrid system.