Affordable Housing Headed to Wilmington
Planning is underway for the fourth and final phase of the New Dana Strand Village, a 20-acre affordable housing project from nonprofit developers Mercy Housing California and Abode Communities. The...
View ArticleSmall Lot Subdivision Proposed in Hollywood
The Studio District Homes on Gordon Street (Image: Modative)While a NIMBY attorney wages war against high-rise construction on Sunset Boulevard, density of a lesser variety flies under the radar just a...
View ArticleDetails Emerge for Coca-Cola Building's Mixed-Use Conversion
The rapid evolution of the Arts District continues to pick up steam, with yet another adaptive reuse project on the way. Earlier this year, a subsidiary of the New York-based Atlas Capital Group...
View ArticleSteel Sprouts for Hollywood's Dream Hotel
Six months after starting construction at 6417 Selma Avenue, rebar and steel beams now protrude above ground at the future site of Hollywood's Dream Hotel. The approximately $50 million project from...
View ArticleBig Century City/Beverly Hills Developments Get Moving
Your eyes do not deceive you: construction cranes have returned to Century City. 10000 Santa Monica Boulevard, a $300 million residential tower by developer Crescent Heights, is about to begin the...
View ArticleLow-Rise Residential Pops Up on Santa Monica Boulevard
According to a set of pictures sent in by e-mail tipster Daniel, construction is nearing completion on a the Century Park Apartments, a new multi-family complex on the southern fringe of Westwood. The...
View ArticleUCLA Medical School Expansion Takes Form
Photo credit: Daniel CastroMore than one year after breaking ground at Tiverton Drive and Le Conte Avenue, UCLA's new Teaching and Learning Center for Health Sciences is finally climbing upwards. The...
View ArticleNew Sony Studios Office Building Gets its Skin
Roughly half-a-year after breaking ground, a minor expansion project is wrapping up exterior work on the Sony Picture Studios lot (SPS). The new Studio Support Building, located near the Sony...
View ArticleAn Overhead Perspective on Playa Vista Phase Two
Only from above can one fully appreciate the massive amount of construction underway throughout the Playa Vista neighborhood. The thousand-acre expanse, formerly a component of the Howard Hughes...
View ArticleDetails Emerge for Hollywood's Academy Square Development
Image: Kilroy Realty via Curbed LAOver the summer, developer Kilroy Realty unveiled renderings for Academy Square, a $300 million mixed-use development on Vine Street. Now, a set of environmental...
View ArticleBig Arts District Warehouse Becoming Office Space
The Arts District continues to shed its industrial past, as yet another adaptive reuse project joins an already considerable list of proposed developments. According to an October case filing with the...
View ArticleMariachi Plaza Getting an Affordable Mixed-User
Conceptual rendering (2012) from DE Architects via MetroFive years after the Gold Line's Eastside branch opened, development is finally headed to one of the Metro-owned properties above Mariachi Plaza...
View ArticleMetro Planning New Developments in Boyle Heights
Mariachi Plaza, seen on a recent CicLAvia (Image: Shannon Ino)Yesterday brought the pleasant surprise of a new mixed-use development catacorner to the Gold Line's Mariachi Plaza Station. Looks like...
View ArticleSecond Mixed-User Headed to La Brea/Willoughby
Over the summer, many Los Angeles preservationists were outraged by the unannounced demolition of the Mole-Richardson Building, a one-story ArtDeco structure built in 1930. Now six months later, a...
View ArticleWhoa: Koreatown High-Rise Project Revived
3033 Wilshire Boulevard, by Steinberg Architects (Image: PMA, Inc.)Longstanding plans to build a high-rise apartment building in eastern Koreatown have suddenly kicked back into gear. According to a...
View ArticleMulti-Family Rental Projects Rising in Marina Del Rey
After stalling out amid the global recession, fancy residential developments are once again rising in Marina Del Rey's so-called "Arts District." At 4044 S. Redwood Avenue, construction is nearing...
View ArticleMiracle Mile Apartment Complex Re-Revealed
Image: LOHA ArchitectsTake another look at 727 Cloverdale Avenue, a striking low-rise apartment complex planned just south of the Miracle Mile. The purely residential development, designed by Los...
View ArticleDowntown Residential-Retail Complexes Gets Moving
Six months after breaking ground in South Park, construction has gone vertical at Olive & Pico, a new residential-retail complex from the Wolff Company. The seven-story edifice, designed by...
View ArticleMack Urban's New South Park Towers Revealed
Late last year, a joint venture between AECOM and developer Mack Urban announced plans for a $750 million mixed-use complex on six acres of South Park real estate. The first phase of the development -...
View ArticleThe East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor: Rendered
Though its June 2018 opening date looms on the distant horizon, few details regarding the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor (ESFVTC) are set in stone. The project, partially funded through...
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