LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 3.0

[colemonkee]

The Medallion to open August 1st, according to the Downtown News. A full link to the article here.

Join Costco, Save at Medallion
Historic Core Development to Open Aug. 1
Published: Thursday, June 24, 2010 4:31 PM PDT

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - After multiple construction delays, the $125 million-plus Medallion project finally has an opening date: The development’s recently bolstered website, themedallionla.com, now says that the 96-unit, 200-store Historic Core complex will open Aug. 1, with move-ins beginning July 30.

Project representatives have already begun giving tours of the development on the northeast corner of Fourth and Main streets.


Read the rest of the article here.

[Kingofthehill]

yesterday:

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Ugly ass parking lots

[colemonkee]

koth, did you get the memo about your TPS report covers?

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesBeauty

Ugly ass parking lots

The Edition and Metropolis would erase the two big parking lots in that picture by KOTH. But would building on top of the large parking garage next to the TCW building help, too?

[LAofAnaheim]

^ And..ugly parking garages as well!

[BrandonJXN]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

The Edition and Metropolis would erase the two big parking lots in that picture by KOTH. But would building on top of the large parking garage next to the TCW building help, too?

I think it would be a bit hard to share a parking structure with the TCW Building and whatever would be built on top of it's parking structure.

[RAlossi]

I also hope that building at Figueroa and 8th Place can reopen at some point. Does anyone know what the story is behind that? It's been closed for years, and it's sitting on prime land. Who owns it?

[BrandonJXN]

Speaking of prime real estate, whatever happened to that proposed 50 story hotel that was slated to rise on that parking lot between Figueroa and Flower (between the 777 Tower and Macy's Plaza)? Renderings for that came out about 2 years ago.

[Steve2726]

Edit.

Wrong tower, sorry

[colemonkee]

That rendering was a little misleading anyway. A 50-story hotel tower, even with the crown and larger mezzanine floors, would only hit 600-625 ft. max. But that rendering shows it towering over 777 Figueroa, which is 725 ft. And even from that perspective, it wouldn't look that tall.

[RuFFy]

That Maguire tower rendering I haven't seen before. Anyhow, that building is between the 777 and the 7th/Fig parking structure, not 777 and Flower.

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

The Edition and Metropolis would erase the two big parking lots in that picture by KOTH. But would building on top of the large parking garage next to the TCW building help, too?

Wait a minute...

Is The Edition supposed to be the next AEG project? I was under the impression, IIRC, that it was supposed to be a Hard Rock Hotel with another studio of some sort. That's why they demolished the older apartment building next to the car wash on Olympic.

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Originally Posted by RAlossi

I also hope that building at Figueroa and 8th Place can reopen at some point. Does anyone know what the story is behind that? It's been closed for years, and it's sitting on prime land. Who owns it?

Are you talking about the old Bullocks space connected to 7+FIG?

[Steve2726]

that building is between the 777 and the 7th/Fig parking structure, not 777 and Flower.

Yep, I had the wrong side of Fig, my apologies.

[Avanine-Commuter]

Originally Posted by edluva

1. wealth distribution - as someone alluded to, la's wealth is distributed to its suburbs and the westside. la's influential live in the conejo valley, south bay, pasadena, malibu, etc behind gated complexes ensuring that our cultural icons the kardashians, the real housewives, and jessica simpson remain safe and uncorrupted by the less flattering reality of la's brown and yellow core. meanwhile in chicago, seattle, and other real cities, the powerful and wealthy concentrate in the urban centers wasting their time on such talentless endeavors as global business, publishing, industrial design, education, etc.

2. cultural sophistication/education - let's face it. la is phillistine. the average angeleno is less demanding of developers than his or her london or sf brethren. he/she is flat out less sophisticated and less educated, more likely to bedazzle him/herself with a/x, bebe, guess, juicy and tapout apparel, drive around in dubbed-out chargers and chromed out s600s, and is on average 300 percent more generous with hair products than the wealthy of other cities. and because architecture is market driven, la's architecture thusly reflects on local taste and sentiment.

3. overall, both of the above point to a need for a fixed guideway mass transit to ground this city literally and figuratively, so that neighborhoods and institutions can form and generations of angelenos will grow up being fiercely proud of these neighborhoods and institutions so they won't be as lost looking to pop culture for inspiration in how better to douche-ify themselves in order to define who and what they think they should be

Wait, where do you live again?

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by Avanine-Commuter

Wait, where do you live again?

Los Angeles, of all places.

[JDRCRASH]

New rendering of Park 101:

[JDRCRASH]

It looks like there's a "Park 101" sign on the old Hall of Justice building.

[202_Cyclist]

The Future of Los Angeles' Police Stations

Is the LAPD misplacing something important in the process of building the next generation of police stations?


If it weren't for the word 'police,' the Los Angeles Police Department's Hollenbeck Station could be mistaken for a modern museum.

John Buntin | July 2010

When Central Division station first opened in 1977, Los Angeles police officers dubbed it "Fort Davis" with heavy irony. Under former Chief of Police Ed Davis, officers were supposed to be building relationships with their neighborhoods. But instead, the department built a bunker--a massive, block-long structure in the heart of Skid Row. With no exterior windows and an inaccessible rooftop parking deck, Central Division was designed not so much to protect the surrounding community as it was to protect the police.

"It's an occupying block," says Thom Brennan, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Facilities Management Division's commanding officer. "You look at the architecture of that building and it means, 'stay away.'"

Three decades later and six blocks north, a very different model of police-community interaction is on display. At the corner of Main and West First streets, across the street from architect Thom Mayne's futuristic California Department of Transportation building, an angular office tower stands, sheathed by a 10-story glass wall that reflects Los Angeles' ziggurat-shaped City Hall in the distance. At one corner of the complex, workers are finishing renovations on what will soon be a restaurant. At another, a crew is shooting a film on the facility's immaculate lawn, tastefully landscaped with desert succulents. In a north side reflection garden, a detective in the LAPD's Cold Case Unit enjoys a moment of quiet. The structure behind him is the department's new home...

http://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/future-los-angeles-police-stations.html