LOS ANGELES | METRO Project Rundown 2.0 (non-downtown)

[IMBY]

Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

What exactly is a light rail vacation?

Traveling to a city where you don't need a potential metal coffin, on 4 wheels, to get you around, where, instead of seeing the scenery, your eyes are riveted to the speedometer/gas gauge, and forever looking into a rearview mirror for a police car following you, all those factors which translate to work and stress!

So where can you see a whole lot of any city without a car today? NYC, Chicago, Dallas, L.A., Boston, Portland, DC, San Diego. And soon there will be other cities where no car will be necessary for a stress-free vacation.

Travel agents need to get going on this, advertising it more heavily, particularly with a looming aging population on the horizon.

[JG573]

Originally Posted by IMBY

Traveling to a city where you don't need a potential metal coffin, on 4 wheels, to get you around, where, instead of seeing the scenery, your eyes are riveted to the speedometer/gas gauge, and forever looking into a rearview mirror for a police car following you, all those factors which translate to work and stress!

So where can you see a whole lot of any city without a car today? NYC, Chicago, Dallas, L.A., Boston, Portland, DC, San Diego. And soon there will be other cities where no car will be necessary for a stress-free vacation.

Travel agents need to get going on this, advertising it more heavily, particularly with a looming aging population on the horizon.

Thinking about it, you can add San Francisco to that list also.

[BrandonJXN]

I'm loving this trend of stuff happening all over the city.

From Curbed:


http://la.curbed.com/uploads/2013_01_hptransitvillage.jpg

The Highland Park Transit Village, in the works for at least five years, and approved by the city in 2011, is finally seeing some momentum. The Highland Park Neighborhood Council is inviting affordable housing developer McCormack Baron Salazar to discuss their project's next steps at a public meeting tomorrow night, Eastsider LA reports. The project is proposed for two surface parking lots on Marmion Way and one on Avenue 56--the lots all hug the neighborhood's Gold Line station and are owned by the Department of Transportation--and has been scaled back from its original version (pictured). Surprise, surprise: locals cried foul at the thought of 101 new housing units in quaint HP. The three developments now feature a total of 80 units, with 20 condos and the rest as rentals, plus a plethora of affordable units and underground parking. Back in 2010, two of the Transit village's buildings had retail, while one building was made up of only seven condos. It's not clear if the latest iteration is mixed-use, but all will be known tomorrow.

[brudy]

Originally Posted by ThreeHundred

I'm loving this trend of stuff happening all over the city.

From Curbed:


http://la.curbed.com/uploads/2013_01_hptransitvillage.jpg

Except this project keeps getting smaller...

[Munchitup]

Hi first time poster on this site...

Maybe it was mentioned in this thread but has anyone heard anything about the building at Wilcox and Selma? http://goo.gl/maps/CI4uH

There are Ramland Construction signs on the building and they have built "canopies" over the sidewalks, but I didn't see anything on Ramland's web site about it or any of the development web sites.

Anyone with knowledge of this project?

[Wally West]

Originally Posted by Munchitup

Hi first time poster on this site...

Maybe it was mentioned in this thread but has anyone heard anything about the building at Wilcox and Selma?

There are Ramland Construction signs on the building and they have built "canopies" over the sidewalks, but I didn't see anything on Ramland's web site about it or any of the development web sites.

Anyone with knowledge of this project?

This may be the project you're talking about.


http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/11/hollywoods_selma_hotel_alive_and_well_becoming_a_dream.php

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

ha, i was just thinking about this the other day and wondering when it would start construction! awesome

[Ivan]

there's pretty large construction site with lots of dirt moving in action right in front of gold's gym south side at romaine and cahuenga. does anyone know what's going on on this site that just recently was a surface parking lot?

[WonderlandPark]

Looks like the 22 "small lot" home project is getting ready at Melrose and Gramercy, all the sudden the graders are on site and a fence has gone up, drive by this every day on my way to work. It googles as 5120 Melrose, not tall, but good density to a long dead stretch of Melrose.

Also passed what I think is the Spaghetti Factory site, looks 1-2 stories up, can post a pic later.

[DistrictDirt]

Originally Posted by WonderlandPark

Looks like the 22 "small lot" home project is getting ready at Melrose and Gramercy, all the sudden the graders are on site and a fence has gone up, drive by this every day on my way to work. It googles as 5120 Melrose, not tall, but good density to a long dead stretch of Melrose.

Seems like the small lot subdivision ordinance projects are really picking up. I'm really intrigued by them. I love rowhouse/townhouse living, but those types of homes hardly exist in LA. Seems like this ordinance is going to change that.

[StethJeff]

Originally Posted by Pink Floyd

Century Plaza's Two-Tower Makeover is a Go in Century City






Curbed LA

Outside of the Wilshire Grand project, is this the biggest realistic project in LA right now?

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by StethJeff

Outside of the Wilshire Grand project, is this the biggest realistic project in LA right now?

The Millennium Project in Hollywood, too.

[Kingofthehill]

I am really excited to see how that Hollywood project mentioned a few posts above is going to turn out. That's not at all a bad design.

Originally Posted by WonderlandPark

Looks like the 22 "small lot" home project is getting ready at Melrose and Gramercy, all the sudden the graders are on site and a fence has gone up, drive by this every day on my way to work. It googles as 5120 Melrose, not tall, but good density to a long dead stretch of Melrose.

Great news. My favorite Thai restaurant isn't too far past there. I agree, Melrose from, say, Vine on east, is exceptionally dead. I have always wondered what it would take to get LA's sleepy, autocentric E/W commercial streets, such as Melrose, Beverly, and even alot of Santa Monica (to make no mention of Jefferson, or Washington), back from the dead.

[Quixote]

Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

The Millennium Project in Hollywood, too.

Interesting. What makes you say that? Now you've gotten my hopes up.

[Valyrian Steel]

The proposed Norm's-killing mixed use project on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica has swallowed up another neighboring business. Century West Partners has bought the Wertz Brothers Antique Mart building and adjacent parking lot, says the LA Times, for more than $11 million, and the property will be developed as part of the Lincoln Boulevard Collection. The LBC is made up four buildings, putting a total of 421 new studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments just a few blocks away from the future Downtown Santa Monica (aka Colorado and Fourth Street) Expo Line stop. Business is booming for property near the Expo: properties near future stops are going for "as much as seven times higher than previously assessed values."

Each building will have groundfloor retail and the amenities round-up features many of the usual suspects: pool, sun deck, screening room, and fitness center, plus granite countertops and stainless steel appliances in the units. A list of "distinctive features" includes in-wall USB outlets and Bluetooth-enabled amplifiers with in-wall speakers.

The development agreement application looks to be part of the massive backlog at the Santa Monica planning department, though Santa Monica believes the project will not require the full (lengthy) environmental impact report process.

Source: Curbed LA

[Kingofthehill]

We'll definitely have to see how the construction materials pan out on that one. That said, Downtown SM has been on fire lately! All sorts of wonderful, new projects.

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Santa Monica, Downtown, Hollywood, Koreatown and La Brea are on Fire...hmmm whats the common denominator here?

[Illithid Dude]

One of these days, I'll do a Santa Monica construction rundown. There is a ton of stuff going up, and a lot of very interesting architecture.

[Easy]

Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

One of these days, I'll do a Santa Monica construction rundown. There is a ton of stuff going up, and a lot of very interesting architecture.

I didn't want to ask, but that would be great.

[colemonkee]

I went by this project yesterday, and it's still an operating smoke shop. So this isn't starting anytime in the very near future. On a positive note, the Emerson College building and the Old Spaghetti Factory projects on Sunset are really starting to make an impact. No pictures because I was driving, but it's pretty cool. Sometime over the next month I'll take the subway down there and take photos of all the projects in the area. There are a lot of cranes in Hollywood. Feels like 2008 all over again!

Originally Posted by Wally West

This may be the project you're talking about.


http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/11/hollywoods_selma_hotel_alive_and_well_becoming_a_dream.php