LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 4.0

[LAmarODom420]

JDR, could you add Citywatch's maps to the front page when you get a chance? Thanks

[colemonkee]

Driving home on the 110 the last couple of days, I noticed a decent sized yellow crane at the southern edge of the USC campus. I know the following building is being built more in the center of campus (with a smaller, red crane). I wonder what's going up there. I'll have to check it out one of these days...


Image Source: Los Angeles Times

USC building a new $50-million home for its media school
The new five-story home for USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism has been carefully designed to resemble a stately 19th century college edifice.
February 13, 2013 | By Roger Vincent

A glittering modern media school is being erected at USC in a building carefully designed to resemble a stately 19th century college edifice.

The new five-story home for the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism will be made of steel and concrete but swathed in a brick veneer intended to evoke the historic halls many Americans associate with academia.


Article Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/13/business/la-fi-property-report-20130214

[Hubris]

It's this one:




"Now, thanks to a $30 million gift from Verna B. Dauterive MEd ’49, EdD ’66, the social sciences at USC will reach new levels of distinction. Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall – USC’s first interdisciplinary social sciences building, pictured above – will be a place where faculty and students from across the university come together to tackle the most pressing social problems affecting our region and our global community."

Source: http://tfm.usc.edu/summer-2012/new-hub-for-the-social-sciences/

[BOYCOTT 90210]

Originally Posted by Hubris

It's this one:




"Now, thanks to a $30 million gift from Verna B. Dauterive MEd ’49, EdD ’66, the social sciences at USC will reach new levels of distinction. Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall – USC’s first interdisciplinary social sciences building, pictured above – will be a place where faculty and students from across the university come together to tackle the most pressing social problems affecting our region and our global community."

Source: http://tfm.usc.edu/summer-2012/new-hub-for-the-social-sciences/

This is where the crane is, I think ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[blackcat23]

EIR is out for the boutique hotel next door to Evo/Luma.

http://cityplanning.lacity.org/staffrpt/mnd/ENV-2012-3186.pdf

Looks like there have been some alterations.

1130 S Hope Street; Central City. Council District 14. The proposed project is the renovation of a vacant 76-room, 3-story URM apartment building with a full basement into a 60,220 square-foot, ten-story, 44-room boutique hotel with a restaurant bar, lounge/club, conference/meeting room, galley spaces, and pool deck. The project involves the demolition of 10,411 square feet of the existing 26,108 square feet apartment building while preserving 15,697 square feet of the structure and masonry facade. The project includes entitlement requests for: 1) conditional uses to permit a 44-room guest hotel within 500 feet of residential uses and the sale and dispensing of a full line of alcoholic beverages within the hotel’s restaurant, bars, lounges, roof deck pool area and within the guest rooms; 2) a zone variance to permit zero off-street parking in lieu of the four spaces required, to allow a commercial use adjoining an alley with a loading dock, and to permit an open air pool deck as a bar area; 3) a Zoning Administrator’s Adjustment to allow zero feet along the front, rear and side yards; 4) a Director's Determination to allow a Floor Area Ratio increase to 6:1 to permit an additional 13,000 square feet of floor area and to provide a public benefit payment in lieu of a transfer of floor area from a donor site; 5) a project permit adjustment to deviate from the Downtown Design Guidelines.

[Illithid Dude]

Nothing sounds bad about that hotel. I can't wait.

[blackcat23]

Some pictures from this afternoon.

Ava Little Tokyo



Grand Ave. Parcel M Tower



Courtyard Marriott/Residence Inn

[Kingofthehill]

Thanks for the updates. But, man, that carwash looks so out of place in the last photos. What ever happened to its sale/potential sale?

[JDRCRASH]

Originally Posted by LAmarODom420

JDR, could you add Citywatch's maps to the front page when you get a chance? Thanks

Sure thing. Page 1 definitely needs some updating. I just got a new computer charger (old one broke), so I should be able to get to it tonight!

[blackcat23]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Thanks for the updates. But, man, that carwash looks so out of place in the last photos. What ever happened to its sale/potential sale?

I believe the car wash lot has already been sold. One of the employees told me that construction is probably a year or two when I asked a couple months back.

[ConstructDTLA]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

I believe the car wash lot has already been sold. One of the employees told me that construction is probably a year or two when I asked a couple months back.

Year or two away?

We need more good corrupt politicians so the city can get rebuilt at a reasonable pace.. And the subway to the sea can be finished before my grandchildren die. Thats how cities are built.

A Chinese construction company is planning to build the world’s largest skyscraper – and it’ll race against the clock to do it.
Broad Sustainable Building wants to construct a 2,749 feet-tall building, dubbed “Sky City,” over a period of just 90 days in Changsha in Hunan province, China.
It took Dubai over five years to build the current record-holder, the Burj Khalifi, which stands at a whopping 2,722 feet.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ch...-90-days-article-1.1207643#ixzz2QCh5JBPM

[blackcat23]

I know you're kidding, but that reminds me of this:

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/poor...rete-could-lead-to-skyscraper-collapses/

Poor-Quality Chinese Concrete Could Lead to Skyscraper Collapses

Plus a couple of subway tunnels over there have also caved in during recent the past four or five years.

And this is a country that is currently building 29 nuclear reactors.

We certainly need Chinese investment to fund CAHSR, but I don't want them having anything to do with the actual construction of our infrastructure.

[RuFFy]

Originally Posted by Kingofthehill

Thanks for the updates. But, man, that carwash looks so out of place in the last photos. What ever happened to its sale/potential sale?

I was just thinking to myself that Olympic & Figueroa have become a serious crossroad in Los Angeles. It could easily be the next 7 & Figuroa and that car wash could one day be LA's Tallest. Now that's probably wishful thinking but that intersection has come alive for sure.

[colemonkee]

I don't think that lot is large enough to support a new tallest, but we could easily get something there in the 300-500 ft. range. You'd have to have a pretty visionary developer with deep pockets to get anything taller in that spot.

[202_Cyclist]

Delete.

[brudy]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

I know you're kidding, but that reminds me of this:

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/03/poor...rete-could-lead-to-skyscraper-collapses/

Poor-Quality Chinese Concrete Could Lead to Skyscraper Collapses

Plus a couple of subway tunnels over there have also caved in during recent the past four or five years.

And this is a country that is currently building 29 nuclear reactors.

We certainly need Chinese investment to fund CAHSR, but I don't want them having anything to do with the actual construction of our infrastructure.

Not to get too serious, but as part of Boston's Big Dig, subcontractors used less than spec adhesive for concrete roof panels that actually fell off and killed someone.

[LA/OCman]

9th and Broadway gets a Swedish retailer according to Brigham.

http://brighamyen.com/2013/04/12/swedish-global-fashion-chain-acne-studios-coming-to-downtown-la/

[ConstructDTLA]

Originally Posted by LA/OCman

9th and Broadway gets a Swedish retailer according to Brigham.

http://brighamyen.com/2013/04/12/swedish-global-fashion-chain-acne-studios-coming-to-downtown-la/

Thats such great news that Eastern's ground floor will finally not be a 'FILM HERE' eyesore.

Though I feel this specific brand is too early to the party.. Zara, J Crew, Forever 21, H&M, etc, could all come downtown and do ludicrous business NOW. I wish them the best & if there's anything in my price range I'll buy from them.

[brudy]

Originally Posted by HunterK

Thats such great news that Eastern's ground floor will finally not be a 'FILM HERE' eyesore.

Though I feel this specific brand is too early to the party.. Zara, J Crew, Forever 21, H&M, etc, could all come downtown and do ludicrous business NOW. I wish them the best & if there's anything in my price range I'll buy from them.

Well, ACNE is more a label that you usually find in cool boutiques or higher-end department stores. It's not budget fast-fashion. They have a lot of their own stores in europe but the only other one in the US is in Soho, so that should give you some kind of indication of their stature. This store could easily be at home on La Brea or around Melrose/West Hollywood. I think this is a pretty big win, one that other clothing retailer will notice.

[Illithid Dude]

Actually huge news that DTLA is getting the first US Acne store outside of NY. Acne is a legit fashion house, and fairly high end. I was literally just thinking earlier today as I browsed the Acne store in SoHo that LA needed an Acne store. Maybe the one in LA will have the dress sweatpants in my size...