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

[blackcat23]

Originally Posted by brudy

Only 8 cool rooms? The other 72 are unhip?

Oops!

[Wilcal]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

Oops!

Blackcat,
of all the time that I've followed you I think this is your first slip-up--"Oh how the mighty have fallen." Just kidding--you're forgiven.

[brudy]

In all seriousness, that looks like a nice little hotel in a great location. I hope it survives the inevitable CEQA challenges from that scumbag lawyer.

[Flavius Josephus]

Originally Posted by brudy

In all seriousness, that looks like a nice little hotel in a great location. I hope it survives the inevitable CEQA challenges from that scumbag lawyer.

I think the delay until 2016 is to give the city time to get the HCPU back in force so it complies with the plan.

[chris08876]

First Renderings for Hollywood/Western's Boutique Hotel

Take a first look at Eighty Cool Rooms, the so-called "European Style Luxury Boutique Hotel," that intends to set up shop down the street from the Hollywood/Western subway station. The aptly-named development would consist of 80 guest rooms and 867 square feet of restaurant space, rising in a six-story structure designed by Westwood-based Atelier V Architecture. Guest amenities would include an outdoor deck on the low-rise building's second level, offering both a fire pit and a swimming pool. The hotel would occupy the address of 5600 Hollywood Boulevard, currently a vacant lot.

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http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-renderings-for-hollywoodwesterns.html

[Flavius Josephus]

Eyesore vacant lot at Olympic and La Cienega, long slated for a senior assisted living facility, may be getting active again - LADBS filing suggests some activity back in July. https://www.permitla.org/ipars/list_appl...S=1022%20S%20LA%20CIENEGA%20BLVD%2090035

[Flavius Josephus]

Not sure if we'd already heard about this, but Westside Today has this: http://westsidetoday.com/2014/10/03/37-5...tive-santa-monica-blvd-real-estate-boom/

The light-industrial corridor of Santa Monica Blvd. on the Westside has been earmarked as the next growth hotspot for developers with a recent $37.5 million-sale of an entire city block to one buyer, spurring speculation of the area’s development potential.
The block is situated at the southeast corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and Barrington Ave. in the heart of West Los Angeles with the sale labeled “indicative of the market” by real-estate speculators. The 2.64-acre commercial-zoned property stretches from Barrington and Barry Ave. and borders Idaho Ave. on the south side.
Bought by United El Segundo, Inc., a Los Angeles-based third-generation real estate investment and development firm, the deal was brokered by Dyer Sheehan Group (DSG).

And, in news that's been reported every year since 1994 and has yet to be true: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/994905-s...elocation-to-los-angeles-is-a-done-deal/

The St. Louis Rams have already made the decision to relocate to Los Angeles, and will make the official announcement after the Super Bowl, according to a new report.

“There’s a strong belief, people that are in–that I believe are in the know–multiple people, have told me that the decision has already been made and that the team is moving,” one of the hosts of 101 ESPN said in a recent show.

Meanwhile, the hilariously ambitious plan to build a 35-story residential tower on a run-down stretch of 8th St/Kenmore/Catalina in Koreatown is apparently scheduled for a City Council PLUM Committee meeting. The developers apparently decided to push for a general plan amendment to allow unlimited height without offering any affordable housing or similar sweeteners to the city, which suggests to me that they're complete amateurs. http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=09-3072. Not that I wouldn't love to see the "linear downtown" along Wilshire spread a few blocks in either direction, but these developers clearly don't have a clue how to do that in a way that actually stands some chance of success.

[blackcat23]

The developers of that tower proposal have been postponing their hearing with the PLUM committee for close to a year now. I'd keep that one filed under "not gonna' happen."

A look at some of the zone changes proposed by the Los Angeles Transit Neighborhood Plan in neighborhoods surrounding phase two Expo Line stations.

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/10/expo-line-bringing-zone-changes-to.html



The Westwood/Rancho Park station is in the middle of a pricey neighborhood of SFHs, so nothing will be happening in the immediate vicinity. Although, LATNP wants to rezone the nearby stretch of Pico Boulevard to RAS4, which allows for five-story apartment buildings with ground floor retail. The surroundings of Expo/Sepulveda Station would have a combination of industrial and residential uses, a compromise that allows the city to retain industrial land while still developing residential near the station. The Casden project is a notable exception.



Expo/Bundy Station is already in the middle of some large retail buildings and a few mid-rise office towers. LATNP wants more of the same north of Olympic Boulevard, with some residential potentially spliced in (i.e. Martin Expo Town Center). More controversially, their proposal also calls for upzoning part of the SFH neighborhood to the south. Multi-family development on side streets, mixed-use on Bundy Drive.

[Urbannizer]

The Millennium Santa Monica

http://www.themillennium.com/California/Santa-Monica/Millennium-Santa-Monica/

[Flavius Josephus]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

The developers of that tower proposal have been postponing their hearing with the PLUM committee for close to a year now. I'd keep that one filed under "not gonna' happen."

A look at some of the zone changes proposed by the Los Angeles Transit Neighborhood Plan in neighborhoods surrounding phase two Expo Line stations.

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/10/expo-line-bringing-zone-changes-to.html



The Westwood/Rancho Park station is in the middle of a pricey neighborhood of SFHs, so nothing will be happening in the immediate vicinity. Although, LATNP wants to rezone the nearby stretch of Pico Boulevard to RAS4, which allows for five-story apartment buildings with ground floor retail. The surroundings of Expo/Sepulveda Station would have a combination of industrial and residential uses, a compromise that allows the city to retain industrial land while still developing residential near the station. The Casden project is a notable exception.



Expo/Bundy Station is already in the middle of some large retail buildings and a few mid-rise office towers. LATNP wants more of the same north of Olympic Boulevard, with some residential potentially spliced in (i.e. Martin Expo Town Center). More controversially, their proposal also calls for upzoning part of the SFH neighborhood to the south. Multi-family development on side streets, mixed-use on Bundy Drive.

As LetsGoLa has been saying on his/her blog and twitter feed, the LATNP is ridiculously NIMBYish. Still too much SFR near transit, missing the opportunity to have some transit-oriented density. The projected demand is laughably low (so low, in fact, that it would be hilarious if some YIMBYs sued them under CEQA for relying on inaccurately low projections).

[blackcat23]

In a perfect world, LADCP could push through more substantial overhaul. But the political reality is that even the underwhelming upzoning proposed here is catching major backlash from residents. IIRC, the West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council has already written a letter in opposition to the LATNP. Not sure if the Westside Neighborhood Council has taken an official stance yet.

[blackcat23]

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/10/del-rey-getting-two-low-rise-apartment.html

Couple of low-rise residential buildings planned for Culver Boulevard, west of the 405.

11811 Culver Boulevard: 5 floors, 27 apartments, Shubin + Donaldson Architects


11749-55 Culver Boulevard: 4 floors, 19 apartments, REC Architects

[Flavius Josephus]

Per the fortnightly filings report (http://cityplanning.lacity.org/CNCRpts/dsp_viewFileDetail.cfm?filename=299):

- 12 story hotel coming to 1523 N Wilcox (Hollywood)
- Adaptive reuse of a church into a charter school at 461 W 9th St in San Pedro
- Modern technology meets an old zoning code at 6624 W Melrose, where the owner of a 3D printing business is trying to get that use permitted.
- 1715 N Bronson (Hollywood) is hopefully going to see a 7-story, 89 unit job.
- 5750 W Wilshire is seeking permits for a farmers' market
- 36 unit building proposed at 121 S Kings Rd (by the Beverly Center)
- 46 room hotel at 10740 W Ventura
- 36 unit apts at 1330 S Federal in West LA
- 56 unit apts at 350 S Alexandria in K-town
- 4 story, 226 unit mixed user at 3076 W Olympic, also in K-town
- A handful of sub-30 unit residential buildings around the place, including a 22 unit job at 7228 N Amigo in Reseda, 22 units at 7047 N Jordan in Canoga Park, 29 units at 1144 N Cahuenga in Hollywood, and a 14-unit condo building at 1644 S Malcolm in Westwood.

[Steve2726]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

Construction permits are in the works for the Wetherly Luxury Residences. 12 stories/152', 55 condos, located a few blocks west of the Beverly Center/Cedars-Sinai.

There's a huge fence (almost 2 stories high) up around this lot. Not sure if digging or construction has started yet, but it seems imminent.

[112597jorge]

New 13 story hotel, Marriott Edition coming to the Sunset Strip, very beautiful design, IMO.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/wh...ing_lush_sunset_strip_marriott_hotel.php

all that lush, jungle look is a great touch.

[blackcat23]

http://www.wehoville.com/2014/10/05/brit...aborates-ian-schrager-sunset-blvd-hotel/

British Minimalist Designer John Pawson Collaborates with Ian Schrager on Sunset Blvd. Hotel

Ian Schrager, who pioneered the “boutique hotel” concept with such famous examples such as the Delano in Miami and the Morgans, Paramount and Royalton hotels in New York, and John Pawson, the British minimalist designer, have collaborated on the design of the new Marriott Edition hotel planned for the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard at Doheny on West Hollywood’s border with Beverly Hills.

The 148-room hotel will be the West Coast flagship of the Edition hotel concept, developed by Schrager, who also is known for partnering in the 1970s with Steve Rubell on New York City’s Studio 54, the nightclub of choice for the likes of Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli and Mick Jagger. The concept is to create the one-of-a-kind feel of a boutique hotel, as exemplified by its unique food and entertainment offerings, among other things, in a chain hotel. It will also include 20 condominiums, a restaurant and spa.

[Flavius Josephus]

Originally Posted by 112597jorge

New 1 story hotel, Marriott Edition coming to the Sunset Strip, very beautiful design, IMO.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/10/wh...ing_lush_sunset_strip_marriott_hotel.php

all that lush, jungle look is a great touch.

Yep. Rainforest-inspired look is great in a drought. I have a feeling the words "recycled water" are going to come up a lot in the Planning Commission meeting...

[kelbeen]

Camden out in Glendale

Los Feliz X San Fernando

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/glendale_cant_quit_big_mixeduser_begins_in_southwest.php

[blackcat23]

The two Expo-adjacent hotels in Downtown Santa Monica. OTO Development and designed by Gwynne Pugh Urban Studios:

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.com/2014/10/excavation-underway-for-expo-adjacent.html

136-room Courtyard by Marriott


143-room Hampton Inn & Suites

[RST500]

That's pathetic. This is what Santa Monica should look like.



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