LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by SoCalKid

I’d be surprised if it got built in its current design. All those cantilevers with pools would make it extremely expensive to build.

Maybe not that expensive. Cantilevers work even with something heavy like water. They only seem to have a few of them for the really expensive units on the upper floors. It sure would be a hot place to live for the wealthy I would think. Do they have financing, or is it just a spec proposal? Most L.A. skyscrapers have been too conservative in their design. This would change that and would be exciting and would be popular with locals and tourists I would bet. Look at all the attention the Gehry Concert Hall has gotten. Architectural "home runs" always take chances with design.

[blackcat23]

The Albany

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Why does a hotel need 800 parking stalls? Dont get me wrong, i love the fact that were finally seeing proposals for rundown properties on the western side of the 110 freeway, but 800 parking stalls is outrageous. Get rid of a majority of that parking as well as the podium and go up 10 floors

[hughfb3]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Why does a hotel need 800 parking stalls? Dont get me wrong, i love the fact that were finally seeing proposals for rundown properties on the western side of the 110 freeway, but 800 parking stalls is outrageous. Get rid of a majority of that parking as well as the podium and go up 10 floors

Banquet/convention/events hall on site and employees

[citywatch]

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Holland Delivers Pair of DTLA MF’s
April 1, 2019

Vancouver, WA-based developer Holland Partner Group (HPG) completed a pair of multifamily towers, The Grace and The Griffin on Spring, in DTLA. The two high-rise mixed-use developments are located at the intersection of the Historic Core and Fashion Districts at 8th and Spring streets.

The 24-story towers include a mix of studios to three-bedroom apartments. The Griffin on Spring is comprised of 275 residential units above 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail, while The Grace on Spring consists of 300 units above 7,500 square feet of ground-floor retail. Both towers feature such amenities as observatory rooftop lounges, a fitness center, business center and conference rooms, resort-style swimming pool and an entertainment lounge.

MVE + Partners’ Matthew McLarand, which designed the development, says, “Since breaking ground, the towers have reinforced a sense of renewed vitality within the local community, as premier retail stores and restaurants emerge in the immediate area, helping to bridge together other newly-revitalized areas of Downtown Los Angeles.”

Holland Partner's Grace on Spring, at 732 S. Spring St., opened in November, and the Griffin on Spring, at 755 S. Spring St., followed a month later. Tenant recruitment has been steady with the 300-unit Grace now 34% leased and 31% occupied. Griffin, with 275 apartments, is 50% leased and 44% occupied.

as recently as 2 1/2 yrs ago.....

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[pwright1]

[scania]

Aven has a plethora of amenities.

[citywatch]

Originally Posted by pwright1

Your helpful pics show ongoing changes to dt. They make me think of observations like these:

March 6, 2019

Once notoriously lifeless and empty—“It really felt like a bomb had gone off in downtown, if you were there on a Saturday,” one longtime local said—downtown Los Angeles has morphed into one of the city’s most compelling and fast-growing neighborhoods—at least in terms of population. In the next 25 years, up to 25% of LA’s population growth will be concentrated in downtown’s 5.8 square miles, an area comprising only 1% of the city’s total land area.

December, 29, 2017

We’re staying at the LA Live Courtyard in downtown Los Angeles. Downtown LA has undergone a renaissance since the early 2000s. Downtown suffered a downturn after World War II, as many buildings were razed to create parking spaces. Lots of people worked downtown, but few people stayed.

When I was here in 2002 for the Rose Bowl, we just drove by downtown a couple of times, with nothing much going on. Rose Bowl headquarters were out at Century Center, near Beverly Hills, and later they moved to Huntington Beach. But now the Rose Bowl headquarters downtown, at the LA Grand Hotel, which is about a mile from its auxiliary hotel, the Courtyard. A shuttle takes us back and forth, though Thursday morning we walked it. Which means I got to see a lot of downtown.

Now, make no mistake. Downtown LA is not Midtown Manhattan or Chicago’s Magnificent Mile/Loop combination. But it’s a thriving, alive place. Kudos to Los Angeles for reversing the trend of everything cool in SoCal being somewhere besides Los Angeles.

dtla is now pulling more of its share of LA's weight, something that it actually never really did, even over 70 yrs ago, much less over 30 yrs ago.


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[pwright1]

Just found out the the Paul Smith store coming to Broadway will open July 2019.

[pwright1]

Just found out the the Paul Smith store coming to Broadway will open July 2019.

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Nice, that's next to the Orpheum right?

[ocman]

Most people may think this is frivolous, but I’m sooo glad they didn’t use that green-tinted aquarium glass that makes the skyline the color of a dollar bill. You can see from some of the balcony pics of the skyline that DTLA already has way too many green-colored buildings. I think the trend is dying, at least.

Too late for Vancouver though:

[citywatch]

Originally Posted by ocman

Most people may think this is frivolous, but I’m sooo glad they didn’t use that green-tinted aquarium glass that makes the skyline the color of a dollar bill.

Not just that, but think of how much maintenance all the glass surfaces in many of those newer bldgs requires. Maybe non acrophobes won't mind it, but the thought of leaning over, hundreds of feet up in the air, to clean the sides of balconies that are nothing but glass isn't my idea of function over form.

this bldg has been open for awhile so it's not anything new....but looking at the owner's apt with so much glass to deal with, esp on the sides of his balcony, really stood out to me.....


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Warner Music’s New Downtown L.A. Offices Create a ‘Next-Level Mood of Excitement’

The first thing you see when you enter the lobby of Warner Music Group’s dazzling, 240,000 square foot, five-story new building in downtown Los Angeles is a hanging neon-lit spiral light sculpture that incorporates all the labels and companies that have made the space their new home. The roof offers spectacular 360-degree views of downtown L.A. clear to the ocean, and looks like an ideal party space.

After just a few days inside their new headquarters — which was originally built in 1912 as a Fort Model T showroom and factory, then was later occupied by a toy manufacturer and American Apparel — company employees are walking with an extra bounce in their step.

“The uplift in mood, morale, culture and social has been amazing,” enthuses Warner Bros. Records’ recently appointed Co-Chairman/COO Tom Corson, a Seattle native who moved back to the west coast a year ago to put his mark on this new era in the fabled label’s history. “It’s created a next-level mood of excitement for everybody.”

While many staffers were concerned about adjusting their formerly Burbank-focused commutes to Downtown — it could take 1-2 hours to get from the old office to the new, depending on traffic — both Corson and Bay-Schuck insist their commutes, from West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills, respectively, take 30-40 minutes tops. And Warner is likely to have even more music-industry neighbors, as the downtown area is quickly becoming a magnet, with both Spotify and Soho House planning to join Warner Music Group in the neighborhood, along with a combination boutique hotel, restaurant, bar and event space being built across the street in a renovated fire station, dubbed Firehouse.

[pwright1]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Nice, that's next to the Orpheum right?

That's right.

[LongBeachUrbanist]

Originally Posted by JerellO

Even the history of Chinatown SF shows that the “ancient Chinese” architecture was forced and not natural. I forgot the details, but basically the city of SF needed or wanted a way to earn more revenue, so they thought “let’s make a tourist trap outta Chinatown” which at the time looked like a normal neighborhood but with Chinese language.. similar to what SGV or Chinatown NY is today. Only thing SF did was added Chinese lanterns, gates, those lion statues, pagodas, etc etc... and voila! You have today’s SF Chinatown that draws hundreds of tourists daily or whatever. It’s a Chinese Disneyland that wasn’t authentic in the first place, but some of us being unaware of that history just assume it was built that way naturally.

I am late to this...please ignore if you really want to.

LA once did have an authentic Chinatown (Chinese district), near the railroad on Alameda, east of the Plaza. But it was razed in the 1930s to make way for Union Station. The neighborhood was "relocated" to its current location, which was originally Little Italy. (There are remnants of Little Italy in Chinatown, including the old church.) The city leaders consciously designed New Chinatown for tourism, with hokey pagoda designs.

San Francisco's Chinatown was authentic. It is a remnant of old discriminatory housing laws, which for many decades restricted all Chinese Americans in the city to living in a very small number of city blocks in the old part of the city. Those restrictions were removed decades ago, and Grant Street was reoriented as a public tourist street. But the other streets (notably Stockton Street) were (and still are) an authentically Chinese neighborhood. (And actually, Chinatown has expanded north of Broadway into North Beach, SF's Little Italy!)

In both LA and SF, with the removal of housing restrictions, arriving Chinese immigrants naturally moved to other places. In LA, they moved to the San Gabriel Valley; in SF, they moved to the Sunset and Richmond Districts, and Clement Street, and the suburbs. There is also a mainland-vs.-Taiwan aspect to where people chose to move, as well. The food is generally better in those new Chinese areas, because the people arriving have more money than previous generations, and they want actual, authentic Chinese food (and not Americanish inventions like Chop Suey).

Just wanted to give a little context.

[badrunner]

Originally Posted by citywatch

This turned out better than the renders. A rare feat.

Where are all the guys in here who were bashing this design when it was first proposed? Come and eat your crow.

[badrunner]

Originally Posted by ocman

Most people may think this is frivolous, but I’m sooo glad they didn’t use that green-tinted aquarium glass that makes the skyline the color of a dollar bill. You can see from some of the balcony pics of the skyline that DTLA already has way too many green-colored buildings. I think the trend is dying, at least.

Too late for Vancouver though:

Those building facades are brutal to look at. Looks like a bombed out warzone.

[cesar90]

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[LosAngelesBeauty]

Huge Capital Grille to Anchor Figueroa Corridor in Downtown LA

https://brighamyen.com/2019/04/09/huge-capital-grille-to-anchor-figueroa-corridor-in-downtown-la/

[blackcat23]

Renderings of the scaled-back Angels Landing