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

[LA21st]

Originally Posted by SoCalKid

Which studio development is that? Echelon Studios at 5601 Santa Monica?

Yes

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by Charmy2

Had to do some research but yeah Constellation Place was the last office tower built in LA. Of course the Wilshire Grand has some office space but the tower isn't a full office building.

Last office tower built in LA was Wrapper over next to Culver City. Depending on what you consider to be an office tower, the one over near LAX and the one on Bundy and Olympic might also count.

There is also the LA City office tower on Vermont, near Wilshire. If you consider Burbank to be LA, there are the two Frank Gehry office buildings that Warner Brothers built. And don't forget the two Netflix office towers in Hollywood! We have had office towers built! Just not many of them.

[Charmy2]

Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

Last office tower built in LA was Wrapper over next to Culver City. Depending on what you consider to be an office tower, the one over near LAX and the one on Bundy and Olympic might also count.

There is also the LA City office tower on Vermont, near Wilshire. If you consider Burbank to be LA, there are the two Frank Gehry office buildings that Warner Brothers built. And don't forget the two Netflix office towers in Hollywood! We have had office towers built! Just not many of them.

I was mostly referring to actual skyscrapers and by that I mean buildings over 150 meters!

[NIMBY Slayer]

Originally Posted by Charmy2

I was mostly referring to actual skyscrapers and by that I mean buildings over 150 meters!

This is LA after all so do production office buildings really count as "office" buildings in the traditional sense? I see them separate as they are normally built on studio lots or just adjacent to the lots.

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by NIMBY Slayer

This is LA after all so do production office buildings really count as "office" buildings in the traditional sense? I see them separate as they are normally built on studio lots or just adjacent to the lots.

A building is a building!

[ChelseaFC]

Millennium Partners high rise proposal next to Capitol Records Tower is dead

[Doctorboffin]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Millennium Partners high rise proposal next to Capitol Records Tower is dead

RIP. Really hoped that one would survive, it would have been game changing. Hollywood is truly the land of dead high-rises.

[hughfb3]

Meanwhile, Siren Studios on Sunset Bl has been closed and fenced off. This is the lot where “The Star” tower is supposed to rise


A rendering of the Star, a proposed 22-story office building in Hollywood, designed by Norman Foster. (Foster + Partners)

[Charmy2]

That's good! We might be seeing some activity pretty soon!

[milquetoast]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Millennium Partners high rise proposal is dead

Pathetic!

[craigs]

Originally Posted by milquetoast

Pathetic!

That's the spirit!

[Illithid Dude]

As far as I know, The Star is still a long way off from being approved. I doubt the lot being fenced off is related to anything meaningful, though hopefully I am wrong!

[citywatch]

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[Illithid Dude]

Demolition of the old Sears building on Santa Monica is fully underway. Looks like Echelon Studios will be breaking ground very soon!

[wisheye]

Originally Posted by Illithid Dude

Demolition of the old Sears building on Santa Monica is fully underway. Looks like Echelon Studios will be breaking ground very soon!

There was an article in the LA Times recently on the developer David Simon and how gung-ho he is on Hollywood.

https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...n-on-hollywood

Anyway, the article implies that it had already started construction (maybe they meant the Sears demo):
Through his company BARDAS Investment Group, Simon recently launched construction of Echelon Studios, a $450-million complex on Santa Monica Boulevard west of the 101 Freeway on a site formerly occupied by a Sears store.

[LA21st]

Yea, it makes sense. At some point, Hollywood will have a big turnaround so I can see developers thinking this. You can see west la development inching and inching further east from La Brea. Its all just a matter of time.

Theres other developers who feel this way as well, but probably waiting for better rates.

[Radio5]

Originally Posted by LA21st

Yea, it makes sense. At some point, Hollywood will have a big turnaround so I can see developers thinking this. You can see west la development inching and inching further east from La Brea. Its all just a matter of time.

Theres other developers who feel this way as well, but probably waiting for better rates.

What's crazy is how dead La Brea is south of santa monica blvd. So many underutilized or vacant buildings, I don't get it because just looking at Sycamore and the building I'm in now on la brea, there's clearly demand.

[hughfb3]

Bardas is on a roll right now. Echelon Studios Santa Monica bl demolition of Sears.





They've also demolished the retail building at Melrose and Seward this past two weeks for another studio office building.

Driving around hollywood today, there is so much happening between all the stores, shops closing and all the new development going up. La Cienega between 3rd and San Vicente has been completely emptied out. Petsmart gone, LitMethod, 7-11, Shah Abbas. The IHOP on Santa Monica bl and Holloway in West Hollywood which was there for decades has closed. Tons of new shops have opened on Melrose between Highland and Fairfax. It seems that post 2022 more things are closing that have been staples in neighborhoods than ever... seems like more closing now than in peak shutdown times. I dont know if these major closures which seem to be in clumps are being bought by developers and will be redeveloped or if its the rapidly shifting economy

[a9l8e7n]

The enormous redevelopment at Warner Bros. Ranch moving so fast in Burbank, CA.

https://twitter.com/LA_Construct/sta...45781367361945

Off of Hollywood Way


Off of Oak St

[craigs]

Erewhon sues city to stop Sportsmen’s Lodge development in Studio City


Rendering of the proposed residential building that would replace the Sportsmen’s Lodge hotel. (Marmol Radziner)

Roger Vincent
Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2024

The owners of Erewhon have filed an environmental lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, the latest attempt by the upscale supermarket chain to stop the planned demolition of Sportsmen’s Lodge hotel in Studio City to make way for a new apartment complex. Erewhon operates a store next to the defunct hotel and previously joined with local residents, union officials and others in opposition to a 520-unit residential mixed use development planned to replace the inn that was known to generations of San Fernando Valley residents.

Plans for the new development took a leap forward last month when the City Council voted 13 to 1 to deny an appeal of the project filed by Erewon’s owners and others, clearing the way for Midwood Investment & Development to demolish the aged hotel at Ventura Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue. Midwood is Erewhon’s landlord, having built in 2021 the Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge, an outdoor mall where Erewhon is the anchor tenant among other stores, restaurants and an Equinox gym. The mall replaced a banquet facility that served as a local social center where couples got married and families shared big occasions such as bar mitzvahs.

The event center and a restaurant opened in 1946 and the hotel in 1962. The hotel permanently closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The landlord got city permission to knock down the 190-room hotel and build the Residences at Sportsmen’s Lodge, which would have 520 apartments, including 78 units of subsidized affordable housing. It would include ground-floor stores and restaurants intended to meld with the Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge.
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