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

[blackcat23]

^I pass by that construction site everyday, and man have they moved at a snail's pace.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...vestments.html

A nice profile from Bloomberg on Jerry Snyder, who is currently developing the Vermont Towers and several other large projects in the LA area.

Some highlights:

1601 Vine Street (8 stories/107,000 sq ft office) is scheduled for a September groundbreaking.



The Museum Square Office Tower (13 stories/250,000 sq ft office) is being built-to-suit for an unspecified client. Right across the street from the La Brea Tar Pits.

[ChelseaFC]

Does anyone have any project info/timelines/renderings on the Kaiser Sunset expansion?

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Kaiser is doing more expansion? that campus is huge. I welcome it though, since they are quality buildings

[ChelseaFC]

Here we go.

http://easthollywood.net/dev/new-hos...tal-expansion/

It's been awhile since I've driven that stretch of Sunset, so I wasn't sure how far along they were.

[Munchitup]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Does anyone have any project info/timelines/renderings on the Kaiser Sunset expansion?

Do you mean the main hospital? Because they are just about finished with the building itself and are now working mostly on landscaping details. My daughter was born in the brand-new portions of the hospital just a few weeks ago - it looks great on the inside and the outside. The main difference I noticed is that the building is further set back from the street with a plaza and patient pick up / drop off point.

Navigating the outside of the complex is a little hectic right now because a lot of the sidewalk is still closed down for construction - it was pretty round-about to get to the front of the hospital entrance from the parking garage and the retail along Vermont.

Beat me to the article

[Munchitup]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Kaiser is doing more expansion? that campus is huge. I welcome it though, since they are quality buildings

Not so much an expansion as a renovation / re-tooling.

[ChelseaFC]

Originally Posted by Munchitup

Not so much an expansion as a renovation / re-tooling.

A much-needed modernization is probably the best way to put it. Those buildings at Edgemont/Sunset looked like something I saw on TV during the last Bosnian War.

[bobbyv]

Not sure if this has been posted:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,7281506.story

[Illithid Dude]

Originally Posted by bobbyv

Not sure if this has been posted:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...,7281506.story

The project was posted a while back, but the operator of the hotel was not known. If the James is going into this space, does that mean that the other hotel proposal farther west down sunset is now dead?

[blackcat23]

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.c...-park-tod.html

Metro and McCormack Baron Salazar are scheduled to start work on the second phase of the MacArthur Park TOD before the end of the month. 81 affordable units, 17,000 sq ft of ground floor retail. Directly above the station, in-between Alvarado Street and Westlake Avenue.

[Muji]

Nice catch, blackcat23. I'd just about completely forgotten that phase 2 of the MacArthur Park TOD was going to happen. Anything to kickstart some new development in that area is good news.

[inSaeculaSaeculorum]

I wish they build that on top of the macarthur park station entrance rather than behind it

[Muji]

Originally Posted by inSaeculaSaeculorum

I wish they build that on top of the macarthur park station entrance rather than behind it

I believe that the second phase builds on top of the rather useless parking lot and drop-off area and replaces about half of the existing plaza. At least, this seems to be true from the last time any conceptual renderings were released for it. This is the one I'm thinking of (from 2010)


Westlake/MacArthur Park T.O.D. par Metro - Los Angeles, sur Flickr

[blackcat23]

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.c...-building.html

34-story high rise apartments planned at 11750 Wilshire Boulevard. 338 feet tall, 376 residential units, 4,700 square feet of retail.

[colemonkee]

And the NIMBY cries about too much traffic should start in 3, 2, ...

[DistrictDirt]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

And the NIMBY cries about too much traffic should start in 3, 2, ...

That's why I love Downtown...5,000 residential units under construction and not a NIMBY in sight.

[DJM19]

Hence why any huge project that instantly levels a NIMBY should be built in DT. Im all for density all over the place, but if it came down to swapping one of those 7 story wood frames for these 30+ story developments elsewhere, it makes more sense.

But I also thing that this tower is a great height up and down Wilshire.

[Illithid Dude]

It's a rare day that a high rise gets built on my side of the 405. Bring it on!

[Wally West]

Originally Posted by DistrictDirt

That's why I love Downtown...5,000 residential units under construction and not a NIMBY in sight.

Weren't there a couple of residents complaining about losing their views? I forget what project it was specifically but we briefly mentioned the article.

[SD_Phil]

Originally Posted by blackcat23

http://buildinglosangeles.blogspot.c...-building.html

34-story high rise apartments planned at 11750 Wilshire Boulevard. 338 feet tall, 376 residential units, 4,700 square feet of retail.
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Less than 10 feet per floor? I know residential floors are shorter than commercial floors but, does this seem low to anyone else?