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Old Posted Feb 7, 2013, 10:41 PM
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Yeah. I refrain from posting most development news there. We have to accept that a majority of the people aren't as interested in development news so they just resort to a knee-jerk reaction which is either: "OMG THE TRAFFIC IS GONNA BE SOOO BAD WITH THIS NEW PROJECT!!" or "Palmer's work around DTLA is awesome!"
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This is probably a bit of a stretch for the LA Metro forum. I also posted this in the Orange County thread in the Pacific West regional forum but nobody seems to look there.

Pimco is building a 20-floor headquarters in Newport Beach (Fashion Island/Newport Center). My cousin took this photo a few months ago.



The Irvine Company is also building a 19-floor building for their headquarters.

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Old Posted Feb 8, 2013, 1:08 AM
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^I pass by that ugly shoe box frequently. I can't believe they still build shit like that.
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I took this from my car while driving, but I noticed that the small lot ordinance project going up on Melrose and Grammercy (just west of Western), has broken ground, and seems to be U/C:

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The former Metropolitan Water District building on Sunset and Alvarado looks to be making good progress on its journey from abandoned office block to 92 market-rate condos. Via Eastsider LA comes word that the 1963 William Pereira-designed building is in a rather immodest state of undress and has a new name: it will be called 1111 Sunset. Once developers Linear City (the company behind the Toy Factory and Biscuit Company Lofts) get done with it, the seven-story building will feature "a new facade of glass and light-colored materials," balconies fashioned out of the original horizontal platforms, and a ground-floor cafe. Getting to this point has not been easy. Vacant since 1993, the building has passed through the hands of a church, a developer who wanted to convert the space to senior housing, and another developer who wanted it for condos before it landed in the hands of Linear City, who bought the fully-entitled project for $6.8 million in 2011. If all goes according to plan, the building will open in February 2014.
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Old Posted Feb 8, 2013, 6:27 AM
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Old Spaghetti Factory, yesterday.

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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 12:01 AM
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this is probably a bit of a stretch for the la metro forum. I also posted this in the orange county thread in the pacific west regional forum but nobody seems to look there.

Pimco is building a 20-floor headquarters in newport beach (fashion island/newport center). My cousin took this photo a few months ago.



the irvine company is also building a 19-floor building for their headquarters.
where are they building the 19 story tower?
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 12:02 AM
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^I pass by that ugly shoe box frequently. I can't believe they still build shit like that.
I live 10 minutes away and pass by there every week.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 2:59 AM
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The Vermont 2/8/13

Progress at the Vermont has sped up since they finished the podium. Currently, they're putting up about one floor per week. At this rate, the towers will be topped out by late summer.



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^That's because LA is exploding with construction once again!
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where are they building the 19 story tower?
It will be at 520 Newport Center Drive.

http://lansner.ocregister.com/2012/0...ear-hq/166511/
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It will be at 520 Newport Center Drive.

http://lansner.ocregister.com/2012/0...ear-hq/166511/
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 8:25 PM
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It will be at 520 Newport Center Drive.

http://lansner.ocregister.com/2012/0...ear-hq/166511/
I was looking at the image on that page trying to decide which one they were tearing down when I realized that it was the rendering for the new building...
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 9:46 PM
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This picture shows just how massive the project is. I wish we had a good dozen of these in downtown. It definitely filled a gap and it's a great addition since it's right next to the metro station.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 9:49 PM
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I drove by the Wilshire/Vermont towers under construction and was amazed by the scale of that development. Certainly one of the biggest construction projects in the city since the Ritz Carlton.
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Old Posted Feb 9, 2013, 10:43 PM
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I was looking at the image on that page trying to decide which one they were tearing down when I realized that it was the rendering for the new building...
Apparently, it's a building they've been planning since the sixties, which explains the architecture (though I actually like it).
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Regarding the discussion on the previous page about hollywood and downtown, there's a couple of obvious differences between the two: One is that Hollywood always had Hollywood Hills, one of the wealthier and most desirable hoods in LA, directly above it. Some of that money had to trickle down. Downtown on the other hand was a low income neighborhood surrounded by other low income neighborhoods. The other is that even during Hollywood's nadir in the 70's/80's/90's it was still a tourist destination because of its name. Downtown never was. I remember in the 80's it was always funny to us kids watching tourists wander hollywood blvd amid the hookers, looking completely terrified. But buses of them still came every day.

Someone also mentioned nimbys in hollywood. One slight correction, they are not in hollywood per se, they are in the previously mentioned Hills, which is a different neighborhood with its own neighborhood council, etc. For example, i believe most of the people suing the city right now for the approval of the new community plan that allows for skyscrapers like these millennium towers, live way up in the lake hollywood area.
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Drove down Sunset last night and it looks like they are in the process of tearing down that old Favela's supermarket or whatever it was called on Sunset and Western.
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Old Posted Feb 10, 2013, 8:22 PM
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Drove down Sunset last night and it looks like they are in the process of tearing down that old Favela's supermarket or whatever it was called on Sunset and Western.
Fallas Paredes? Nice freudian slip there.

Glad to hear things are finally moving with that Target project. That intersection needs help.
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