HomeDiagramsDatabaseMapsForum About
     

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Pacific West


Reply

 
Thread Tools Display Modes
     
     
  #81  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 1:39 PM
LACityRat's Avatar
LACityRat LACityRat is offline
Downtown LA Change Agent
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15
More Recent L.A. Live Rendering . . .

Whhops! That first post of L.A. Live was old - showing the bridge across Olympic to a building housing all the ballrooms. This one is more correct in that it shows the bridge crossing Georgia St. from the hotel to the Ballrooms. The ballrooms are sandwiched in between the Convention Center Expansion wing and the 15-screen Cinema Complex that fronts Olympic in between Georgia and the 110 Freeway.



All that said, I still don't think the orientation of the Hotel Tower is correct. More to come.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #82  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 6:39 PM
Steve2726's Avatar
Steve2726 Steve2726 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: L.A.
Posts: 482
After seeing the above render, I looked for more info regarding the convention center expansion. I didn't find much, but here are some feasibility study findings. They include L.A. Live but they are a few years old. More info here-

http://www.lmnarchitects.com/project...?prj=75&mkt=3#






Last edited by Steve2726; May 15, 2007 at 6:45 PM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #83  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 6:49 PM
colemonkee's Avatar
colemonkee colemonkee is offline
Ridin' into the sunset
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 9,093
Good stuff, LACityRat! Are you working on the project? Is that how you get access to these renders? If so, keep 'em comin!
__________________
"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."

Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #84  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 9:45 PM
LAMetroGuy's Avatar
LAMetroGuy LAMetroGuy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Long Beach
Posts: 3,148
LACityRat, thanks for the new rendering! Amazing! I'm glad you joined this group and look forward to seeing your posts. The LA threads need more folk like you! Thanks again!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #85  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 11:28 PM
LACityRat's Avatar
LACityRat LACityRat is offline
Downtown LA Change Agent
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15
Thumbs up 717 W Olympic Tower . . .

Sooooo . . . ya know that tower at the northwest corner of Olympic and Figueroa that looks like it's about to top-off? Below is a rendering of what the tower will look like at night. It's going to be an apartment complex right across the street from L.A. Live. I wanna get a party pad there. WoooooHooooo! Oh yeah . . . designed by RTKL.

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #86  
Old Posted May 15, 2007, 11:34 PM
LAMetroGuy's Avatar
LAMetroGuy LAMetroGuy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Long Beach
Posts: 3,148
If you get a party pad up there, I want an invite!!! Great rendering at night, looks very nice... the hat even looks better at night. Thanks for another great post!
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #87  
Old Posted May 16, 2007, 10:16 AM
LosAngelesBeauty's Avatar
LosAngelesBeauty LosAngelesBeauty is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,610
New Rendering of Park Fifth with a different vantage point:





__________________
DTLA Rising
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #88  
Old Posted May 16, 2007, 12:45 PM
LACityRat's Avatar
LACityRat LACityRat is offline
Downtown LA Change Agent
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15
Thumbs up Meruelo/Maddux Tower at NWC of 9th & Flower . . .

Not sure how old this one is, but it gives you an idea as to what the condominium tower will look like. Saw a veritable army of Cemex cement trucks pouring cement into the hole the other weekend. Very impressive.

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #89  
Old Posted May 16, 2007, 1:55 PM
Steve2726's Avatar
Steve2726 Steve2726 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: L.A.
Posts: 482
Welcome to the forum LACityRat. If you haven't already, please take a look at the Downtown Project Rundown thread in the City Compilations forum located here:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=130839

Thanks to Colemonkee, we have a great thread there with recent renders of all projects. Please add to the list if you have anything new.

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #90  
Old Posted May 16, 2007, 4:35 PM
colemonkee's Avatar
colemonkee colemonkee is offline
Ridin' into the sunset
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 9,093
LACityRat, that's an old design of the 717 Flower tower. There's a more recent render in the Downtown LA Rundown Thread Steve mentioned.
__________________
"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."

Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #91  
Old Posted May 18, 2007, 9:28 AM
edluva edluva is offline
BANNED
 
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,134
the new la live hotel is slick. i like the old 717 design better. and i don't like how the entire stretch of fig is becoming a 3-5 story mesa. damn platforms and gaps are screwing up south park's skyline. the rest of la live is a big waste of land, and would better suit some strawberry field adjacent disneyland if you ask me.

ps: great renders. we need more people who can post renders. keep up the positive vibes.

Last edited by edluva; May 18, 2007 at 9:37 AM.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #92  
Old Posted May 18, 2007, 10:10 AM
LosAngelesBeauty's Avatar
LosAngelesBeauty LosAngelesBeauty is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,610
^
__________________
DTLA Rising
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #93  
Old Posted May 18, 2007, 11:18 PM
LAMetroGuy's Avatar
LAMetroGuy LAMetroGuy is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Long Beach
Posts: 3,148
Richard Meruelo's Water World

The Connected Developer Moves Forward on His $120 Million South Park Condo Tower

by Evan George

A 36-story residential skyscraper is growing quickly at 717 W. Ninth St., eclipsing other South Park projects that remain just holes in the ground.

Richard Meruelo has begun construction on his 36-story condominium tower. He plans to build at least three more high-rises in the area, breaking ground on a new one every six months.

Developer Meruelo Maddux Properties prepared the foundation last week, and a crane began stacking a steel base for the green glass building that architects say will shimmer in three shades, from emerald to sea foam. The intent is to imitate a waterfall.

When it's built, the condominium tower will be the tallest residential project in Downtown Los Angeles and the first in a wave of housing high-rises planned for South Park. But perhaps only Richard Meruelo, who remains the largest landholder in Downtown, could call a $120 million investment "an experiment."

"In our office 717 Ninth was considered a petri dish where we were going to test out a bunch of stuff," Meruelo said. At least three taller South Park structures will follow, he said.

The unusual building is Meruelo Maddux's first foray into new residential construction in Los Angeles (the company is nearing completion on a $17 million apartment conversion of a former bank building in the Jewelry District). The site at Ninth and Flower streets sits three long blocks from the Financial District skyline. Expected to open in mid-2009, it's a would-be early giant in the move toward higher density around Staples Center and the future L.A. Live complex.

The project's sudden lurch forward, after two years of planning, also comes as Meruelo Maddux is embroiled in legal problems stemming from two incidents.

In March, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo filed charges against Meruelo for myriad alleged health code violations at the Seventh Street Market, a wholesale produce center the company owns and operates. In April, the city attorney filed 16 criminal charges against Meruelo Maddux related to the firm's allegedly improper demolition of several Downtown buildings in 2005.

Meruelo said the charges would not affect the plans for 717 Ninth, or require any extra precautions.

"Frankly, I don't think there's been any of what I call 'cross-contamination' of any of those other issues with 717. I think we've had unanimous support from elected officials," he said.


'First Domino'


When Meruelo's mother Belinda bought a small dress shop at 323 S. Broadway in 1972, she planted the seed for what would become a politically influential company that now controls more than 5.2 million square feet and 54 properties in and around Downtown. As Richard Meruelo has amassed holdings in Los Angeles and Miami, he has also become a prominent donor, and drew attention when he gave $193,000 in independent expenditures to Antonio Villaraigosa's 2005 mayoral run.

Traditionally, Meruelo's Downtown properties have been industrial sites and wholesale markets, as well as a number of cold storage facilities and vacant lots.

Meruelo, more often referred to in the press as a landowner than a developer, has not been known for building high-rise projects. He said that is about to change.

When Mereulo purchased the site at 717 W. Ninth St. more than two years ago from the CIM Group, it continued to operate as a parking lot, even as other South Park projects began sprouting around it. Directly across the street sits the nearly completed Market Lofts, which will hold the incoming Ralphs supermarket. On the other side of Ninth Street, developer Sonny Astani has been preparing the Concerto tower. Developer South Group has steamed ahead on three mid-rise condo buildings, the Elleven, Luma and Evo.

"It's kind of strange, you'd think they would have moved ahead more rapidly," said Jack Kyser, senior vice president and chief economist of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation. "But maybe delaying it will prove to be a strategic move. It will probably come on the market at a favorable time, when the housing market overall has stabilized."

Meruelo insists it is perfect timing.

"Residential in Downtown is still in the first or second inning of that game," he said. "We didn't want to be a pioneer on a nearly 40-story building."

Having seen smaller projects succeed in South Park, the company has acquired a number of other parcels. Meruelo Maddux said a succession of high-rise buildings will break ground, with a new one every six months.

Still in the planning stage are three nearby towers at 11th and Olive streets, including an unnamed 62-story skyscraper, according to a Meruelo spokesman.

"This is the first domino in a long domino chain," Meruelo said.

Making Waves

In daylight, 717 Ninth will glitter in shades of green. It will turn black opal at night, much like a large body of water.

The slim tower will hold 214 one- and two-bedroom units - just eight on each floor - with four rooftop penthouses capping the 267,339-square-foot structure. Five levels of parking will be enrobed in steel netting and a light installation. Prices for the condominiums have not yet been announced, though other new South Park high-rises have residences beginning in the $400,000s.

The green glass curtain drawn up by Meruelo's in-house architects, Mambo Architecture, will involve three kinds of panels. The watery illusion will continue on the seventh floor pool deck, with a garden of kelp-like ice plants around an infinity pool. The pool's water will flow into a glass-encased installation that falls to the 16,800-square-foot ground-floor retail space, where Meruelo hopes to lure a high-end seafood eatery.

"It's difficult to design a building around a metaphor, because you're always going to run into something that could possibly change the concept," said Mark Moreno, the project manager.

One element that Moreno and the lead architect, Manuel Funes, seized on immediately was a curved spine that runs the height of the building. The design is a conscious attempt to alter the South Park side of Downtown's skyline, both said.

"We have taken a design philosophy to build towers, and every building we're doing is a tower. We believe it contributes more to the skyline," Funes said.

The design team had intended to go higher, in fact, Funes said, but when the company purchased the land, height limits were in place.

"There was a decision to move this forward very fast so going to amend those entitlements would have taken too long," he said.

As is, 717 Ninth would be Downtown's tallest pure residential tower, surpassing 1100 Wilshire (where the 37 stories contain 17 levels of parking) and 717 Olympic, Hanover Company's under-construction 26-story apartment complex at Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Street. But it may hold that title for less than a year.

As Funes points out, "The Chrysler building was the tallest building in the world. For two weeks."

Contact Evan George at evan@downtownnews.com.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #94  
Old Posted May 19, 2007, 12:08 AM
DJM19 DJM19 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 2,518
hmmm...

Are any of the other towers, ones we already know about?
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #95  
Old Posted May 19, 2007, 1:40 AM
fridayinla's Avatar
fridayinla fridayinla is offline
World Citizen
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 467
That's the first article I've seen mention 717 Ninth. Why is it just now making headlines? Richard Meruelo seems like a wild-man developer! Keep 'em coming man! Astani, I hope you're reading this...

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #96  
Old Posted May 20, 2007, 12:13 AM
LACityRat's Avatar
LACityRat LACityRat is offline
Downtown LA Change Agent
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 15
Exclamation Meruelo's Towers . . .

WOW!

That's a lot of supply! New tower every six months . . . that's about 250 - 300 condos every six months. Sounds like Miami all over again.


Hmmmmm . . . I was gonna buy another unit in 1100 Wilshire, but I think I'm gonna wait it out. All this supply means there might be some deals on the horizon. You can pick up a $5m condo in Miami today for a little over a million.
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #97  
Old Posted May 25, 2007, 2:56 AM
204 204 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Terminal City
Posts: 1,171
Those were the days.....

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #98  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2007, 1:11 AM
RAlossi RAlossi is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,573
Linda Lea remodel (now the ImaginAsian Center) moving along nicely...



For reference, from Martin Schall's you-are-here.com:

Reply With Quote
     
     
  #99  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2007, 5:12 PM
fridayinla's Avatar
fridayinla fridayinla is offline
World Citizen
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 467
The Chapman sales office opens this week and they're having an Open House June 9th & 10th. Planned move-ins by Fall 2007, so expect end of the year.

http://www.chapmanflats.com

Obligatory Roof Deck:
Reply With Quote
     
     
  #100  
Old Posted Jun 4, 2007, 5:15 PM
fridayinla's Avatar
fridayinla fridayinla is offline
World Citizen
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Amsterdam
Posts: 467
Chapman Building pricing:

Typical Flats Floors 2-12 (600 – 840 sf )
From $309,000 to $499,000

Premier Corner Flats (#10 and #05) Floors 2-12 (885 – 950 sf )
From $499,000 to $605,000

Penthouse Flats Floor 13 (630 – 945 sf )
From $405,000 to $620,000

*Penthouses have high ceilings
Two-Level Premier Penthouse Flat #1305 (1,310 sf )
See Sales Associate for details
Reply With Quote
     
     
This discussion thread continues

Use the page links to the lower-right to go to the next page for additional posts
 
 
Reply

Go Back   SkyscraperPage Forum > Regional Sections > United States > Pacific West
Forum Jump


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 12:22 AM.

     
SkyscraperPage.com - Archive - Privacy Statement - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.