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I'm liking the new renderings here, especially the color palette, and how the project interfaces with the historic art deco parking garage/retail space. If they're already reusing the old garage space, I'm a bit puzzled why they're keeping the surface parking though. Seems like it'd be better served as a public park or open space, or a multipurpose patio for community events. Not a fatal flaw but definitely a missed opportunity there.

New name, new renderings for big apartment complex rising at 8th & Western
Western Station is on track to open in late 2023
AUGUST 03, 2022, 9:30AMSTEVEN SHARP

The Jamison Services development now rising at the intersection of 8th Street and Western Avenue in Koreatown has fresh renderings and a new name, architecture firm KTGY announced this week.

The project, now dubbed "Western Station," is now taking shape on an L-shaped site at the southeast corner of the intersection, wrapping the historic Pellissier Square Garage. The new construction will consist of an eight-story edifice featuring 230 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments atop 13,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space, while the former garage will be retained as mix of retail, residential amenities, and a portion of the 176 parking stalls planned within the project.

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“KTGY is returning the structure to its original patterned façade that marched up, following the form of the garage ramping,” says Keith McCloskey, an associate principal with the firm. “It will now fold into the new building to create a bold T-formation.”

The new construction also has references to its vintage neighbor, which opened in the 1930s.

“The new building is clad in a smooth, tight, blue-gray that’s compatible with the cooler tones of the nearby, historically connected Wiltern Tower,” said McCloskey. “But it takes on its own new identity by subtly introducing the Wiltern’s patinated green, known locally as Pellissier Green. Although the new building is contemporary in style, the vertical balcony slots with angled planes help to capture surrounding Art Deco history.”

Completion of Western Station is expected in October 2023, according to a landing page on the Jamison website.

https://la.urbanize.city/post/new-na...ng-8th-western