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Old Posted Mar 18, 2022, 6:48 PM
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That thing is massive. Almost a whole city block. I like that it wraps around those apartments in the back or at least it appears to. The article doesn't mention height but I'd say around 200 feet.
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[QUOTE=ChelseaFC;9571365]Grammy winning producer announces plans for $500 million office and recording studio complex at Sunset and Highland

https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...tudios-offices

This with the Crossroads development
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Old Posted Mar 18, 2022, 8:47 PM
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Grammy winning producer announces plans for $500 million office and recording studio complex at Sunset and Highland

https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...tudios-offices

This with the Crossroads development
This is an incredible proposal. Beautiful architecture and great mix of uses.

Now I want just one of these Hollywood mega-projects to break ground!

I don't care if it is this, Crossroads, Palladium, Millenium, The Star, Yucca-Argyle Tower, Artisan Hollywood, Sunset Gower Expansion, 6400 Sunset.
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Old Posted Mar 18, 2022, 11:45 PM
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Fantastic for Hollywood and LA, especially on that corner, which looks like shit. What a drastic change for Hollywood is these mega projects happen
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Old Posted Mar 19, 2022, 1:49 AM
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Whoa!
This came out of nowhere!

Sunset is going to become so amazing in this decade.
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Old Posted Mar 19, 2022, 1:51 AM
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There's going to be a day when tourists stop shitting on Hollywood lol.

It's going to be one of the best neighborhoods in America at some point.
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Old Posted Mar 19, 2022, 4:12 AM
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You guys beat me to it!

Grammy winner plans eye-catching music studio complex in Hollywood

Roger Vincent
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2022

Developers led by a Grammy Award-winning artist plan to transform a prominent corner of Sunset Boulevard by building a $500-million office and recording center that would be one of the largest Black-owned enterprises in the Hollywood area.

Plans for the 13-story indoor-outdoor complex are to be submitted to the city Friday by Philip Lawrence, the owner of storied Hollywood recording studio Record Plant, in partnership with entertainment business manager Thomas St. John.

Lawrence, who won eight Grammys as a songwriter and record producer, has contracted with established real estate figures to build the nearly two-acre project at Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue, across the street from Hollywood High School.

The complex was designed by HKS, the architecture firm that designed SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, where the Super Bowl was played in February.

Lawrence’s goal is to meld a top-flight recording studio with offices to be rented to people in the entertainment business. There would be public spaces including an auditorium and an amphitheater where visitors could hear concerts in a landscaped setting high above the street.

“We want to create a destination where artists can experience, evolve and have access to all aspects of entertainment,” Lawrence said. “So we’re building state-of-the art recording facilities for music, film, composing and all of the musical needs around production.”

Lawrence, who has collaborated with such singers as Bruno Mars and Adele, hopes to build on the success of his nearby Record Plant, where chance conversations in the hallway or communal kitchen can sometimes lead to artistic collaborations.

“The next thing you know,” Lawrence said, “there is a big song out with Beyonce, Ariana Grande and Frank Ocean and people are like, ‘How did that happen?’”

That particular collaboration hasn’t occurred yet, but Lawrence plans to lay on luxury features that popular musicians may find appealing. Top-floor recording studios with views of the Hollywood Hills and downtown L.A. would have kitchens, entertainment space and sleeping quarters.

“You could essentially live here while you are cutting tracks,” architect Heath May of HKS said. “The mission is to increase creativity.”

The complex is intended to have some of the highest-profile recording studios in the industry with pre- and post-production facilities, along with so much other activity that the campus was likened to “an Ant Farm” by May’s colleague architect Greg Verabian.

The largest component would be 430,000 square feet of offices for rent, perhaps to several entertainment firms in search of a Hollywood address or to one large tenant that may want to brand the building with its company name. Office occupants would have access to outdoor landscaped terraces that could be used for work or during off-duty hours looking down on concerts at the amphitheater on the park-like fifth-floor rooftop.

In charge of getting the project built is developer David Malmuth, who oversaw development of the Hollywood & Highland entertainment and office complex (now known as Ovation Hollywood), where the annual Academy Awards are held.

The outdoor spaces are designed by the studio of Oakland landscape architect Walter Hood, former chair of landscape architecture at UC Berkeley, whose projects include Broad Museum Plaza in downtown Los Angeles.

At street level would be a restaurant, a coffeehouse and a 500-seat auditorium that could be used for concerts, tenant events, public meetings or educational gatherings.

“We see this place as being an immersive playground for students, artists, creators and innovators of all types while also creating more opportunities in the entertainment industry,” said St. John, who is chief executive of Cmnty Culture, the Black-owned music and media enterprise he launched with Lawrence in 2020 that would operate the new studios.

The planned Hollywood development is dubbed Cmnty Culture Campus, though that name could be changed later to reflect the identity of a large office tenant.

Lawrence and St. John intend to engage students at Hollywood High, which has magnet programs in performing arts and new media.

“We hope to build sister programs,” Lawrence said, that might include instruction, internships and master classes with entertainment professionals. “However we can bring kids to understand how the entertainment industry works,” he said. “Education is very important to the team and me.”

The campus would have underground parking for 1,000 vehicles. It would replace commercial buildings, parking lots and a plant nursery. Residential buildings on the block would remain intact, the developers said.

Rendering of the planned new entrance to what is now Warner Bros. Ranch on Hollywood Way in Burbank.

Among the commercial buildings on the site is Live House, a performance venue with dance studios that has been closed but is now in escrow to Cmnty Culture, Malmuth said. The developers plan to temporarily reopen Live House as they plan the new campus.

Demand for office space in the years ahead is uncertain as many businesses reevaluate their space needs after working from home became common during the COVID-19 pandemic, Malmuth acknowledged, but technology and entertainment producers have been among the companies still expanding their office footprints.

Occupants of the campus would not necessarily be in the music business. Streaming entertainment provider Netflix is the largest office tenant in Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard is home to multiple movie and recording studios.

Last year, another developer announced plans for a $500-million glass-skinned office high-rise on Sunset near Gower Street, also intended to serve the entertainment industry.

Sunset, which has seen a revival of entertainment uses in recent decades, “has become arguably the most important content creation corridor in the world,” Malmuth said.

Still, city approval of the project is not a foregone conclusion. The process commonly takes 18 months or longer.

“We don’t take for granted that we’re going to be able to get entitlements,” he said, but “we think we’ve got a project that is extremely attractive both physically and in terms of job creation.”

If approved, construction of the campus would take about three years. Lawrence hopes it will eventually become a Hollywood fixture.

“This is our love letter to Hollywood,” he said, “to hopefully bring the community together for generations to come.”
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Old Posted Mar 19, 2022, 9:36 PM
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I'm going to revise my estimate for the height to 250+ ft , and yeah Sunset is going to be crazy in a few years, especially if The Star goes forward.
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Fantastic proposal. I drive by that intersection all the time and constantly fantasize about what could be. And now my dreams are reality. Between this and the Hollywood Crossroads project, the area is going to look incredible. Shame it'll probably be a decade before dirt gets pushed.
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Old Posted Mar 22, 2022, 4:55 AM
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Bigger renderings and another article on the proposal for Sunset and Highland:

Office and production space planned at Sunset & Highland

The HKS-designed project would rise up to 13 stories in height

Steven Sharp
Urbanize Los Angeles
March 21, 2022



Entertainment and media company CMNTY Culture has big plans for the
intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood.

CMNTY Culture, led by Grammy winning producer Philip Lawrence and
business manager Thomas St. John, announced plans last week to redevelop
a two-acre site at the northeast corner of the intersection with a 500,000-square-foot mixed-use complex dubbed the CMNTY Culture Campus.



The project is being designed by HKS and landscape designer Hood Design
Studio. According to an official website, the CMNTY Culture Campus would
include:
  • 50,000 square feet of music studio/production space
  • 430,000 square feet of creative office space
  • 4,400 square feet of retail space
  • 10,000 square feet of artist hospitality space
  • 10,000 square feet of education and performance space
  • 500-seat outdoor performance venue
  • Additionally, plans call for an open-air terrace deck at the building's fifth floor.

“The entertainment industry is experiencing a time of unparalleled
excitement and change, bringing about an opportunity to reimagine the
landscape upon which content is created and consumed,” said Lawrence,
owner of the Record Plant, in a statement. “Now, we live in a new era where
creatives and their audiences seek opportunities to collaborate and interact,
not just in the digital sphere, but in-person. Content creators need a
physical epicenter, a place that celebrates their work and the power of
community. CMNTY Culture Campus will be a place where creative people will
want to hang out with like-minded individuals and experience something
special.”



The campus is billed as a "first-of-its-kind development," and one of the
largest Black-owned enterprises in the Hollywood community.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the project is budgeted at $500 million,
and would feature buildings up to 13 stories in height, as well as parking for
more than 1,000 vehicles. A precise timeline for CMNTY Culture Campus has
not been announced.

The project joins a number of large office complexes envisioned for the
stretch of Sunset Boulevard between Highland and the US-101 Freeway,
including the neighboring Crossroads Hollywood development, which
reportedly secured $485-million in construction financing for a mix of offices and production space in late 2021.
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I love this so much. Koreatown could use so many more of these. 😍

https://urbanize.city/la/post/22-sto...wn-parking-lot
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That's quite nice, and Hanson LA does solid work (see Concerto, Perla). That area's cluster is starting to span north and south a bit, with the Holland Partners 38-story tower at 7th and New Hampshire (just two blocks away) already making a pretty significant impact. Driving back from downtown on the 10 this weekend, it appeared to already be the tallest in the immediate vicinity, and cladding was about halfway up.
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Very very nice. They did great work on the Perla project so im hopeful this one ends up looking like the rendering.
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I'll just go ahead and post the article with the photos of the new Koreatown Proposal!

22-story apartment tower planned for Koreatown parking lot

HansonLA is designing the new high-rise just north of Wilshire

Steven Sharp
Urbanize Los Angeles
March 22, 2022



A small surface parking lot located just north of Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown is slated for redevelopment with a mixed-use, high-rise complex, per an application submitted to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.



The proposed project, which would rise at 636-646 S. Berendo Street, would consist of a new 22-story edifice featuring 343 studio and one-bedroom apartments above a two-level, 45-car subterranean parking garage. According to the application, the studio units would average 380 square feet in size, while the one-bedroom units would range between 585 and 885 square feet in size.

Project applicant Berendo, Inc., managed by Wayne R. Johnson, is requesting the approval of Transit Oriented Communities development incentives for the project, permitting greater density and floor area than allowed by zoning rules, while also allowing for reduced open space, setbacks, and parking. In exchange, 38 of the new apartments would be reserved for rent as affordable housing at the extremely low-income level.

HansonLA is designing the tower, which architectural plans indicated would rise to a maximum height of 265 feet above street level.

"The rhythmic articulation of the facades is appropriately scaled to create a pattern over the facade that doesn’t become too transparent in respect to the surrounding context," reads an architectural narrative. The building fenestration is primarily designed with corner windows at the residential units to create depth across the north and south facades while maximizing the interior views out to the Los Angeles skyline and Hollywood Hills"

The tower, in addition to housing, will include a 7,210-square-foot rooftop deck, as well as a fitness center, a library, a business center, and a lounge in its interior. Plans also call for retaining more than 33,000 square feet of existing commercial space in a two-story building to the south of the tower, which is part of the project site, but not intended to undergo changes.

The proposed project adds to a recent string of new high-rise developments near the Wilshire/Vermont subway station in Koreatown, following a 38-story building now rising one block southeast at the intersection of 7th Street and New Hampshire Avenue, as well a 40-story tower slated for the intersection of 6th Street and Shatto Place.
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Love this one. The design is excellent
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Speaking of Koreatown, the now rising 38 story 7th and New Hampshire tower is making major impact on the growing Koreatown skyline.

A couple views from around town.



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Neat projects for LA, but I just had to register to ask a simple question about your signature, since it's so patently absurd.

You're being satirical right?

If not, then I'm sure there will be no issue with my signature, since hyperbole is acceptable by precedent
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From LA Reddit, a great pic of downtown Beverly Hills and Century City:

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L.A. City Council green lights Cedars-Sinai expansion

The hospital is building a new patient tower at its main campus

Steven Sharp
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March 24, 2022

A proposal to expand Cedars-Sinai's flagship hospital campus in Beverly Grove has scored another key sign off.

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Council voted unanimously to approve a zone change and adopt the findings an environmental study conducted for the project, which would rise at the southwest corner of Beverly and San Vicente Boulevards. After razing a parking lot and small medical clinic, Cedars plans to build a new 405,000-square-foot tower with 203 patient beds.

Designed by Los Angeles-based CO Architects, the new tower would stand nine stories and rise roughly 176 feet in height. Architectural plans show the building as a contemporary mid-rise structure clad in stone, masonry, aluminum, steel, and glass.

AHBE|MIG is the project's landscape architect, designing a series of landscape decks and terraces within the new building.

The project is the result of Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act, a 1983 state law which requires that all of California's acute care hospitals should be able to withstand a major earthquake by the year 2030. Hospitals across Los Angeles must be either retrofitted or rebuilt to comply with the law, or cease to provide acute care service.

In the case of the Cedars-Sinai campus, the new patient tower will allow the hospital to retrofit its North and South Patient Towers and Professional Tower, all of which are nearly 50 years in age. Cedars has determined that replacing all three buildings would be prohibitively expensive, while a retrofit would reduce the hospital's capacity during the course of construction. By adding a new tower prior to commencing the retrofit, Cedars could continue operating at current levels during construction, cutting the timeline of a project that would otherwise take up to 20 years to complete.

The expansion of the main campus is the third large seismic retrofit project for Cedars. In the San Fernando Valley, Cedars has partnered with Providence Health Systems on an expansion and revamp of the Providence-Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center, which is currently under construction. On the Westside, Cedars has broken ground on a replacement facility for the aging Marina Del Rey Hospital.
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