LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[Easy]

Originally Posted by Blesha13

https://planning.lacity.org/pdiscase...8347c32f18/pdd

A little more than a year ago..

Yeah, the Huizar scandal ended that tower.

Hmmm...if this is what you're getting at, I wonder if the earlier poster meant this tower - Shenzhen - when they mentioned the "Zen tower". Two different projects with similar names.

[citywatch]

this doesn't add much from the link posted by wisheye, but it's from a media firm long associated with the movie industry...

hollywoodreporter.com

East End Studios filed a development application on Monday with the City of Los Angeles for a new production complex in the area, which features 16 soundstages, class-A office space across four buildings, and studio support uses on an approximately 15-acre lot at the corner of 6th and Alameda Streets. The current site is occupied by a pair of produce warehouse buildings and surface parking.

East End has hired international architecture firm GRIMSHAW (which has previously worked on the Los Angeles Union Station master plan, LAX Airport Metro connector transit station and the Santa Monica Arts Complex) for the campus’ design, with Studio MLA leading the landscape design.

East End Studios’ Arts District campus will create 321,520 square feet of studio space across the sounstages, along with 292,310 square feet of creative office, and 106,570 square feet of production support space. Vehicular parking totaling 1,327 spaces will be primarily located underground beneath the site. The project will also include an abundance of bicycle parking spaces and be designed to encourage employees to use the many existing and planned transportation options in the area.

The news comes after Los Angeles’ existing soundstages have struggled to keep up with production demands amid the streaming content boom, and new and existing companies have jumped into the studio construction game to cash in on the overflowing Hollywood business.

^ I saw a vid not long ago about how london...but also atlanta, toronto, vancouver....is grabbing a lot of the entertainment business. Most big movies & lots of TV shows nowadays don't have as many ties to the LA area, much less dtla, as they used to, so I don't know what's really going on. But if more entertainment business is going to be in dt, that's one more reason why the subway between dtla & around UCLA has to be completed asap. however, to be worth anything, it needs to be kept safe & clean.

[citywatch]

why equity residential of chicago didn't at least clear out this corner is due to what? They had a demo permit from LA bldg & safety in early 2020 (or early 2021, don't recall which), but never did anything with it:

https://youtu.be/uEvs5r8ElJA?t=2483

instead the small taco food stand is still there, now tagged all over, with a few weedy palm trees around it. Not a good look for ppl passing by on their way to Grand central mkt or Angel's flight.

[citywatch]

the renovation of the bldg next to the tower theater appears to have been completed....

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as for using the name of a certain city on the east coast as a reference point...where you have to pay super high rents for exactly what?...may not be really a good thing...

https://www.youtube.com/c/CashJordan

^ yes, dtla doesn't have the hustle, bustle & super talls of certain other cities, but do such things offset the negatives? whoa.... But to each his own.

[WonderlandPark2]

I'm thinking Brookfield came out at about 680'
Photo from Elysian Park, and both towers should be in the same plane (not much closer or farther away, good for equalizing the heights)

(777 Fig @ 325' so at 54 floors average is 13'-6' floor heights, so around 680')

[Zapatan]

Originally Posted by Easy

Yeah, the Huizar scandal ended that tower.

What ever happened to him?

I'm curious what will become of the site. LA needs something new and exciting.

[iboardsnow13]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Shy has 3 land parcels set for development that he has been trying to sell since he would never develop them. Olympic and Broadway, 6th and Main and the parking lot on Hill behind the Ace hotel. They are all important parcels but have remained stagnant for years due to ineptitude and greed.

Also, a super high end X pot restaurant is coming to the Wilshire Grand, leasing 8000 sq ft. Its chef is Michelin rated too

Do you have a source for the Wilshire Grand news?

[citywatch]

therealdeal.com

After more than a decade of flying below the radar, Clark Hotel, one of the Los Angeles properties associated with the powerful New York-based Chetrit real estate family, has come under public criticism. Advocacy group Housing is a Human Right, a division of nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, ran a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, urging the city of Los Angeles to open the vacant Clark Hotel at 426 South Hill Street in the city’s Downtown, to the unhoused. The Clark is owned by a Chetrit family business

The Chetrits reacted to the advertisement in a characteristic way: Silence. The press-shy family made no public statement. It’s standard operating procedure for the developers and property owners known for making big deals out of the spotlight.

As a rule, the Chetrit Group is satisfied to bide its time. There have been few signs of any effort to develop the 109-year-old hotel. Currently, it’s unclear how many units are in the hotel. The Property Shark listing site put it at 500 units, but a document filed with the Los Angeles Planning Commission said that the building had 348 units. There were plans to turn the Clark Hotel into an operating hospitality business. In 2013, Clark Street Realty Associates applied for a conditional use permit to sell alcohol at proposed lobby bars and a banquet facility. In 2014, a planning commission group unanimously approved the permit. The approval took place when it was in vogue to sink a lot of money into remodeling early 20th century buildings in downtown Los Angeles and position them into luxury hotels.

The Ace Hotel company was the first in a string of luxe hotels to open in Downtown Los Angeles in the past decade. It made a big splash in January 2014 when it made an official debut in a remodeled early 20th century building less than a mile away from the Clark.

Several other prominent downtown Los Angeles hotels that opened in the past decade were The Proper, The Hoxton and the Freehand. There was also the NoMad, which was located in a former Bank of Italy building owned by The Chetrit Group. Located at 649 South Olive Street, it was sold to the Sydell Group for $39 million, according to media accounts. The NoMad opened in 2018 and shuttered in 2020, due to the pandemic. In 2022 it opened under different management as Hotel Per La.

Joseph Chetrit also led plans to turn giant Downtown building The Trinity Auditorium into a luxury hotel at 851 South Grand Avenue. As late as 2019, there was a news report which said plans to open a hotel at The Clark were going forward.

The bull market for hotels in Downtown Los Angeles probably has passed, said Alan Reay, president of Atlas Hospitality Group, a Newport Beach-based hotel brokerage and consulting company.

“I do not think anyone would look to add more luxe hotel rooms in Downtown L.A., until they see that the business market has returned to pre-COVID levels,” Reay wrote in an email. “The fact that so many businesses still have employees working remotely and we need to see the full return of meeting and convention business, will continue to hamper developers looking to add new luxe rooms.”

Turning the clark from vacant to homeless might be a case of ppl cutting off their nose in order to spite their face. Or a case of making a bad situation even worse.

[pwright1]

[pwright1]

[scania]

Nice pics!

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Originally Posted by iboardsnow13

Do you have a source for the Wilshire Grand news?

Sure, here you go. It's been all over. Restaurant is called Niku X and will open in a couple months

https://hospitalitydesign.com/news/f...x-los-angeles/

[citywatch]

This vid gives a good rundown of new, higher priced housing in dtla, such as Perla on broadway...

https://youtu.be/v_qIf1NRFK8

^ Those 8 different apts are all fairly new, come with amenities more common in newer devlpt, & just about all of them rent for a bit less than similar units do in a place like this...actually many of the following apts are often much older & even sometimes smaller & funkier too.

https://www.youtube.com/c/CashJordan

^ that town is famous for busy sidewalks & super talls, where ppl say 'I love my city!' However, those 3 things lose something in translation when housing & pricing...& lack of amenities....are similar to what that youtuber is often filming.

dtla may not have the most bustling sidewalks or a lot or any super talls, but it has a friendlier vibe....due partly to it being a younger city but also because it has a Mediterranean type climate. dtla is still pricey, but not at quite the ridiculous level found on, for example, the east coast or up north. Right now, I'll gladly take dtla. Even more so when it's surrounded by this...

https://www.youtube.com/c/JSOCAL1

But, ok, ok, different strokes for different folks.

[scania]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Sure, here you go. It's been all over. Restaurant is called Niku X and will openhttp://https://www.dropbox.com/s/yib..._7555.mp4?dl=0 in a couple months

https://hospitalitydesign.com/news/f...x-los-angeles/

This is what is making DTLA a great place to live, work, shop, and play. I would’ve never imagined the things going on in DTLA 10 to 15 years ago. I lived in NYC, Atlanta, SF, and Vegas. All of my friends have fallen in-love with DTLA and the proximity to other cool spots of LA. When you live in these other cities…you realize how special DTLA has become. There was an article a few years ago about how great to live in DTLA and that it was one of the best kept secrets. It was like a Vogue magazine I believe. When you do hear people try to trash DTLA, and that’s common with SF, and NYC too…they don’t realize, how ignorant and foolish they sound. Just look at this stunning view!!!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yibu5n6c85..._7555.mp4?dl=0

[colemonkee]

That surface lot immediately east of the Mitsui tower is screaming for a tower of it's own. And if they could incorporate the parking garage to the north, they could go pretty tall, being that close to the subway station.

[scania]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

That surface lot immediately east of the Mitsui tower is screaming for a tower of it's own. And if they could incorporate the parking garage to the north, they could go pretty tall, being that close to the subway station.

Soooo true…I meant to comment on that parcel.

[LAisthePlace]

Olympic + Hill today. Big ole hole in the ground!

[craigs]

Thanks to prwight1 and LAisthePlace for posting your photos!

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by WonderlandPark2

I'm thinking Brookfield came out at about 680'
Photo from Elysian Park, and both towers should be in the same plane (not much closer or farther away, good for equalizing the heights)

(777 Fig @ 325' so at 54 floors average is 13'-6' floor heights, so around 680')

Brookfield (now Beaudry) might have a slightly lower base level than 777, so the 695' height estimate might still be correct.

[202_Cyclist]

dezeen has a good article with several renderings about the Angles Landing skyscraper.

Los Angeles' third tallest skyscraper to be a "modern interpretation of an Italian hill town"

By Ben Dreith
Aug. 19, 2022


Rendering courtesy of dezeen.



Rendering courtesy of dezeen.


"US studio Handel Architects has designed the Angels Landing skyscraper in Los Angeles, which will be the third tallest building in the city and the tallest in the US to be built by Black developers.

Set to be built on a site between Hill Street and California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, the development will have two mixed-use towers, street-front retail and restaurants, as well as a multi-storey outdoor park that integrates Angel's Flight, a trolley built in 1901..."

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/08/19/an...es-skyscraper/