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31 July 2023
Supportive Housing Designed for Skid Row
Over half a million people in the US are homeless, as per the 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report by the US Department of Housing and...
20 July 2023
Apartment Tower Cleared by LA Planning Commission
The proposed 562,700 square foot 8th, Grand & Hope development is set to rise in Los Angeles and add an additional strip to the downtown...
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17 March 2023
Office Block with Unconventional Exterior Rises in Los Angeles
Hayden Tract, a former manufacturing hub in Culver City, California has been undergoing a transformation over the past four decades with buildings ideated by tech...
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16 December 2022
Los Angeles Mandates All New Buildings Must be All-Electric
Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on 7 December requiring that all new buildings within city limits be constructed all-electric. With this vote,...
11 October 2022
Multifamily Project Receives Funding in Los Angeles
A residential high-rise and four-story luxury hotel has just received development funding in downtown Woodlands Hills, Los Angeles. Existing currently on the site are a...
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29 August 2022
A Proposed Hollywood Office Complex Gets Closer to Approval in Los Angeles
A proposed Hollywood office complex, Sunset + Wilcox, would replace a Staples office supply store and similar commercial buildings at 6450 Sunset Boulevard. The proposed...
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22 August 2022
Two Towers are Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
Set to be built on a site between Hill Street and California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, a proposed development called Angels Landing will have...
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09 August 2022
New Tower is Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
At 700 South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, the Bloc is a proposal for a 53-story tower at a heigh of 216.4 meters (710...
13 May 2022
High-Rise Complex Planned for Landmark Los Angeles Mall
Primestor Development, which owns the approximately 20-acre (8-hectare) Panorama Mall at 8401 N. Van Nuys Boulevard, filed plans in April of 2022 with the City...
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07 February 2022
Talent Agency to Move to New Headquarters in Los Angeles
Los Angeles talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has announced that it will be moving from its current Century City offices at 2000...
03 February 2022
Redevelopment Project to Deliver Housing, Offices, and Retail to Los Angeles Site
Plans to redevelop a storage facility next to Metro's La Cienega/Jefferson Station with housing, offices, and retail are moving forward, with the publication of a...
24 January 2022
One Injured in Fire at Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Building
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a multi-story, high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles Monday morning, 24 January, 2022. The...
14 January 2022
Downtown Los Angeles 24-Story Residential Project Planned
A 13 January 2022 meeting of the Glendale Design Review Board unveiled renderings for Lucia Park, a residential high-rise planned just south of the 134...
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01 December 2021
Second Proposal Submitted for 845 South Olive Street in Los Angeles
Real estate firm, Relevant Group, has filed an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for 845 South Olive Street. The firm is...
02 November 2021
Los Angeles Koreatown High-Rise Project Clears City Council
The Los Angeles City Council has approved the general plan amendment and zone change required for a 40-story high-rise in Koreatown to move forward. The...
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18 October 2021
Biomorphic Project Proposed for Los Angeles
A new project is planned for Hollywood Sunset Boulevard called The Star. The US$500 million building will be designed by MAD Architects and developed by...
10 September 2021
Dual-Branded Hotels in Los Angeles Top Out
National real estate investor and developer Lightstone announced the topping out of construction on the dual-branded Moxy Los Angeles Downtown and AC Hotel Los Angeles...
24 May 2021
Los Angeles Skyscraper Slide Won't Reopen
A renovation will do away with a slide that gave thrill-seekers a brief ride on the outside of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. The new...
21 May 2021
Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Moving Closer to Construction
A new residential high-rise in downtown Los Angeles has been approved by Los Angeles City Planning nearly five years after being first proposed. Located at...
03 May 2021
A Mega-Project Could Reshape the Arts District in Los Angeles
Blows to businesses during the pandemic have deadened the streets of downtown Los Angeles and threaten long-term changes to office life, but builders are pressing...
12 October 2020
Modernist Downtown Los Angeles Landmark Undergoes US$20 Million Renovation
The first phase in the historic preservation-minded rehabbing of Union Bank Plaza (UBP) in Downtown Los Angeles has wrapped up. Completed in 1967, the 40-story...
08 May 2020
Residential High-Rise Slated for Los Angeles' Westside for First Time in 40 Years
A Gensler-designed 34-story residential tower currently under construction on Los Angeles's Westside is poised to become the area's first residential high-rise in nearly 40 years. ...
24 April 2020
Skyscraper with Condos and Hotel Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
An Australian developer is pushing ahead with new plans for a US$500-million skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that would house both condominiums and a hotel....
30 March 2020
Timber Housing Development Being Planned for Skid Row in Los Angeles
Skid Row Housing Trust and Michael Maltzan Architecture are planning a 150-unit supportive housing development tower in Downtown Los Angeles, made almost entirely of wood....
03 March 2020
Los Angeles Residential Building Opens Decades After Damage from Earthquake
When she first laid eyes on Panorama Tower along Van Nuys Boulevard, Panorama City resident Cheryl Compton thought it “looked like a bomb had gone...
28 February 2020
Apartment Tower Proposed for Transit-Adjacent Parking Lot in Los Angeles
Off the 110 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, stands a low-rise Italianate-inspired student apartment complex—The Lorenzo. Now the developer of that project, G.H. Palmer Associates,...
26 February 2020
Proposed Mixed-Use Complex in Los Angeles Will Include Rent-Restricted Units
Plans to redevelop a struggling mall into 34 acres (14 hectares) of housing, new shops, and an event venue has become the first major project...
14 February 2020
Skyscraper to Rise in Downtown Los Angeles’ Historic Core
A skyscraper is slated to rise over a future subway station near the Los Angeles Grand Central Market. The latest renderings by Solomon Cordwell Buenz...
12 February 2020
Transit-Oriented Development Completed in Los Angeles
Park Fifth Tower 2, a 24-story high-rise building, and the adjacent Trademark, a seven-story mid-rise building in overlooking Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, has...
30 January 2020
Fire Erupts at Los Angeles High-Rise Apartment Building for Second Time Since 2013
Thirteen people were injured, and countless residents were displaced after a windswept fire tore through a 25-story apartment building on the west side of Los...
16 December 2019
Site Acquired for Proposed Residential Complex in Los Angeles
Chinese developer City Century has acquired a prime development site across the street from L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, where it intends to build...
02 December 2019
Planned Los Angeles Residential Complex to Proceed After Lawsuit Dismissed
Harridge Development has successfully dismissed a recent lawsuit against its Crossroads of the World megaproject in Hollywood. A judge has tossed the lawsuit from the...
12 November 2019
Transit-Oriented High-Rise in Los Angeles Passes Environmental Review
Plans for a 31-story tower, near the landmark Grand Central Market at 340 South Hill Street, have made their way through the Los Angeles City...
05 November 2019
Hotel, Retail Portions of Los Angeles’ Century Plaza Open in Spring 2020
The ambitious $2.5-billion Century Plaza project, centered on the landmark crescent-shaped hotel that has hosted presidents and rock stars over more than five decades, has...
13 September 2019
Proposed Skyscraper Glides through Los Angeles Planning Commission
Plans for what could become one of Downtown’s most unique-looking skyscrapers received unanimous approval today from the Los Angeles city planning commission. With cantilevered swimming...
23 August 2019
Los Angeles Flower Market Redevelopment is Moving Forward
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has approved the redevelopment of the city’s Southern California Flower Market by local firm Brooks + Scarpa Architects. The...
20 August 2019
Construction at Los Angeles’ Cumulus Development Nears Peak
Three cranes are in full swing on the corner of Jefferson and La Cienega Boulevards, as construction goes vertical at the 11-acre (4.5-hectare) Cumulus site....
27 June 2019
Construction of 438-Condo Skyscraper Approved in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council’s planning and land use management committee voted Tuesday, 25 June to approve plans for a 41-story tower at Figueroa and...
22 April 2019
“Kaleidoscopic” Los Angeles Skyscraper Moves Ahead
By 2023, the car wash at the corner of Figueroa and Olympic could be replaced with a “kaleidoscopic” 58-story skyscraper. That’s according to a new...
26 February 2019
Tree-Inspired Tower Slated for Downtown Los Angeles
A new mixed-use tower slated for a growing section of Downtown Los Angeles, designed by Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects, could rise as high as...
13 February 2019
The Grand Development Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
Gehry Partners’ twin-towered The Grand development in Downtown Los Angeles broke ground on 12 February, 2019. The sizable mixed-use complex is to be located directly...
08 February 2019
Residential High-Rise Tower Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
A $300 million 23-story residential tower has broken ground in Koreatown, a major submarket adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. Located at 2900 Wilshire Blvd., the...
05 February 2019
Los Angeles City Council Unanimously Approves $1 Billion Hollywood Crossroads Construction
The Los Angeles Planning Commission voted on January 23rd 2019 to endorse the $1 billion Crossroads Hollywood mixed-use project. Harridge Development Group will allow current residents...
30 January 2019
Work On Hold at Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles
Construction on one of the largest projects under construction in Downtown Los Angeles, Oceanwide Plaza, has ground to a halt, according to The Los Angeles...
07 January 2019
21-Story Tower on Track to Begin Construction in Los Angeles
A proposed high-rise development featuring a hotel and condominiums is on pace to begin construction in early 2019, according to its developer, Leo Lee. The...
07 November 2018
Works to Begin on High-Rise Complex in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill Sector
Since Related Companies first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial...
02 November 2018
New Details Emerge for 53-Story Los Angeles Project
Arquitectonica and JMF Development Co. are moving forward with their plans to build a 53-story tower adjacent to Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. The City...
27 March 2018
First Renderings Revealed for Cumulus Tower in LA
A major project planned for a West Adams property has been mostly a mystery since it was first proposed in 2015. Now, we’re getting our...
31 July 2023
Supportive Housing Designed for Skid Row
Over half a million people in the US are homeless, as per the 2022 Annual Homeless Assessment Report by the US Department of Housing and...
20 July 2023
Apartment Tower Cleared by LA Planning Commission
The proposed 562,700 square foot 8th, Grand & Hope development is set to rise in Los Angeles and add an additional strip to the downtown...
17 March 2023
Office Block with Unconventional Exterior Rises in Los Angeles
Hayden Tract, a former manufacturing hub in Culver City, California has been undergoing a transformation over the past four decades with buildings ideated by tech...
16 December 2022
Los Angeles Mandates All New Buildings Must be All-Electric
Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on 7 December requiring that all new buildings within city limits be constructed all-electric. With this vote,...
11 October 2022
Multifamily Project Receives Funding in Los Angeles
A residential high-rise and four-story luxury hotel has just received development funding in downtown Woodlands Hills, Los Angeles. Existing currently on the site are a...
29 August 2022
A Proposed Hollywood Office Complex Gets Closer to Approval in Los Angeles
A proposed Hollywood office complex, Sunset + Wilcox, would replace a Staples office supply store and similar commercial buildings at 6450 Sunset Boulevard. The proposed...
22 August 2022
Two Towers are Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
Set to be built on a site between Hill Street and California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles, a proposed development called Angels Landing will have...
09 August 2022
New Tower is Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
At 700 South Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, the Bloc is a proposal for a 53-story tower at a heigh of 216.4 meters (710...
13 May 2022
High-Rise Complex Planned for Landmark Los Angeles Mall
Primestor Development, which owns the approximately 20-acre (8-hectare) Panorama Mall at 8401 N. Van Nuys Boulevard, filed plans in April of 2022 with the City...
07 February 2022
Talent Agency to Move to New Headquarters in Los Angeles
Los Angeles talent and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) has announced that it will be moving from its current Century City offices at 2000...
03 February 2022
Redevelopment Project to Deliver Housing, Offices, and Retail to Los Angeles Site
Plans to redevelop a storage facility next to Metro's La Cienega/Jefferson Station with housing, offices, and retail are moving forward, with the publication of a...
24 January 2022
One Injured in Fire at Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Building
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out on the ground floor of a multi-story, high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles Monday morning, 24 January, 2022. The...
14 January 2022
Downtown Los Angeles 24-Story Residential Project Planned
A 13 January 2022 meeting of the Glendale Design Review Board unveiled renderings for Lucia Park, a residential high-rise planned just south of the 134...
01 December 2021
Second Proposal Submitted for 845 South Olive Street in Los Angeles
Real estate firm, Relevant Group, has filed an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for 845 South Olive Street. The firm is...
02 November 2021
Los Angeles Koreatown High-Rise Project Clears City Council
The Los Angeles City Council has approved the general plan amendment and zone change required for a 40-story high-rise in Koreatown to move forward. The...
18 October 2021
Biomorphic Project Proposed for Los Angeles
A new project is planned for Hollywood Sunset Boulevard called The Star. The US$500 million building will be designed by MAD Architects and developed by...
10 September 2021
Dual-Branded Hotels in Los Angeles Top Out
National real estate investor and developer Lightstone announced the topping out of construction on the dual-branded Moxy Los Angeles Downtown and AC Hotel Los Angeles...
24 May 2021
Los Angeles Skyscraper Slide Won't Reopen
A renovation will do away with a slide that gave thrill-seekers a brief ride on the outside of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper. The new...
21 May 2021
Downtown Los Angeles High-Rise Moving Closer to Construction
A new residential high-rise in downtown Los Angeles has been approved by Los Angeles City Planning nearly five years after being first proposed. Located at...
03 May 2021
A Mega-Project Could Reshape the Arts District in Los Angeles
Blows to businesses during the pandemic have deadened the streets of downtown Los Angeles and threaten long-term changes to office life, but builders are pressing...
12 October 2020
Modernist Downtown Los Angeles Landmark Undergoes US$20 Million Renovation
The first phase in the historic preservation-minded rehabbing of Union Bank Plaza (UBP) in Downtown Los Angeles has wrapped up. Completed in 1967, the 40-story...
08 May 2020
Residential High-Rise Slated for Los Angeles' Westside for First Time in 40 Years
A Gensler-designed 34-story residential tower currently under construction on Los Angeles's Westside is poised to become the area's first residential high-rise in nearly 40 years. ...
24 April 2020
Skyscraper with Condos and Hotel Proposed for Downtown Los Angeles
An Australian developer is pushing ahead with new plans for a US$500-million skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles that would house both condominiums and a hotel....
30 March 2020
Timber Housing Development Being Planned for Skid Row in Los Angeles
Skid Row Housing Trust and Michael Maltzan Architecture are planning a 150-unit supportive housing development tower in Downtown Los Angeles, made almost entirely of wood....
03 March 2020
Los Angeles Residential Building Opens Decades After Damage from Earthquake
When she first laid eyes on Panorama Tower along Van Nuys Boulevard, Panorama City resident Cheryl Compton thought it “looked like a bomb had gone...
28 February 2020
Apartment Tower Proposed for Transit-Adjacent Parking Lot in Los Angeles
Off the 110 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, stands a low-rise Italianate-inspired student apartment complex—The Lorenzo. Now the developer of that project, G.H. Palmer Associates,...
26 February 2020
Proposed Mixed-Use Complex in Los Angeles Will Include Rent-Restricted Units
Plans to redevelop a struggling mall into 34 acres (14 hectares) of housing, new shops, and an event venue has become the first major project...
14 February 2020
Skyscraper to Rise in Downtown Los Angeles’ Historic Core
A skyscraper is slated to rise over a future subway station near the Los Angeles Grand Central Market. The latest renderings by Solomon Cordwell Buenz...
12 February 2020
Transit-Oriented Development Completed in Los Angeles
Park Fifth Tower 2, a 24-story high-rise building, and the adjacent Trademark, a seven-story mid-rise building in overlooking Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles, has...
30 January 2020
Fire Erupts at Los Angeles High-Rise Apartment Building for Second Time Since 2013
Thirteen people were injured, and countless residents were displaced after a windswept fire tore through a 25-story apartment building on the west side of Los...
16 December 2019
Site Acquired for Proposed Residential Complex in Los Angeles
Chinese developer City Century has acquired a prime development site across the street from L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, where it intends to build...
02 December 2019
Planned Los Angeles Residential Complex to Proceed After Lawsuit Dismissed
Harridge Development has successfully dismissed a recent lawsuit against its Crossroads of the World megaproject in Hollywood. A judge has tossed the lawsuit from the...
12 November 2019
Transit-Oriented High-Rise in Los Angeles Passes Environmental Review
Plans for a 31-story tower, near the landmark Grand Central Market at 340 South Hill Street, have made their way through the Los Angeles City...
05 November 2019
Hotel, Retail Portions of Los Angeles’ Century Plaza Open in Spring 2020
The ambitious $2.5-billion Century Plaza project, centered on the landmark crescent-shaped hotel that has hosted presidents and rock stars over more than five decades, has...
13 September 2019
Proposed Skyscraper Glides through Los Angeles Planning Commission
Plans for what could become one of Downtown’s most unique-looking skyscrapers received unanimous approval today from the Los Angeles city planning commission. With cantilevered swimming...
23 August 2019
Los Angeles Flower Market Redevelopment is Moving Forward
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has approved the redevelopment of the city’s Southern California Flower Market by local firm Brooks + Scarpa Architects. The...
20 August 2019
Construction at Los Angeles’ Cumulus Development Nears Peak
Three cranes are in full swing on the corner of Jefferson and La Cienega Boulevards, as construction goes vertical at the 11-acre (4.5-hectare) Cumulus site....
27 June 2019
Construction of 438-Condo Skyscraper Approved in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles City Council’s planning and land use management committee voted Tuesday, 25 June to approve plans for a 41-story tower at Figueroa and...
22 April 2019
“Kaleidoscopic” Los Angeles Skyscraper Moves Ahead
By 2023, the car wash at the corner of Figueroa and Olympic could be replaced with a “kaleidoscopic” 58-story skyscraper. That’s according to a new...
26 February 2019
Tree-Inspired Tower Slated for Downtown Los Angeles
A new mixed-use tower slated for a growing section of Downtown Los Angeles, designed by Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects, could rise as high as...
13 February 2019
The Grand Development Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
Gehry Partners’ twin-towered The Grand development in Downtown Los Angeles broke ground on 12 February, 2019. The sizable mixed-use complex is to be located directly...
08 February 2019
Residential High-Rise Tower Breaks Ground in Los Angeles
A $300 million 23-story residential tower has broken ground in Koreatown, a major submarket adjacent to downtown Los Angeles. Located at 2900 Wilshire Blvd., the...
05 February 2019
Los Angeles City Council Unanimously Approves $1 Billion Hollywood Crossroads Construction
The Los Angeles Planning Commission voted on January 23rd 2019 to endorse the $1 billion Crossroads Hollywood mixed-use project. Harridge Development Group will allow current residents...
30 January 2019
Work On Hold at Oceanwide Plaza in Los Angeles
Construction on one of the largest projects under construction in Downtown Los Angeles, Oceanwide Plaza, has ground to a halt, according to The Los Angeles...
07 January 2019
21-Story Tower on Track to Begin Construction in Los Angeles
A proposed high-rise development featuring a hotel and condominiums is on pace to begin construction in early 2019, according to its developer, Leo Lee. The...
07 November 2018
Works to Begin on High-Rise Complex in Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill Sector
Since Related Companies first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial...
02 November 2018
New Details Emerge for 53-Story Los Angeles Project
Arquitectonica and JMF Development Co. are moving forward with their plans to build a 53-story tower adjacent to Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. The City...
27 March 2018
First Renderings Revealed for Cumulus Tower in LA
A major project planned for a West Adams property has been mostly a mystery since it was first proposed in 2015. Now, we’re getting our...
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