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After years of delays and redesigns, the long-awaited Glass Tower will finally break ground at 11th and Grand in South Park during the early part of 2008. We contacted developer Amir Kalantari of Kalantari Group who confirmed the project is nearly ready to move forward.

The most recent reports suggested Kalantari had set his sights on an early January kick-off, but he now says, “Our ground breaking schedule has been pushed back beyond January 2008. The slight delay will be used to study the secondary financing market and finalize our firm’s financing decisions for the project. The scope of the project remains the same.”

Another reliable, but separate, source close to the project confirms this information.

The sleek 23-story tower designed by De Stefano + Partners will contain 128 luxury condominiums and 5,600 square-feet of ground-level retail. The development will replace a surface parking lot on the northeast corner of 11th and Grand in the South Park district, catty-corner to the new South Group towers.



Rendering 1

http://www.angelenic.com/images/ccre...lass_tower.jpg

Rendering 2

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h6...a/5_30_big.jpg

Glass Tower Construction Sign

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1140/...49ea7d.jpg?v=0


If someone has new informations or corrections let me know

LosAngeles, I corrected the title of the thread. It should be Glass Tower, which is the name of the development. Also, you need to quote your sources for the story (I presume the Downtown News) and your photos. Thems the rules.

As for updated info, we're well past the "early" part of 2008, so don't hold your breath on this one starting anytime soon. Unless, of course, you can hold your breath for a very, very long time.

Sorry Colemonkee and thank you.
And i got the pics from Google... :P
(seriously) :D
Anyway we have to be real i agree with you the "early 2008" is over and i hope construction will start in the next 1 or 2 years :(

This thread is supposed to be exclusively about the Glass Tower.

Updates like that should be posted in the L.A. thread in the City Compilations forum or in the L.A. forum itself.

True, but then why are there threads about other projects like Concerto, Ritz-Carlton, 717 Ninth, and Hanover?

Anyways, argue about that with Westsidelife; he seems to think that that is the way it should be.

This project was scheduled to break ground 3-4 years ago. If it couldn't break ground in the good economic times I don't see why it would break ground anytime soon.