LOS ANGELES | METRO Project Rundown 2.0 (non-downtown) - Page 157

Muji · #**3121** Posted **Apr 7, 2013, 11:56 PM**

I love how these pictures were taken in 3 short blocks. As seen this afternoon:

K2LA

The Vermont

Southwestern Law School housing

Kingofthehill · #**3122** Posted **Apr 8, 2013, 2:55 AM**

I saw The Vermont towers today from the 10. They sure are growing fast!

Quixote · #**3123** Posted **Apr 8, 2013, 8:21 AM**

Southwestern Law School housing looks pretty good. The windows are what make it a nice design. White smooth stucco can actually look decent, and when combined with quality glass, can produce a simple, modern, and clean-looking building.

blackcat23 · #**3124** Posted **Apr 9, 2013, 12:20 AM**

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...tial_hotel.php

It looks like they might be gearing up to start work on this one, adjacent to Culver City Station. They moved a trailer onto the lot last week, and there were trucks/people on the site today.

Vangelist · #**3125** Posted **Apr 11, 2013, 12:33 AM**

President Obama’s proposed budget calls for $130 million for two Metro projects: Purple Line Extension and Regional Connector

http://thesource.metro.net/2013/04/1...nal-connector/

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Some very welcome news via the proposed budget released today by President Barack Obama: the budget includes $130 million to help fund two of Metro’s big rail projects: the Purple Line Extension and the Regional Connector. The budget allocates $65 million to both projects.

This is the first time that both projects will actually receive federal money. The funds are extremely significant because they help supplement Measure R funds for two projects that are both very expensive and need additional funds. Although Congress still must approve the budget, historically these type of funds don’t change much during budget negotiations.

There’s another reason the money is important. The funds are the first payment for more federal dollars that will flow to both projects in future federal budgets via the federal New Starts program that helps local transit agencies pay for big, pricey transit improvements — such as new rail lines.

blackcat23 · #**3126** Posted **Apr 11, 2013, 2:54 AM**

Someone brought this project up a few weeks back; Curbed had news about it today.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ywood_high.php

248 Luxury Apts. Headed For Site Across From Hollywood High

by Eve Bacharach

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Local developer Champion Real Estate is planning to bring 248 luxury apartments plus ground floor retail space to a 2.7-acre site at the northeast corner of Highland and Selma, across from Hollywood High School. The $100-million, two-building, six-story development will be heard by the Planning Department tomorrow. In their report, planning staff recommend approving the project (pdf), including Champion's request to include 46 fewer parking spaces than required (though it'll still have 538 spots).

Quixote · #**3127** Posted **Apr 11, 2013, 2:54 AM**

^ It was me. Love the design.

ZKB9 · #**3128** Posted **Apr 11, 2013, 4:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Westsidelife

^ It was me. Love the design.

I also love that design.

blackcat23 · #**3129** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 3:15 AM**

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ne_goodies.php

Century City Center Planning All Kinds of Purple Line Goodies

by Eve Bacharach

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The Century City Center project is moving along again--it was approved in 2006 as a two-condo-tower-plus-office-building, then switcharooed in 2011 to a single office tower. JMB is developing the site and Johnson Fain designed the 37-story tower. The plans also include one- and two-stories of adjacent creative office space, a transit plaza, and mobility hub all at the corner of Constellation and Avenue of the Stars. Which, coincidentally, is the same corner where Metro wants to put the Century City station for the Purple Line subway extension. The draft environmental impact report circulated last month details the many transit-friendly features of the mobility hub, including "rental, storage, and changing facilities for bicycles as well as a car-sharing program on site ... [and] may also sell bus passes, promote carpooling and vanpooling, and may include ticketing facilities for the Metro Westside Subway Extension in the future." Metro would allow a subway entrance to be built directly into the site if it were funded by a private developer. That is, of course, assuming that Beverly Hills doesn't win one of its 47 or so lawsuits trying to force Metro to move the station to Santa Monica Boulevard.

One negative is that it looks like the green space planned to go in between the new building and the Watt Plaza Towers appears to have be nixed in favor of a parking structure.

Here are some other renderings from the DEIR

LosAngelesSportsFan · #**3130** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 6:44 AM**

Love it. Timeline?

Quixote · #**3131** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 8:16 AM**

Is there anything that can save the tragedy that is Century City?

Mojeda101 · #**3132** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 2:08 PM**

Am I the only one noticing all this new development coming out of no where along the Streetcar path?

202_Cyclist · #**3133** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 2:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mojeda101

Am I the only one noticing all this new development coming out of no where along the Streetcar path?

Who'd have thought? Invest in transit and watch the surrounding area boom!

colemonkee · #**3134** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 4:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mojeda101

Am I the only one noticing all this new development coming out of no where along the Streetcar path?

This Century City project has been around for well over 6 months (these aren't the first renders we've seen), and it's nowhere near the Streetcar. Did you mean future Subway line?

Vangelist · #**3135** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 4:37 PM**

um, wow...

Thrilling New Views of Academy Museum's Great Glass Sphere
Thursday, April 11, 2013, by Adrian Glick Kudler

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php

After so many years of delays and switch-ups, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's movie museum is finally starting to roll--there's some pretty hot new action today in the form of new renderings/models of the building, which will include the existing 1939 May Company Building at Wilshire and Fairfax and a new glass sphere building that'll house a theater (on Monday it was announced that David Geffen had nabbed naming rights with a $25 million donation). The project is being designed by Renzo Piano, who designed the adjacent western portion of LACMA, and locally-based Zoltan Pali. It'll be 300,000 square feet in total and feature, per a press release:
- " More than 30,000 square feet of flexible exhibition galleries - A 15,000-square-foot landscaped public piazza that will serve as a gathering space for visitors and connect the museum with the LACMA campus - Special event spaces for groups of up to 1,000 people and a rooftop terrace with views of the Los Angeles basin and Hollywood hills"

blackcat23 · #**3136** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 5:37 PM**

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Love it. Timeline?

If I remember correctly, the timeline had construction starting in 2014/2015 with completion in 2017.

2014 should be a pretty big year for construction in Century City. The Century Plaza residential towers are supposed to break ground, as well as the 39 floor Westfield Tower/mall expansion.

No sign of anything happening at 10000 SaMo Blvd though.

Munchitup · #**3137** Posted **Apr 12, 2013, 7:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by blackcat23

Someone brought this project up a few weeks back; Curbed had news about it today.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ywood_high.php

248 Luxury Apts. Headed For Site Across From Hollywood High

by Eve Bacharach

Funny I walk past this lot often on my way to Runyon Canyon, and have wondered every time when it will get developed... It is in such a prime location it is surprising to see Highland still be so decayed while Vine is only has that one parking-lot blemish behind the Chase Bank (for now).

Does anyone have information on what is going up on this lot next to the Women's Club: http://goo.gl/maps/e994y A hotel perhaps? It looks like they have finished digging and begun building up.

WonderlandPark · #**3138** Posted **Apr 13, 2013, 6:13 AM**

I hike Runyon regularly. Glad to see Hollywood is on fire. Wondered about this spot. This looks great, a better way to do the usual 5 story wood framed deal.

Chef Boyardee · #**3139** Posted **Apr 13, 2013, 8:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by Vangelist

um, wow...

Thrilling New Views of Academy Museum's Great Glass Sphere
Thursday, April 11, 2013, by Adrian Glick Kudler

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/0...ass_sphere.php

After so many years of delays and switch-ups, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's movie museum is finally starting to roll--there's some pretty hot new action today in the form of new renderings/models of the building, which will include the existing 1939 May Company Building at Wilshire and Fairfax and a new glass sphere building that'll house a theater (on Monday it was announced that David Geffen had nabbed naming rights with a $25 million donation). The project is being designed by Renzo Piano, who designed the adjacent western portion of LACMA, and locally-based Zoltan Pali. It'll be 300,000 square feet in total and feature, per a press release:
- " More than 30,000 square feet of flexible exhibition galleries - A 15,000-square-foot landscaped public piazza that will serve as a gathering space for visitors and connect the museum with the LACMA campus - Special event spaces for groups of up to 1,000 people and a rooftop terrace with views of the Los Angeles basin and Hollywood hills"

This of course is not the first attempt to build a movie museum in LA. Being interested in LA ephemera/vintage postcards, i found this model of a museum that was supposed to have been built on highland across from the hollywood bowl in i'd guess 50's/60's.

http://www.cardcow.com/373194/hollyw...um-california/

blackcat23 · #**3140** Posted **Apr 14, 2013, 1:58 AM**

Taken this afternoon.