A “micro hotel” and event space is now occupying this old neighborhood theater that opened in 1926. The space is being marketed to groups (at a nightly rate of $1,199), and eventually, the owners aim to have a coffee shop and a restaurant on site. 

Bunker Heights, LLC is planning to build two neighboring apartment complexes here: a six-story apartment building with 33 units at 708 South New Depot Street and a five-story building with 37 units at 849 North Bunker Hill Avenue. Combined, five of the units will be earmarked for tenants with low incomes.

A steep plot of land at the intersection of Yale and Old streets will eventually be a new park with an open-air amphitheater, chess tables, a bamboo grove, a climbing wall, and a wheelchair-accessible pathway. AHBE Landscape Architects is designing the park, which will be geared toward multi-generational recreation.

Details for the park were first unveiled in 2014. At that time, city officials predicted the park would be open by now. Construction is now expected to begin in September.

This Spring Street property is slated to become the site of the first Los Angeles project of the lauded Chicago-based architecture firm Studio Gang. A French developer, Compagnie de Phalsbourg, plans a 26-story building holding 300 apartments, 149 hotel rooms, shops, and public open space. 

The building’s wavy, tapered design would allow for fresh air and sunlight in every unit, the architects told Curbed LA.

In January 2017, Chinatown developer Redcar had filed plans for 203 new residential units plus parking and retail to the site. They withdrew their plans in September 2017.

Downtown developer Izek Shomoff is branching out in Chinatown with this apartment complex. The seven-story project will hold 122 residential units (six of them set aside for very low-income tenants), plus 4,200 square feet of ground floor retail space, 120 parking spaces, and 124 spots for bikes.

Shomoff recently submitted plans under the city’s transit-oriented communities guidelines that seek to add 31 more apartments to the originally planned project.

A site that now hosts the East West Bank and a handful of storefronts could give way to a 27-story mixed-use development from Vancouver-based Townline and Forme Development. The project will hold 178 apartments with five set aside for low-income housing.

An ambitious plan would bring 920 apartments, including 17 live-work units, along with 21,406 square feet of commercial space to a long, slim property that curves around the northern end of the LA State Historic Park, between the park and Broadway. At its tallest, the project would rise to 14 stories.

The developers are Lincoln Property Company, co-developer of Lincoln Heights Jail reboot, and S & R Partners, which is run by the Riboli family that founded the San Antonio Winery 101 years ago. Neighborhood opposition to the project has been firm.

Early designs for the 5.7-acre property just east of the Chinatown Gold Line once called for two 20-story towers, but the most recent designs by architects Johnson Fain show a shorter plan for the site. The project, developed by Atlas Capital Group, now calls for six low-rise buildings, street-level retail, and a 37,000-square-foot grocery store.

Work was expected to start at the end of 2016, but doesn’t appear to have gotten underway. The lots are still regularly used as parking for big events.

The beloved park reopened last year after a $20-million renovation, but there’s still a bit of work to be done. Coming to the eastern end of the park are a giant water wheel and a connection to the soon-to-be-restored Los Angeles River.