We'll start close to the beginning of the train’s westbound route, where less than two weeks ago, developer CityView filed plans with the city to turn this inauspicious restaurant building into a mixed use structure with 296 residential units, 25 of them for very low-income tenants.

Close to both the LATTC/Ortho Institute stop on the Expo Line and USC, the project is one of many currently planned in and around Historic South Central. Designs by Humphreys and Partners Architects show balconies and a rooftop with communal space above the complex.

The West Hollywood-based Charles Company originally planned this shopping center near the Expo/Crenshaw station as a massive retail space complete with a Target. Plans changed and the project shifted to include a senior living component and far less commercial area (also no Target).

Last year, the project re-emerged with a whopping 573 residential units—more than three times what was initially proposed—plus shops, a grocery store, and as many as seven restaurants.

The project is surrounded in turmoil. In May, the Real Deal reported that the Charles Company was marketing a ground lease for the property. The Los Angeles Times also reported last month that the company had defaulted on $6.3 million in federal loans on the project. Last year, its founder was arrested on bribery charges. The site remains empty. A groundbreaking date is unclear.

This two-building project slated for the south side of Crenshaw and Exposition boulevards could bring 492 residential units and commercial and retail space to two Expo Line-adjacent properties. The new structures would rise on two parcels—one vacant, and one occupied by a county probation office. Both are on either side of Crenshaw just south of Exposition Boulevard.

This project featuring 128,000 square feet of creative office space is set to rise just across the street from the Ivy Station complex. It’s not yet complete, but has already been leased by Apple for its entertainment division (after HBO backed out and moved across the street). Developed by Lincoln Property Company and Clarion Partners, the project will incorporate more than 28,000 square feet of open space, including a large central courtyard and rooftop deck.

This complex is going up on the site of a parking lot for the Expo Line’s Culver City stop at National and Venice. The project includes 200 apartment units, 240,000 square feet of office space, and a 148-room hotel. In a testament to the close relationship between development and mass transit, the complex is named for a long lost stop on Pacific Electric’s Air Line, which was itself named after a housing development. Construction is expected to be finished in mid-2020. HBO plans to move its headquarters into all the available office space in 2021.

First proposed in 2008, plans for this project from developer Alan Casden originally included 160,000 square feet of retail and buildings up to 17 stories tall. After false starts and long stalls, in March 2017, the Real Deal reported Carmel Partners bought the property. That same year, the developer broke ground on 595 apartments and 5,000 square feet of commercial space in a four-building project, now called Linea.

Positioned on the opposite side of the tracks from the Martin Expo Town Center project at Expo/Bundy, this KFA-designed development will feature 100 residential units and just under 2,000 square feet of restaurant space. Like the project replacing the Fantasy Island strip club, this one is developed by Amoroso Companies.

Going up just a block from the new Expo/Bundy station, this Gensler-designed structure will replace a former Cadillac Dealership with 516 units of housing and more than 81,000 square feet of retail space. Twenty percent of units in the distinctive, terraced complex will be affordable, while 10,000 square feet have been designated for the development of a public plaza space.

The project was sued by neighbors who worried about the traffic impacts of the development. A court ruling last year cleared the way for the project to proceed, say reps for the Martin family, which owns the site and would develop the project. It’s expected to break ground later this year.

There’s plenty of projects in the works around the Expo Line's new Downtown Santa Monica station, but the area near the line’s penultimate stop at 17th Street has been comparatively quiet. As of now, the closest project to that station is this 50-unit building designed by Plus Architects.

Planned for the intersection of Colorado Avenue and 15th Street, the building will be about as close to the tracks as you can get. There’s been no recent movement on the project, Santa Monica city planning records indicate.

This sleek seven-story mixed-user is set to replace a Fred Segal just a block from the Downtown Santa Monica stop and really made an impression on the city’s planning commission. Developed by The Witkoff Group, the project includes 249 apartments and over 68,000 square feet of retail space. It’s under construction now and is expected to be complete by 2021, according to the website for Koning Eizenberg Architecture, which designed the project.

Another project from MWFA, this building will include 64 units of housing and 6,345 square feet of ground floor retail space. The project also includes a pedestrian plaza and unique common area on the third floor, where designers decided to carve out a large hole in the building’s facade in order to satisfy an obscure local zoning requirement.