Set to rise just a half-block from the LA River, this apartment complex would replace a pair of low-slung office and retail structures that have been on the property since the 1950s. The complex would hold 205 units of housing, including 18 apartments reserved for tenants making under half of LA’s median income, and have approximately 6,000 square feet of retail space at street level.

A redevelopment of part of the Sportsmen’s Lodge complex by developer Richard Weintraub would turn it into a fancy 98,000-square-foot retail center called Sportsmen’s Landing. The open-air mall would bring roughly 24,000 square feet of restaurant space, a 30,000-square-foot gym (shown as an Equinox in promotional materials), and roughly 37,500 square feet of shops, including an Erewhon grocery store. (The hotel next door would remain on-site, unchanged.)

The project is expected to get underway next month, with completion expected in the fall of 2020.

A bridge across the LA River that will link Griffith Park and Glendale? It’s about time. This over-300-foot-long bridge would link the LA River Greenway Trail—the pedestrian and bike path that goes along the Griffith Park side of the river—with the Glendale side of the river, the Glendale Narrows Riverwalk, and Glendale’s bikeway system.

The Glendale connection will be on Flower Street, and link up to Griffith’s John Ferraro Athletic Fields, where the soccer fields are.

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Once planned as a temporary crossing for pedestrians and cyclists while the Glendale Hyperion complex of bridges is overhauled, this bridge connecting Atwater Village and Silver Lake over the LA River will be a permanent fixture once complete. The new 430-foot-long bridge will use piers that were left behind by the Pacific Electric “Red Car” trolleys. It will cross from Glendale and Ferncroft Road on the Atwater side and link up to the LA River bike path on the Silver Lake side.

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An LLC linked to New York-based Pan Am Equities has proposed a 419-apartment complex here, near the 2 Freeway between Glassell Park and Atwater Village. Located near the Bow Tie parcel, the project would abut the open space/art space Bowtie Parcel, and plans to provide access to the 18-acre space. A warehouse occupies the site now.

The apartments, 35 of which would be reserved for low-income tenants, would be held in a group of five-story buildings that form a triangle shape, designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios.

This 41-acre parcel is considered the lynchpin to revitalizing the LA River as a greener public space, and, in 2017, the city took a big step forward in turning the site into an expansive public space by choosing a team to design a future park on the property.

Engineering and consulting firm WSP will lead a team that includes landscape architecture and urban design firm Mia Lehrer + Associates in coming up with interim uses for the space (so it can be used during the extensive cleanup and remediation process) and the public park that will ultimately grace the space.

The process to becoming a public green space will be a long one, but some preliminary concepts for the park are being presented to the public for feedback now.

(Map point is Rio de Los Angeles State Park. G2 is the large, vacant space between the park and the bend in the river.)

This hard-to-miss orange bridge would link Elysian Valley and Cypress Park’s Taylor Yard parcel, hooking up the existing bike and pedestrian path to Kerr Road, a small street on the north side of the river. The project broke ground in June, and is expected to be complete in early 2021.

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The Art Deco Lincoln Heights Jail is set to be redeveloped into a Rios Clementi Hale Studios-designed collection of commercial and manufacturing spaces, a public market, creative office space, live-work housing, green space with an amphitheater, and recreation space.

The old jail building, once known for over-crowding and a symbol of a rising crackdown on gay Angelenos, will be reused in the project. Developers Lincoln Property Company and Fifteen Group plan to build additional affordable housing and commercial office space across the street, on a site they previously acquired.

LA-based artist Lauren Bon has been working for years to get a water wheel and small dam installed on the LA River and it seems like she’s really, really close to making it happen.

Bon’s got all her ducks in a row, but since at least 2017 she has been waiting to receive a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers—the very last permit she needs to begin work on the project.

The project, titled Bending The River Back Into the City, would build a tall, functioning water wheel near the site of an earlier water wheel that, in the 1860s, directed water through the Zanja Madre, the original irrigation channel that brought water to LA back when it was still known as Pueblo de Los Angeles.

The wheel and dam would capture water that would be treated and used to irrigate the nearby Los Angeles State Historic Park, as well as the recently opened Albion River Park and Downey Recreation Center on the Lincoln Heights side of the river.

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A collection of warehouses owned by Gaw Capital (owners of the Bradbury Building) is set to be transformed into a little hub of nightlife and good food thanks to a slew of East Coast transplants. An LA outpost of the Brooklyn indie music venue Baby’s All Right has yet to open, but a new restaurant by Momofuku’s David Chang called Majordomo and a new bar from the people behind New York City’s Apotheke cocktail bar are up and running.

Although the park recently reopened with permanent restrooms, new landscaping, and an overlook bridge, one very exciting addition has yet to open: a restaurant and beer garden. A small restaurant on the end of the park nearest the Chinatown Gold Line station is under construction now. Originally projected to open in the summer of 2017, the restaurant, called Cargo, is now expected top be complete by the end of the summer, a representative for the park tells Curbed.

Under construction now, the Michael Maltzan-designed Sixth Street bridge will span the Los Angeles River to connect the Arts District and Boyle Heights. It will replace its iconic but deteriorating predecessor, which needed to be demolished. The bridge, which will appear as a succession of swooping ribbon-like arches, is scheduled to open in 2020.

A public park planned for below the bridge is in the works. It’s planned to bring athletic fields, playground and fitness equipment, walking and bike paths, a public art and performance area, and a community center to a 12-acre space beneath the new structure.

Separated from the river only by train tracks, this nine-story office building will also hold street-level retail. Plans call for a new sidewalk and trees to create a pedestrian-friendly atmosphere where one does not currently exist. Right now, the site is mostly sheds and warehouses used for scrapyards and storage.

Developers Lowe (formerly Lowe Enterprises) expects a 2021 opening for the building.

A 1.8-acre site adjacent to the future Soho Warehouse is slated to become a three-building complex with offices, retail, and residential space. Developed by Bay Capital Fund and designed by Long Beach-based Studio One Eleven, the project is less than a block from the river and will include a tower with 110 live/work units and a rooftop pool; an office building with a rooftop restaurant; and an industrial-cool “strategically-adapted retail shed structure.”

This massive adaptive reuse project near the river and Olympic Boulevard would see the recognizable Art Deco Sears tower and its vacant 10-story distribution center transformed into a mixed-use development with 1,030 live-work units, a food hall, offices, and event space.

Architecture firm Omgivning plans to open up the decidedly industrial space with some “light courts” that will allow for more natural light into the hulking on-site buildings.

Developer Izek Shomof also plans to build a new mixed-user adjacent to the Sears project on Soto Street that would bring retail and 540 housing units to the neighborhood. Last year, it was reported that Shomof was looking for a partner on the project.

This plan could lead to a major transformation of the river’s lower portion, between Vernon and Long Beach, where the river meets the ocean.

A draft plan, called the Lower LA River Revitalization Plan, calls for a whopping 146 projects along the lower 19 miles of the LA River. Projects include affordable housing and green space around Cudahy Park, three bridges topped by parks in South Gate, new crossings, and a nature overlook at Compton Creek. (Map point is Cudahy Park.)