The wheels are in motion to dramatically alter the look of a group of Metro-owned parcels near the North Hollywood stop, which serves the subway’s Red Line and the bus-rapid transit Orange Line. Metro is working with Trammell Crow Company to bring 1,500 housing units, retail, and office space to the transportation hub. The development, called District NoHo, is slated to be built in phases starting in 2021.

Developer Westfield is planning a major overhaul of the old Promenade mall site that would bring 1,400 rental units, new shops and restaurants, 572 hotel rooms, and an entertainment venue.

New streets and pathways will be built throughout the site, and the development will have 5.6 acres of public open space.

The developer is planning to erect the project in phases and wants to start as early as 2021.

A project on the former Laurel Plaza site is slated to bring 642 apartments, as many as 60 dining and shopping options, a Trader Joe’s, gym, and movie theater to the old 25-acre Laurel Plaza site.

Construction on the big revamp is well underway. Work began in April 2017, and the Los Angeles Daily News reports that the commercial and shopping portion of the project—developed by Merlone Geier Partners—should be open by the summer. The residential component will be built by Trammell Crow Residential and Barings Real Estate as a later phase of the project, says the News.

The Burbank Town Center’s Ikea has moved about 1 mile away, and developers Crown Realty and Development Inc. have big plans for the spot it left behind. They intend to raze the old Ikea and build 765 multi-family units; an additional 70 for-sale units would be built at 800 North San Fernando Boulevard.

The rest of the mall was thoroughly renovated, with the help of CAPREF Manager LLC, adding new outdoor dining areas and bringing in new tenants.

Beverly Hills-based Icon Company plans to tear down three commercial buildings, including the shuttered Montgomery Ward, at Roscoe Boulevard and Tobias Avenue, to make way for seven new buildings measuring 584,000 square feet. That space would hold 423 units of multifamily housing plus 200,000 square feet of commercial floor area. At the center of all of that? A six-level parking garage with spaces for 1,690 cars.

The Weddington family once wanted to give their golf course a facelift, building 200 apartments in a 41-foot-tall structure on about a quarter of the site along the way and installing new walking paths and access points to the nearby LA River. Neighbors resisted the plans; they wanted a wetlands park added to the site.

In October 2017, the family sold the property to the Harvard-Westlake School, which plans to put an athletic center and park on the site. Though there have been reports that the grounds were closing to the public, a representative for Harvard-Westlake says they expect the property to stay as it is and open for at least two more years. The completed campus, called Harvard-Westlake River Park, will include more than 6 acres of public park space, plus tennis courts and walking trails that are also open to the public.

This North Hills project—with 364 apartments—will replace a former plant nursery with a complex of four buildings ranging in height from 45 to 85 feet. Forty-four of the units will be earmarked for tenants with low incomes. The project also includes a parking garage with 557 spots, plus a swimming pool and a dog run. The developers are still finalizing the details of the project.

A U.S. subsidiary of Beijing-based BCEGI International Company is building a 274-unit apartment complex with 11 live work units and a 12-story office building. 

This office campus will incorporate creative office, residential, and retail space on a 24-acre property that was once home to a Los Angeles Times printing plant. (The plant has been adaptively reused as offices.) Developers Uncommon call the project “24.”

New structures holding 660 apartments and ground-floor retail space will be built around the offices, which will serve as the headquarters for MGA Entertainment, the makers of big-eyed Bratz dolls.

Designed by Killefer Flammang Architects, the campus will also feature considerable resident amenities, including two pools, community gardens, outdoor walking tracks, and an open-air amphitheater. The project broke ground in November 2016 and is currently in phase one of construction.