A major new project planned for Hollywood has been substantially redesigned, as state planning documents reveal.
The documents (spotted by Urbanize LA) show off a new look for a mixed use project developer Champion Real Estate Company is seeking to build at the intersection of Yucca Street and Argyle Avenue, close to the Capitol Records building.
In 2015, plans for the project called for a 32-story tower with residences, hotel rooms, and commercial space. All of the latter features will be included in the new design, but the project, as designed now, would be divided up between a 20-story tower and a four-story building next door.
Together, the two structures will include 210 residential units, 136 hotel rooms, and 12,500 square feet of commercial space.
In order to build the project, multiple residential structures already on the site will have to be demolished, including a single-family home, a duplex, and a rent-controlled apartment complex. Residents of the apartments have fought the project fiercely, establishing a group called Save Yucca Argyle and expressing support for the Measure S ballot measure, which would have imposed a moratorium on projects like this one that require city-approved zoning changes.
Previous plans for the project called for 39 affordable units—nearly equal to the 40 units included in the apartment complex that would be razed to clear space for the development. It's not clear if those units will be included in the latest version of the project. The planning documents submitted to the state don't mention an affordable component.
As Urbanize LA notes, the project developers have applied for a streamlined environmental review that could speed up the project's approval. If planning staff and city officials give the project the go-ahead, construction could begin by 2018.
- First Look at the 32-Story Tower That Could Be Headed Next to Capitol Records in Hollywood [Curbed LA]
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- 21-Story Tower Headed for Hollywood Near Capitol Records [Curbed LA]
Comments
Let’s hope the "affordable" units will be included.
By Mildred Fillmore on 06.28.17 9:14pm
If it requires a zoning variance, it will have to include a certain percentage of affordable units per Measure JJJ.
By disqusted on 06.29.17 3:03pm
Googling the area, it’s clear that no one involved in planning has ever seen a proper street, or can see one in the context of Los Angeles. It’s all viewed from the windshield of a car, and from the perspective of where one can park. Not whether or not one might want to walk, and whether there might be a reason to do so.
This street was never a great street even when I walked it, but it’s not getting better, its getting worse.
As Mother Jones pointed out (specifically, but not exclusively referring to Berkeley) a lot of American cities denounced Trump for dumping the Paris Accords, yet are doing more to encourage global climate change than the petrochemical companies through their development polices which almost universally favor a car centric approach, and resist greater density, height, and while not emphasized, pedestrian quality access and attraction. This development, and those already in progress and long built, are all of the same fig leaf: We’re So Mad At Trump, but damn, Not In My Back Yard!
By Gryphonisle on 06.28.17 11:03pm
Nice post. The development cheerleaders that largely dominate discussion here have far more in common with the sociopathic greed of a Donald Trump, than the equitable liberal ethos they pretend to espouse.
By BarrioLA on 06.29.17 10:55am
The claim that it’s not walkable seems rather subjective. Furthermore, people routinely overlook the close proximity of the Vine subway station and the newly built bike hub.
BarrioLA, you have a right to be at odds with the unaffordable price tag of these new developments, but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that these new buildings are vacant or not being filled. The fact that all the recent buildings in Hollywood have low vacancy is testament to the severe housing shortage.
Sure, we’d all like more low-income housing, but the developers that your antagonizing are successfully filling their units. Can you really fault them for supply and demand?
By inshane on 06.29.17 11:53am
Uh, what? I’m right near here, and this is one of the more walkable neighborhoods in the city. This project, plus the Kimpton hotel, Eastown, and all of the other new developments in a 1/2 mile radius have really improved the sidewalk spaces and pedestrian feel. Living here has allowed me to walk and use transit for 99% of my life, only hopping in my car to go surfing.
The new development also makes things feel safer, particularly at night, as there is active security staff as well as multiple security cameras in these new developments – the security cameras at Eastown helped find and prosecute a dog attack incident a couple months ago. If developers could build higher and with less parking in Hollywood and not get immediately sued by Silverstein/La Mirada, they would do so.
By disqusted on 06.29.17 3:08pm
I truly hope our city officials / design boards ensure this project will have the 40 Affordable / Low Income units that this project is displacing. If those previous Rent Controlled units are renting for say $1800 for a 1bedroom, I pray for our urban fabric and homeless crisis that the "Affordable Units" are not priced at something like $2100 for a 1 bedroom.
This project is significantly large enough to be able to bring in a profit WITH those affordable units included. If they choose not to (or city officials allow them to exclude them) then that are doing what everyone hates about Developers: Putting maximized profit (not just profit) above the health and well-being of the urban fabric. People seriously need to stop acting like a city can sustain itself with just the wealthy/tourists living it it. We need Blue Collar/Affordable Apartment Tenants near the city core to work in the service, retail, ect jobs we White Collar ppl rely on. If we push them to the outskirts it will only make traffic and congestion worse (assuming they can even make it back). And if they become homeless…lord have mercy.
And with all the nationalistic America First fervor going around, coupled with our Housing Crisis, you would think we would push developers to prioritize housing over yet another God Dam Hotel. And before you "WE CANNOT DISTURB THE OH SO PERFECT FREE MARKET" trolls come out the wood works, keep in mind our Orange Savior Jesus Christ 2.0 aka Trump, is sitting here trying to prop up the Coal Industy, an industry that has been decimated for years due to more profitable/efficient/clean sources of energy. One would think Housing for Americans over hotels for tourists would be more of a concern than dirty Coal jobs.
By USCTrojan90 on 06.29.17 1:24pm
If the affordable component is retained, all the residents of the current rent-controlled units slated for demolition have to do is live in a tent for two and a half years until their sparkling NEW units are ready in this building. I’m sure the new units will be at least as large as the ones being razed.
By enter ranting on 06.29.17 1:54pm
They’ll have plenty of tent neighbors to hang out with in this neighborhood, thanks to NIMBYs like you who have prevented us from building an adequate housing supply over the past couple decades. Do you have a couch you’d be willing to share in the meantime?
By disqusted on 06.29.17 3:20pm
I’ve done absolutely nothing to prevent development in Hollywood, besides commenting on this blog (I know – developers cancel their projects when they read that I don’t like them). You’re the one with the "million dollar net worth." Why don’t you supply the couches?
By enter ranting on 06.30.17 2:10pm