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William Lacy house built this house at 3200 Wilshire, sw corner of Vermont, in 1905/06. Some sources say it was bought by John Bullock when he was considering building Bullock’s-Wilshire on the site; it was later decided that the high traffic volume at the intersection would discourage patronage, so the store opened a little east on Wilshire. At any rate, in January 1925, the Times reported that Bullock moved the Lacy house to Windsor Square. He also moved his own house, built in 1913 at 627 S Ardmore, to 605 S Plymouth.
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Back when the Pink Line HRT was still on the table, I would have ran the Pink Line along with the Purple Line from Union Station to Wilshire/Vermont where it would split north and run with the Red Line up to SaMo/Vermont where it would split again west and run down SaMo Blvd through WeHo until rejoining the Purple Line on Wilshire/SaMo on the way to city of Santa Monica. The Red Line would no longer run east of Vermont to downtown and would instead continue south on Vermont after Wilshire/Vermont via a southern extension to the Expo line and points south.

Comment #15 then we are neighbors. I can see buildings also. That doesn’t mean that they have prefect views of the details of the goings on in my backyard.

I actually like the building on Wilshire and would like to see more tall ones.

Comment 14 yes it would be nice if some of the less attractive parts of Wilshire were fixed up. Maybe developments like this with more people living up against or on Wilshire will encourage that.

Have you seen the Viridian’s website? It’s hilarious!!

Did you know each residence features Pedestrian access to Wilshire Blvd? It’s called the sidewalk, as you’re a block south of Wilshire behind a big tower. I have pedestrian access to Wilshire Blvd, Hollywood Blvd, Sunset Blvd, and Rodeo blvd using the same logic!

The website claims it’s "easily the most anticipated" development (with about 12 qualifiers). Really? According to whom?
 
It also says "you’re forgiven if you mistake Viridian for an upscale boutique hotel" HaHaHa!

Yes, it will be difficult for several years. The development usually follows the neighborhood gentrification, not the other way around. Until some better restaurants open in this stretch along Wilshire, there are much better communities for renters to want to live in. I’ve complained about this in the past, but Wilshire needs the sort of restaurants, wine bars & coffee shops they have in Larchmont, Culver City, and Los Feliz — Alcove, Urth, M Cafe, Peets, Father’s Office — the kind of places renters/hipsters hang out in. With the galleries, museums, El Rey, etc., it’s frankly perplexing why these places don’t already exist along Wilshire.

#3, in LA, 16 stories is still a high rise. Only a handful of cities in the world have large occurrence of buildings numbering 40, 50 stories or more.

That said, when you build along a corridor like Wilshire, you get your 20th floor apartment looking into someone else’s 20th floor apatment. What the rendereings cleverly leave out is the Art Moderne 12-story building on the North-east corner of Wilshire/La Jolla, and the solid wall of 14-or-so story buildings on the south side of Wilshire at that corner.

I think it’s a fairly innoculous looking building; not unattractive nor striking in design. What I don’t understand is why curbed keeps referring to this building as being in Brentwood. Brentwood ends on the north side of Wilshire Blvd, and West LA begins on the south side of Wilshire. This building is on the south side of Wilshire Blvd between Stoner Avenue and Granville Avenue, which would place it in West LA, not Brentwood. Also, it’s not the Brentwood Neighborhood Council who is reviewing this project, but as you have noted, it is the West Los Angeles Neighborhood Council who is taking it under submission.

Didn’t they already try this on Wilshire Blvd? I remeber about a year ago Wilshire had bus only lanes from centinerla to federal in west LA? All that did was make traffic much much worse and gave cops excuses to write up drivers who used the bus only lanes. The city realized it wasn’t helping and got rid of it.

What they should do to alleviate traffic on Wilshire is to prevent parking on the curbside lanes during rush hour all the way from Ocean to Grand and give access to everybody.

Why not just build the Crenshaw station and have an express line for rush hour and a local line running on the same tracks. Other cities do it and we already have BRT and local bus lines. Also, I was at the meeting and complained to a metro official about the roller coaster bumpy as hell bus ride along the Crenshaw section of Wilshire and he informed me that there are plans to re-pave Wilshire. A nice smooth bus ride on new Wilshire pavement and a bus-only lane will help provide some relief until we get the subway up and running in 8-10 years.

@la-planner: The proposed legislation gives no approvals. If the local jurisdiction does not certify the EIR, it does not get approved. The legislation just addresses the times when an EIR is challenged in court.

@guest #17: This legislation has no impact on Wilshire Grand because no one is challenging Wilshire Grand in court. Plus, Wilshire Grand has already been approved and this legislation does not provide any protections for projects approved before it being passed (if it ultimately is).