SRO Housing Corporation CEO Anita U. Nelson, the development site, and a rendering of the project An affordable developer wants to build an 81-unit permanent supportive housing complex in Echo Park, at a time when Los Angeles is struggling to address its rising homeless population. SRO Housing Corporation filed plans for the city’s Transit-Oriented Communities […]
Inland Empire’s industrial reign continues as Transwestern buys massive Eastvale warehouse site
Transwestern CEO Carleton Riser and the Inland Empire property The Inland Empire’s industrial clout keeps getting more powerful. Transwestern Development Company has acquired a 22-acre site in Eastvale, where it will construct two buildings, comprising 338,00 square feet, it announced. Work on the property, which Transwestern says is one of the last land parcels in […]
Developer behind (W)rapper Tower now planning a 22-story office tower in West Adams
amitaur Constructs founders Laurie and Frederick Samitaur Smith and the development site (credit: Getty Images and Google Earth) A developer whose projects include the high-concept (W)rapper Tower is now proposing a 22-story office tower in West Adams. Local firm Samitaur Constructs filed for the project this week through 5850 West Jefferson LLC. The site at […]
Prolific developer Wiseman Residential eyes another resi complex in hot Venice
1600 E. Venice Boulevard (Credit: iStock) Prolific developer Wiseman Residential is planning a 77-unit apartment complex in Venice, which would be one of its larger recent projects. The Sawtelle-based firm is requesting a density bonus and maximum height increase for the development, which would rise at 1600 E. Venice Boulevard, according to records. The requests […]
Reservations: Hollywood hotel project faces appeal from rent control tenants
A rendering of the proposed hotel project on Whitley Street (Credit: Daryoush Safai) Hotel construction in Los Angeles is booming, particularly in Hollywood. But residents of one project are hoping to put the brakes on development. L.A. officials approved a 156-room hotel at 1719-1731 N. Whitley Street, but now residents of six rent-controlled apartment buildings […]
The odyssey of the Mountain: Inside the struggle to sell 157 acres atop Beverly Hills
The Mountain of Beverly Hills (Credit: A Bird’s Eye and Vity-Dream) It is one of the great what-might-bes of Los Angeles real estate. A 157-acre mountaintop property once envisioned as a mansion-in-the-sky for the Shah of Iran’s family remains unbuilt and unbought. After an earth-moving project three decades ago created 15 acres of flat land, […]