Location: 11th St. and Figueroa St.
Function: Mixed Use | 860 Units | 222 Hotel Rooms | 250,000 SF Retail
Developer: The Moinian Group (http://www.moiniangroup.com/)
Architect: RTKL Associates (http://www.rtkl.com/)
Completion: 2011

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Construction is imminent.

From SSP:

Well it looks like I have to issue a retraction. LA Central sure looks like it's headed to a groundbreaking very soon. They have temporary lighting on the property and they are building a construction fence out to the sidewalk on Figueroa and out to the street on 12th. That jibes with the renderings. Take a look...



Two pics from 12th street

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Now two from Figueroa

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This one is blurry, but the sign says "Morley Construction Company" and they've locked some small earth moving equipment behind the fence that looks like it could be used for the asphalt excavation. Nothing as big as a front end loader. More like some bobcat type stuff.

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:banana:

Great news. Would it be impossible to put the height in meters? Those feets tells nothing to me.

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175m & 139m

Great news. Would it be impossible to put the height in meters? Those feets tells nothing to me.

The metric system is the work of the devil.:lol: I'm sure a mod can edit it though.

LA Central is a part of the new LA Sports and Entertainment district...or LA Live. Think of it as a Times Square West..but not.

From SSP:

Here are some pictures I took after work. Looks like they also added a small portion of fencing along Flower Street - also partial width only and mid-block like the others.

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And here are the Nokia Plaza pylons...

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If that band of advertising along Figueroa is LED screens, that will really help to brighten up that block, extending the "Times Square" effect an additional block, and hopefully energizing that area beyond times when Staples has an event.

wow another great tower for downtown hopefully more development will follow after this and the Ritz Carlton project are finished.

If that band of advertising along Figueroa is LED screens, that will really help to brighten up that block, extending the "Times Square" effect an additional block, and hopefully energizing that area beyond times when Staples has an event.

Who knows? Mabye the 'LA Live' ( ;) ) effect will start with Concerto.

Prep work is about to start methinks.

Pics taken this morning by LosAngelesBeauty from SSP:

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Wow! I guess L.A. Central is going to break ground sooner rather than later. It would be great if L.A. Live and L.A. Central we're completed at the same time.

This will break ground in 3 weeks.

Looks like a very nice project:)

The LA Central site:

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wow....it would be wonderful to have so many screens in tht area. It would make the place look really "alive".


Is there a date for construction to begin?

about 2 weeks :)

September 15, 2007

L.A. Central Site
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October 14, 2007

And yes NOTHING happening at LA Central yet...
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it's a nice project for LA!!

yes, very good for the skyline i think

November 3, 2007

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November 24, 2007

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The metric system is the work of the devil.:lol: I'm sure a mod can edit it though.

LA Central is a part of the new LA Sports and Entertainment district...or LA Live. Think of it as a Times Square West..but not.

Broo, it's LA men..
It could never be like Timesquare. It will be better!!!!!!:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

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good for los angeles

Who's the hotel tenant? Any other info?

Looking good...

March 2010

New Life for L.A. Central: Moinian Extends Financing, Parking Returns (http://blogdowntown.com/2010/03/5205-new-life-for-la-central-moinian-extends-financing)

After nine months fenced off and vacant, an $80 million piece of land across the street from Staples Center has been buzzing with life this week. Parking operations returned to the site over the weekend, and crews have been busy working to clear weeds, trim landscaping and patch cracked asphalt.

The four-acre site, to be developed into a project known as "L.A. Central," has spent the last two years embroiled in lawsuits, but property owner Moinian Group said today that it has extended the project's financing. That will allow it to move forward on what may end up to be a scaled-back version of the development.

"This is a major step forward in ultimately developing the site," said Oskar Brecher, Moinian's director of development. The property occupies the entire block bounded by Figueroa, 11th, Flower and 12th streets.

Original plans called for two towers 53 and 37 stories, 860 market-rate units, a 222 room hotel and 250,000 square feet of retail. While the firm is working to extend those entitlements, what gets built will "straddle between the very ambitious project we had designed for the site and what the current possibilities happen to be," Brecher said.

In November, Wachovia declared Moinian to be in default on a $55 million loan it had given the company for the property. More recently it filed a lawsuit against founder Joseph Moinian and developer Henry Shahery, claiming that the two were liable for the amount under a personal guaranty they had signed.

That suit was withdrawn last week, and Brecher said that Moinian has "extended the financing on the property for several years."

The site was fenced off in June of 2009 after an injunction was issued forbidding Moinian from operating parking. AEG, who sold Moinian the property in 2006, had filed a suit claiming that the sale agreement gave it the exclusive right to parking operation. That case has now been settled.

"We have an agreement with AEG to jointly operate the parking on the property," Brecher said. "That, I think, is in everybody's interest. Now we have worked it out so that we're both happy."

Still unresolved are several smaller cases related to services provided in project design and entitlement. One of those was filed by architecture firm RTKL, who alleges that it is owed $3.6 million on a $14 million design contract. That case is scheduled to go to trial in April, but settlement talks are underway.

"We made some progress, but we need to come to an understanding all around," Brecher said. "It's not entirely clear right now whether we can do that without being adversarial."