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From SSP:

Originally Posted by LAMetroGuy

Sunset & Gorden Mixed Use Project

Not sure if this has been posted here...

[Westsidelife]

Hollywood is in much need of more projects like these. That portion of Sunset Blvd. is dead and this will generate some sidewalk activity. Note that this project is located a block away from Columbia Square and a few blocks from Hollywood and Vine.

[CITYofDREAMS]

Originally Posted by Pudong

Perdonarme pero no se bien inglés, si alguien sabe español me gustaría saber cuál es el estado de la reforma de la torre Sunset & Vine:



¿Alguien tiene alguna foto de la zona? Cuando estuvimos en Los Ángeles se nos olvidó visitar la parte de Sunset Boulevard de Hollywood, me quedé con la pena porque me interesaba mucho ver el Palladium, Cinerama, Crossroads of the World y el Hollywood High School, Amoeba music... aun y todo en la guía de L.A que nos compranos advierte "este tramo de Sunset está frecuentado por prostitutas y vendedores de droga. Es aconsejable quedarse en el coche con la spuertas cerradas y sin objetos de valor a la vista. Si decide salir del coche y darse un paseo, no dé la impresión de andar sin rumbo fijo; guarde la cartera en un sitio discreto y no lleve joyas."
No se si será verdad eso... me cuesta creerlo al tener tantas cosas de interes... ¿No hay vida en esa zona teniendo tantos cines y tiendas de música? ¿El Palladium, Cinerama y el Hollywood High School ya no están en funcionamiento?

Muchísimas gracias, besos!

He likes to have an updates of the Sunset tower renovation.
He also would like to know if anybody has a pic of the area...when he was here he didn't visit this part of LA meaning Subset Blvd. He feel sorry he couldn't do it because he was interested in seeing it...Palladium, Cinerama, Crossroads of the World and Hollywood High School, Amoeba music... he also says that the guide he bought for LA warns "that this part of Sunset is frequented by prostitutes and drug dealers and advise to stay in the car with closed doors and valuables out of sight. If you decide to leave the car and take a walk don't give the impression that you don't know where are you going; keep the wallet in a safe place and don't carry jewelry"
He doesn't believe it's true and he is having hard toime beleiving it since there are many interesting landmarks there. Is there any life in the area? with so many theaters and music stores one would think it would. Hollywood Palladium, Cinerama, hollywood high School are they still open?

Thank you so much, kisses!!

Anybody wants to answer?

[soup or man]

Regarding Sunset and Gordon: Even though the base looks a bit bland (the box on the bottom of the second picture suggests a fast food joint), this is a VERY cool building.

[Westsidelife]

From Curbed LA:



CurbedWire: On top of Spaghetti

HOLLYWOOD - The Hollywood Chamber reports that the Gerding Edlen project proposed for the area surrounding the Spaghetti Factory on Sunset is moving forward. Via the Chamber: "The multi-faceted mixed-use project includes a 23-story residential tower with 301 for-sale condominiums, 40,000-sq.ft. of creative office space, 13,500-sq.ft. of ground floor retail space, and a new half-acre public park for the neighborhood. In addition, the existing Spaghetti Factory building would be preserved. A total of 508 parking stalls are proposed. Of particular interest is that about 60 of the units would be targeted at the under served mid-market segment, such as teachers, police officers, firefighers, and entry level professionals. The company has just begun the entitlement process for the project." Also from the Chamber, the Hollywood Garfield project has been approved by the City and will move forward. [Hollywood Chamber]

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unknown on sunset
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the crack house
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not much happenin on the W lot. though bernard got his ass shut down
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hiza curbed la!!

Originally Posted by curbed la

HOLLYWOOD - The Hollywood 411 blog lets us know that demolition has begun in earnest at the future site of the W Hollywood. "Major demolition has started to make way for the W Hollywood. Daddy's Bar is history." We also received a nice booklet from the W Hollywood in the mail which we've been trying to scan for the past week but our scanner software has malfunctioned. [CurbedWire Inbox/ Hollywood 411]

ill get a nice foto from the taft building when i go back there... whenever thats gona be.

better yet i will harness the power of the tubes!!

Originally Posted by hollywood411

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CIM Signs Zara for Vintage Building

May 9, 2007

By Bob Howard



6904 Hollywood Blvd. HOLLYWOOD-The CIM Group has signed fashion retailer Zara for a 17,000-sf store at CIM's redevelopment of the 55,000-sf 6904 Hollywood Blvd. building, across the stret from CIM's Hollywood & Highland project. Zara, a 990-store chain that is one of a group of companies owned by Spain’s Inditex, will become the latest in a series of national and regional boutiques that have opened their doors in Hollywood as part of the revitalization of the area's commercial districts in recent years.
According to Shaul Kuba, principal and co-founder the CIM Group, Zara will occupy half of the first two floors of the three-story 6904 Hollywood Blvd. building, which is the latest in a series of Hollywood-based CIM Group's acquisitions there. Kuba adds that Zara is among a handful of top apparel retailers being courted by retail developers across the country.

Kuba says that the CIM Group plans a full renovation of the 6904 Hollywood Blvd. building, which was built in the 1920s and is adjacent to the restored El Capitan and the historic Masonic temple. The CIM Group will strip the 6904 building to its original façade and will complete what Kuba calls “significant structural upgrades” to convert it into two floors of modern retail space topped by 22,000 sf of class A office space.

Zara is expected to open in summer 2008 near retailer H&M, which CIM signed for a 10,000-sf store at 6914 Hollywood Blvd. that is set to open this fall. Both retailers are directly across the street from CIM Group’s Hollywood & Highland Center, which features 387,000 sf of national and local fashion and luxury retailers, along with clubs, restaurants and the 3,400-seat Kodak Theatre.

Also at Hollywood & Highland, the CIM Group recently signed two other popular fashion retailers, Guess and the new XXI concept from Forever 21. Jeff Kreshek, a principal at CIM Group, says that the new retailers underscore Hollywood's emergence as one of the fastest growing commercial districts in Los Angeles, with major retailers investing in the area, abundant clubs and restaurants, new housing and steady demand for office space.

http://www.globest.com/news/902_902/.../160489-1.html

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damnit.. my picture link broke

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Originally Posted by godblessbotox

damnit.. my picture link broke

Yeah sure...

[saiholmes]

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is proposing the “Hollywood Freeway Central Park,” a freeway park deck from Bronson Avenue to Wilton Place above the 101 Freeway in Hollywood, California.

The Hollywood Central Park will provide direct benefits to the public, is precedent-setting example for new land use in the region, will create positive environmental impacts, will promote more active and healthy lifestyles, and will encourage the use of mass transit through transit-oriented development.

The 101 Freeway at the proposed location (Bronson Avenue to Wilton Place) is below street level, with the proposed park deck creating a brief tunnel for vehicular traffic while affording a street-level park for pedestrians. This specified location of the park would also provide a nexus between East Hollywood and Central Hollywood–alleviating the strain on the community from the initial creation of the freeway through this section of Hollywood.

In addition to the many obvious benefits of creating new park space, by placing a “cap” over one of the world’s most congested freeway system, the necessary ventilation system would be required to clean the air before re-circulating it back into the environment - creating a positive improvement in the air quality in Los Angeles.

This park will create an unprecedented 24 acres of new green space in Hollywood, directly adjacent to a high school currently under construction. Currently, the resident to open space ratio is the lowest of all of the City of Los Angeles. In fact, taking the City of Los Angeles as a whole, there is approximately 0.012 acres of open space per resident. Within the community of Hollywood, this figure is only 0.005 acres of open space per resident.

The Trust for Public Land conducted a study in 2003 and found that two-thirds of children in Los Angeles do not live near a park, playground, or other safe place to play. By comparison, New York City’s parks are much more equitably distributed with more than 91 percent of its children living within walking distance of a park. The Trust for Public Land state:

The case for new parks in Los Angeles is perhaps the most compelling of any American metropolitan area. More than 1.5 million children in Los Angeles County do not live within walking distance of a public park, and existing park space is disproportionately concentrated in the region’s wealthy neighborhoods. As a result, studies based on U.S. Census Bureau data show that Latino, African-American, and Asian Pacific Islander youth are dramatically less likely than their White counterparts to enjoy access to open space, playgrounds, and other exercise facilities.

The 80,000+ residents including approximately 21,000 children that live within one-mile square mile in this neighborhood will benefit from the promotion of a more active and healthy lifestyle. With local transit, individual transportation, or simply by walking to the park, the population that will benefit from this park is innumerable. To give a sense of the demographics of the area, the region of Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange County combined rank 43rd in the nation with a median household income of $45,913. The median income for this one-mile area is $23,481 - nearly half the region’s median income level. In addition, 75.2 percent of this one square-mile population is non-white minorities according to U.S. Census bureau statistics with 53.3 percent of Hispanic ethnicity.

Also, utilizing the air space above the Hollywood Freeway where it is below-grade is not only an exemplary illustration of efficiency and an alternative form of land use, but it is also financially prudent. Preliminary costs to plan and construct the Park are estimated to be less than the cost of purchasing the raw land in the surrounding neighborhood.

To both the east and west of the proposed location, there are Metro Red LineTM subway stations within walking distance and several transit stops nearby, making this a transit-oriented development.

Locally, there is a strong local base of support for this project quoted in every local major media outlet; with all four neighborhood councils endorsing this plan; and with the strong support of elected officials and several government agencies. The Hollywood Central Park Coalition, comprised of these supporters meets bi-monthly to discuss the progress, address questions from the community, and/or develop solutions related to Hollywood Central Park.

http://www.hollywoodfreewaycentralpark.org/

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The concrete parking lot is gone for the W Hotel

[PotatoGuy]

That park will be so awesome when its finished

[godblessbotox]

someone i work with got alot of pics of the model of the W buildling located in the lobby of the taft building, do you guys want those posted?

[klamedia]

Yes! Yes!

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Originally Posted by godblessbotox

someone i work with got alot of pics of the model of the W buildling located in the lobby of the taft building, do you guys want those posted?

.... could you!

[godblessbotox]

ok, will do. have to watch sleepy hallow first

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On Thursday i drove by Holly-High and those Shops mentioned above next to Jimmy KIMS show were all closed down and it was around 3:00 pm.
Do you guys think there already moved out??

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^ Nope, power went out!!!