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W Hotel / Condos - Breaking Ground in Mid - Feb 2007



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From Hunter, shots of Kilroy Realty's latest campus Acadepmy Square, which has been rebranded as "Netflix on Vine" after the entire office portion was leased up by Netflix in their never-ending quest to gobble up every last bit of new office space in Hollywood!


The Academy / 1341 N Vine Street by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


The Academy / 1341 N Vine Street by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr



quick reminder of the project in a promotional video and their website:





https://www.kilroyrealty.com/property/netflix-vine
 
#2,273 ·
Yes, how long before we start calling it "Hollywood by NetFlix"?

With the convenience of the Red Line to the Valley and free Uber commutes, Netflix is really bolstering the image of Hollywood, Studio City, Toluca Lake and Silver Lake as places where adults work and live, and can do it without cars if they choose.
 
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^^ Yep! And even outside of transit options, there are several new 7 story apartment complexes coming online around that stretch of Hollywood, and a few more ambitious residential towers planned. You could easily walk to work at Netflix's offices if you wanted to! (that is if you don't mind spending $3,000/month on an apartment :runaway:)
 
#2,275 ·
You hit the major points for many. The younger ones are looking on, say, the new parts of the Boulevard out toward Western; the married ones looking to have kids are looking at Silver Lake, Toluca Lake, Studio City where you can live near active street life without having druggies and all-night partiers at your front door.

Netflix is doing an admirable job of facilitating these choices.

Of course, you can also look in the basin, but that's not a live choice for married adults intending to have children unless you are making a lot or move well south of Wilshire.
 
#2,276 ·
A question: Netflix is clearly taking all the offices and presumably the food/retail will be tailored to their needs.

But are they buying the residential tower also? The ads say that the project is an entire city block, which would imply the tower as well. Presumably they can consolidate their ST and LT residential arrangement for temporary projects. They could also allow new hires to stay for some period of time. But do they really need a whole tower?
 
#2,279 ·
Hollywood Walk of Fame Update Coming, City Selects Firm to Design Improvements

Hollywood Walk of Fame Update Coming, City Selects Firm to Design Improvements - NBC 4LA

The Los Angeles Board of Public Works Tuesday selected a design firm to develop a renovation plan for the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an effort expected to cost about $4 million.
Gensler. Its a start...……

IMO "Close of H BLVD, east-west block infront of HH" . (NOT Highland Ave).

Do it for the children (sic) LOL
 
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https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-amazon-netflix-land-grab-20190616-story.html

An interesting article on the spread of the studio/tech campus. Applies to Hollywood but really to many parts of LA and cities generally.

Architecture critics and urban planners have noted for 20 years that tech and media workers, young and old, are looking for low-rise, low-density, high open-space work environments. The elitism and anti-urbanism of high-rise towers is rejected as part of their life-style.

The new model is the university campus or movie studio. Those who are part of the creative community live and work together in open surroundings, with shopping, child care, parking and amenities placed nearby and convenient for use round-the-clock.

Also interesting is the similarity to the modern shopping center, which likewise adopts low-rise but well designed spaces that allow easy parking, access to a variety of shops, dining and housing. The new Century Plaza, SaMo Place and 3rd St..

Hollywood and Culver City should be getting more such development. It will be interesting to see if it is within the campus or also invigorates the “unsecure” streets as well.
 
#2,281 ·
Lights on Cahuenga and Selma? (similar to Santa Monica pier approach on Colorado Ave) Anyone have pictures? My friend posted it on her Social media.
 
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I would say MAYBE Broadway, but that's about it from the list. The rest are pretty important cross-town arteries (for private, commercial, AND bus transit). Some of the streets listed don't have uninterrupted/continuous parallel lanes to take on the direction/destinations of commuters (and the ones that do, definitely can't take the capacity that would be offset).
 
#2,287 ·
I'm OK with things like the Oscars, or Grammy's but when every other small town like San Fernando closes down a major artery to setup a ferris wheel for an old timey like fair is just wrong. In the middle of the week most times in the fall. It is as if they think that LA is some sort of Mayberry or something. It can take hours to get around some of the congestion these things create.
 
#2,290 ·
Why HOLLYWOOD boulevard?

This past week, two more pedestrians were killed by car on Hollywood Blvd. The Friday before last, another cyclist was tragically killed by a hit and run driver just off Hollywood Blvd.

This street is on the High Injury Network, acts as the face of LA for visitors, and is regularly closed for events. CicLAvia's Meet the Hollywoods showed just how friendly, safe, and successful a pedestrianized Hollywood can be.

San Francisco just voted to pedestrianize Market Street.

Manhattan just voted to prioritize buses and pedestrians on 14th street.

Now it's our turn.

At this first meeting, we will begin organizing and planning this grassroots movement to make Hollywood Blvd car-free year-round between La Brea and Highland.

https://hollywoodblvdforall.splashthat.com/

Momentum?
 
#2,293 ·
Did you know that the original plans for the Pantages Theatre were for a twelve-storey building? The two floors that exist right now were to be dedicated to theater, while the other ten floors were to be for office space. The 1929 Stock Market Crash occurred during the Pantages's construction, and those ten office floors were left unbuilt. Eventually in December of 2007, plans were announced to complete the theatre's original design, including those ten unbuilt floors, but those plans never materialized for some unknown reason. I guess the late-2000s Great Recession had something to do with the plans not going forward?

I want to ask this right now: Would the completion of those ten unbuilt office floors ruin or compromise the Pantages Theatre's historic status, knowing the changes in popular architectural styles in the decades since its opening? I mean, I don't think it's on the National Register of Historic Places or anything. So far, the Pantages has only been designated a "Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument" (since 1978).
 
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Closing for 1 night once in awhile is not the same as closing a 5 times longer section permanently.

I admit that something needs to be done, but really, I don't see anything in the plan that is going to get the thugs and dealers off the street. Until that happens there won't be enough traffic with money to support anything but booze, hot dogs and postcards. Even the tourists there mostly look broke.
 
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https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ho...nd-3-wounded-including-2-innocent-bystanders/

Pretty much all you need to say about Hollywood Blvd. and adjacent. Anytime you go there, there are mindblown druggies staring at you. Behind the storefronts you get hovels and huddled groups in the alleys pumping themselves full of something. Barbed wire around the crack hotels. The Hollywood Bowl shuttle has armed security and chain link fences around the loading buses.

Something more than pedestrianizing is needed to turn it into Main St. USA. This is complete abdication of the streets to the rule of the gun and the needle. More like Main St. Hell.
 
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Bird's eye view of proposed tower at 1725-1739 Bronson Avenue in Hollywood


This is a game changer for the area. Fingers crossed it happens.
 
#2,304 ·
HOLLYWOOD BLVD MASTER PLAN UPDATE.

I didn't know this was around. A great presentation of what is to come. Enhance the Boulevard from 30%/70% cars to 30%/70% people.



THe website

The presentation from 2020.

A more recent discussion from May 2022.


Seems like phase one was approved and will be implemented in 2023. Basically a closure of the parking lanes on the boulevard to simulate the concept, similar to Broadway St. in DTLA.
 
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