CULVER CITY | Cumulus Transit Oriented Project | 320ft | 30 fl | T/O

I commute to the La Cienega/Jefferson station every weekday morning and it was hard not to notice the huge construction site. I became curious, took some photos, and decided to look up what was being built. Below are some photos I've taken

18 October 2017 - The former MRad architecture is the last building standing on the construction site.
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="CjfvvOe"><a href="//imgur.com/CjfvvOe"></a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

18 October 2017 - another shot
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="8T0vxJ4"><a href="//imgur.com/8T0vxJ4">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

5 December 2017 - MRad building is now gone (on a side note you can see all the smoke from the raging Thomas Fire in the horizon)
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="BXPG113"><a href="//imgur.com/BXPG113">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

7 December 2017 - Site is almost completely clear of debris
<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="J5eK8xJ"><a href="//imgur.com/J5eK8xJ">View post on imgur.com</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Welcome and thanks for the very interesting post!

This area has been talked about for large developments for some years now. It will be good to see some of it actually starting. Hopefully even some nice design.

But one question to a local commuter: I go this way occasionally to LAX or Inglewood and traffic is very poor south of the 10 around Rodeo, Jefferson, etc. Is this going to come to a complete stop when these projects are complete? Even the Expo Line only mitigates a small amount of the east/west traffic and none of the north/south traffic. And it seems obvious that everything surrounding this spot is going to grow (Inglewood, Playa Vista, Venice, Culver City, Crenshaw, etc.).

(repost from the Westside development thread :cheers


So I did just a bit of sleuthing on Carmel Partners website, and sure enough they have a brand new set of renders out for "Cumulus"! From the page for Cumulus on the Carmel Partners website (sorry about the size!):








There are plenty more renders of the project at the link above. Personally, I love this!! This developments one of the nicest TODs around the Expo Line in development in my opinion, and knowing Carmel Partners previous work (Atelier in DTLA, 8th and Grand etc.) I have no doubt this will turn out fantastically. Here's hoping we see more action on the lot soon besides the site prep :cheers:

I think the first set of pictures have to grow and the second set shrink! :lol:

It does have a nice scale to it and a look like it is made for living in rather than a luxury showpiece which, say DT or Century City are fixated on.

Foundation Work Begins for 1,200-Unit Cumulus Development
Carmel Partners is building a large mixed-use complex at La Cienga/Jefferson Station.

by STEVEN SHARP on July 02, 2018, 9:00AM
photos by HUNTER KERHART
Following months of site preparation, San Francisco-based developer Carmel Partners has started laying rebar to support the 11-acre Cumulus project next to La Cienega/Jefferson Station.

The development site, once the site of a radio broadcast facility, is slated for the construction of a seven-story building and a 30-story tower that will create a combined 1,210 apartments and 100,000 square feet of commercial space.

The bulk of the project's residential units will be situated in the squat mid-rise structure - designed by TCA Architects - which will front La Cienega and Jefferson Boulevards. Plans call for a total of 910 apartments in addition amenities and ground-floor retail and restaurant space.

The remaining 300 apartments will be located in a tower toward the northeast perimeter of the site, a 320-foot-tall structure that is being designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz.

Multi-use buildings are set to wrap around a one-acre internal park, designed by Studio MLA.

Click to expand...

https://urbanize.la/post/foundation-work-begins-1200-unit-cumulus-development











more photos in the link :cheers:

I like the development. But I'm still interested in what the city plans to do about traffic mitigation. This area is going to need an underpass or some other creative work to keep it from becoming gridlock from 7AM to 10PM.

Maybe send the Inglewood monorail up here? :lol:

It will already have rail station access and is less than 3/4 mile to the freeway (almost as good of a situation to be in as Pershing Square. This spot would be pretty ideal for anyone working in Santa Monica or USC area.

croyboy said:

It will already have rail station access and is less than 3/4 mile to the freeway (almost as good of a situation to be in as Pershing Square. This spot would be pretty ideal for anyone working in Santa Monica or USC area.

Click to expand...

The rail access is east/west and the freeways are near the intersection of the 10 and 405 which is not good about 16 hours a day and doesn't help you get to midtown.

The biggest problem is that La Cienega is the principle route from LAX to midtown and the main route through the Baldwin Hills; when it hits Rodeo, Jefferson, etc., it jams up most of the day, sometimes literally from Manchester to the 10.

LAX, Inglewood, Culver City, Mid-Wilshire, Beverly Center, etc., are booming with new construction, which will just add to the problem.

The county will let La Cienega jam up. They've let it jam up so far, so 1,210 more units on a block (likely with commuters that will choose to drive rather than take the Expo Line) will barely be a dent in the sigalert data (more like a scratch).

Even before this project was conceived, I wished Jefferson Blvd would've at least traveled further north to meet up at Washington or Venice somehow.

croyboy said:

The county will let La Cienega jam up. They've let it jam up so far, so 1,210 more units on a block (likely with commuters that will choose to drive rather than take the Expo Line) will barely be a dent in the sigalert data (more like a scratch).

Even before this project was conceived, I wished Jefferson Blvd would've at least traveled further north to meet up at Washington or Venice somehow.

Click to expand...

Plus 100k commercial space. Unfortunately the block they are on is very close to the station so it holds up anybody that is headed there from the south. Plus their is 100k s/f of commercial space (fortunately reduced from the original plan of 500k).

Even if traffic conditions (involving congestion) were more ideal, 500k still would've been quite much given the current population demands of the immediate area. Even 100k will take some time to occupy. Finishing up Hauser Blvd down to Rodeo Rd might've helped local traffic, but given the current street grid, there's little to be done without getting expensively creative (or even invasive to the current homes and state/local park land).

CUMULUS by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


CUMULUS by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


CUMULUS by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


CUMULUS by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr

16 Nov 2018 - Shot from the La Cienega/Jefferson light rail platform

<blockquote class="imgur-embed-pub" lang="en" data-id="a/0g8XNMf"><a href="//imgur.com/0g8XNMf">Cumulus Transit Oriented Project - 16 Nov 2018</a></blockquote><script async src="//s.imgur.com/min/embed.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

coming along nicely! :cheers:

Hunter is back with his latest photos, boy oh boy is Cumulus starting to make an impact on the skyline! :cheers:


Cumulus by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


Cumulus by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr



Cumulus by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr


Cumulus by HunterKerhart.com, on Flickr

And hot off the "presses" here is the Urbanize article that goes with them :cheers::

Cumulus Begins to Rise at La Cienega/Jefferson Station
The 1,200-unit mega complex is rising next to the Expo Line.

JANUARY 16, 2019, 12:55PM KATIE KERHART

Work is well underway at the Cumulus development in West Adams, with the concrete podium for the tower already several levels above ground.

San Francisco-based developer Carmel Partners is behind the behemoth complex, which sits on an 11-acre site that was once occupied by Cumulus Media's radio broadcast facility. The project will consist of a combined 1,210 apartments and 100,000 square feet of commercial space divided between two separate buildings.

A podium-type mid-rise structure fronting La Cienega and Jefferson Boulevards is being designed by TCA Architects. It will house a majority of the project's residential units - a total of 910 apartments - as well as amenities, and ground-floor retail and restaurant space.

The second building is a 30-story tower being designed by Chicago-based firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz. It will hold the remaining 300 apartments atop a parking podium and additional amenities.

Click to expand...

https://urbanize.la/post/cumulus-begins-rise-la-cienegajefferson-station (more pics at the link)

1,210 apartments!! Man, if you built like a 100 of these throughout LA County, and put them around stops of the Expo, Green, Blue and Gold lines... we'd start to take a REAL bite out of L.A.'s housing crisis :cheers:

Videographer (and SSC Contributor) went out and shot a great video of the project recently :cheers:

Culver City or West Adams District, LA?
Google maps has the property in LA city limits.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Great Video. Amazing views for residents.

Technically LA, but probably more helpful to call it Culver City.

But you probably shouldn't pay attention to me since I don't believe this is the West Adams Dist., which ends way east of there. This is new bureaucratic nomenclature, like calling Washington Blvd. in DTLA "South LA".