Rams could build a team training site in Woodland Hills
The Super Bowl champions could soon set up camp a kick away from Victory Boulevard.The Rams are in negotiations to buy the site of the former Woodland Hills Promenade shopping...
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Chargers reveal plans to build headquarters and training facility in El Segundo
The Chargers are prepared to take the next step in their move to Los Angeles with an agreement to construct their headquarters and training facility in El Segundo.When relocating from...
Centros comerciales vacios, tiendas cerradas: el coronavirus cambiara para siempre la forma en que compramos?
El pronóstico para los restaurantes y otros minoristas obligados a cerrar por el nuevo brote de coronavirus es tan sombrío, que se espera que muchos omitan los pagos de la...
Los Angeles apartment owners race to add luxury amenities
Competition for tenants who can pay top rents has grown so fierce that landlords are loading up their new buildings with goodies unheard of in years past when a swimming...
The Silver Lake Happy Foot Sad Foot sign is getting the boot
There’s something about the revolving sign on Sunset Boulevard that pulls you in, this tacky talisman for Silver Lake that sticks in people’s minds.It’s a before-and-after ad for Sunset Foot...
All that online grocery shopping is causing a cold storage shortage
Deep in a Vernon warehouse, barrels of frozen mango puree from Mexico are stacked four stories high. Hams for Christmas are flash-frozen as June temperatures climb outside.Inside this dimly lit...
City of Hope to invest $1 billion in new Irvine cancer hospital
City of Hope will invest $1 billion in a new hospital and research center on the site of a former air base in Irvine that will enhance the way cancer...
NeueHouse to expand co-working space into historic Bradbury Building
NeueHouse, which provides co-working space to creative types, will open its second Los Angeles outpost in the famous Victorian-era Bradbury Building in downtown’s historic core.The downtown branch is intended to...
Propietarios eliminan escaleras y muros para atraer a inquilinos como Google y Netflix
En enero, cuando Google anunció que ocuparía gran parte del ex centro comercial Westside Pavilion -que se está renovando como oficinas-, la cuestión mostró claramente cómo la tecnología está afectando...
Landlords rip out escalators and walls to attract tenants like Google and Netflix
Google’s January announcement that it would take over much of the failed Westside Pavilion shopping center, which is becoming offices, showed technology disrupting retail in the most concrete of ways.But...
Luxury Art Deco-inspired skyscraper planned for Miracle Mile in Los Angeles
The Miracle Mile has demonstrated new vitality in recent years as apartment complexes with shops and restaurants opened in advance of mega developments at the Los Angeles County Museum...
Historic Sportsmen’s Lodge to get a $100-million makeover
Sportsmen’s Lodge has a storied past as one of the San Fernando Valley’s most cherished institutions, stretching from its days in the 1930s as a trout fishing attraction and later...
L.A. Care signs one of the year’s biggest leases – and it’s on downtown’s fringes
In one of the largest office leases of the year in Los Angeles, insurance provider L.A. Care has agreed to take over a recently renovated building on the edge of...
Co-working spaces: Not just for start-up bros anymore
Co-working is often more pleasant these days than putting in eight hours at a traditional office.If you’d prefer a workspace that looks like a chic hotel lobby with waiters at...
Prime Beverly Hills development site sells for $130 million to New York developer
A long-vacant prime lot on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills has sold for $130 million to an international partnership that plans to build upmarket condominiums on the site.New York luxury...
Netflix to expand again in Hollywood with two more office leases
Video-streaming giant Netflix continues to rapidly expand its presence in Hollywood, g two more leases in the neighborhood and furthering its position as one of the biggest office tenants in...
‘Star Trek’ game maker Scopely lands lease in new Culver City office building
Mobile games creator Scopely agreed to lease an office building under construction in Culver City as rapidly growing entertainment-related companies continue to scoop up new real estate developments in the...
Stratolaunch’s gigantic twin-bodied plane takes its first flight
The Stratolaunch twin-hulled airplane, its wings stretching wider than a football field, took its first flight Saturday morning and spent more than two hours soaring above California’s Mojave Desert.In taking...
No sign of retreat for growing Los Angeles County office market
The Los Angeles County office market has been on the upswing since 2013 and showed no sign of slipping in the first quarter as rents moved up and vacancy declined.Technology...
Warner Music turns former Ford assembly plant into Arts District music factory
Employees of Warner Music Group Inc. for the last several weeks have been toiling in the same red brick building where men who could have been their great-grandfathers put together...
The Fox lot is one asset Rupert Murdoch wouldn’t sell to Disney – for good reason
In the end, the legendary Los Angeles birthplace of what became the vast Fox film empire was just too dear to part with.The historic Century City lot on Pico Boulevard...
New York co-living company plans $100 million expansion with Los Angeles apartment developer
Co-living is one the newest trends in urban housing, and it has prompted a New York operator to with a Los Angeles developer to create $100 million worth of...
Grove builder Rick Caruso reimagines Miramar resort with splashes of seaside splendor
In a quiet garden at the Rosewood Miramar Beach resort in Montecito is a white marble statue of the Buddha, laughing while four small children clamber up his side.The latter...
Construction at massive Oceanwide Plaza in downtown L.A. remains stalled
Construction of Oceanwide Plaza, a $1-billion real estate development in downtown Los Angeles, remains stalled amid questions about whether the Beijing-based developer can find the funds to complete it.Work on...
In the ’20s, this tower housed fancy cars. Now it will house travelers and tourists
Ninety years ago, workers hurrying to their jobs on Spring Street witnessed a remarkable sight: a swanky garage that lifted Ford Model A’s and other Jazz Age roadsters as high...
Construction halts on $1-billion mixed-use complex in downtown L.A.
Construction on Oceanwide Plaza, one of the biggest real estate development projects in downtown Los Angeles, has stalled in what may be a shortfall in financing from the project’s Chinese...
Office tenants keep growing in Los Angeles despite fears of economic slowdown
Office leasing in Los Angeles County stayed strong in the fourth quarter of 2018 and is expected to perform well in the months ahead despite concerns that the market may...
Google leases Westside Pavilion as former shopping mecca transforms into tech offices
Last year, Google transformed the historic Spruce Goose hangar into a high-tech outpost to serve its ambitions to become a leading producer of Hollywood content on its YouTube platform.On Tuesday,...
You’ll share this apartment with a stranger – but don’t dare call it a dorm
The first step into a posh new apartment building near Marina del Rey feels like a mistake. There’s no lobby — instead the door opens to a lounge and kitchen.The...
Plush indoor-outdoor office building to rise near Playa Vista and 405 Freeway
In a bet on the continuing allure of Silicon Beach, one of the neighborhood’s largest developers will erect a deluxe speculative office building near Playa Vista intended to appeal to...
Historic home of clothier Desmond’s is ready for its comeback on Broadway
Office workers will soon toil where Angelenos of their great-grandparents’ generation once tried on shoes and purchased the most au courant styles in hats.The elegant former home of Desmond’s, one...
Council backs historic status for just two L.A. Times buildings, clearing way for redevelopment
The Los Angeles City Council granted historic-cultural monument status to two former Los Angeles Times buildings in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday — rejecting a bid by preservationists to include...
Times building designed by William Pereira not a monument, council committee says
A bid to secure historic cultural monument status for former Los Angeles Times buildings suffered a partial setback Tuesday when the City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee decided...
Prime Beverly Hills development site is sold to owners of next-door Beverly Hilton
A former department store site in Beverly Hills that has been slated for a $1.2-billion hotel and condominium complex is being sold to its next-door neighbors and rivals — the...
L.A. City Council committee endorses $1.2-billion expansion of convention center and hotel
A proposal for a $1.2-billion subsidized development that would add hundreds of hotel rooms at L.A. Live and substantially enlarge the Los Angeles Convention Center was moved forward Tuesday by...
Rapidly expanding Netflix grabs another big block of Hollywood office space
In another big expansion of its Hollywood footprint, video-streaming giant Netflix will lease 355,000 square feet of offices in a mixed-use complex under construction on Vine Street.The company will rent...
$1.2-billion convention center-hotel project would require nearly $100-million public subsidy, report says
Downtown Los Angeles’ next proposed mega real estate development — a $1.2-billion project to add hundreds of hotel rooms at L.A. Live and substantially enlarge the Los Angeles Convention Center...
New owner of historic fashion bastion spending $170 million to woo other creative types
Downtown L.A.’s California Market Center is absolutely enormous and yet oddly invisible to ersby.It has more space inside than the nearby Wilshire Grand Center, the tallest building in the West...
He planned L.A.’s development. Now he builds it
Con Howe, 68, is a managing director of real estate company Cityview, which develops apartments and mixed-use projects in high-growth markets such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver.Howe, who...
The Beverly Center got a $500-million makeover. Will that do in the era of Amazon and outdoor malls?
The owners of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, one of the region’s largest malls, just bet $500 million that people still want to shop indoors.The hulking structure was the...
Housing boom brings a new crop of tall towers
High-rise living, once a rarity in Southern California, is gaining new favor as reviving urban centers such as downtown L.A. and Hollywood attract thousands of new residents in search of...
Anaheim, the home of family friendly Disneyland, now wants to draw adults to its new breweries
Anaheim may have a reputation as a wholesome family playground because of its famous theme park, but off-duty adults have always long been able to find a cold brew in...
L.A. County office market notches another solid quarter amid sustained tech boom
The Los Angeles County office market notched another solid quarter for landlords as rents moved up and occupancy held steady.Expanding technology companies such as shopping app Honey again led the...
CBS Television City expected to be sold to Los Angeles investor
Broadcast giant CBS Corp. has identified Los Angeles real estate investment company Hackman Capital Partners as the buyer for its storied Television City production studios.Hackman Capital has been selected by...
With 35 stories and a block-long video display, the Circa complex gives DTLA a Times Square vibe
Even in a time of roaring apartment construction in Los Angeles, the new Circa complex downtown is hard to miss.Its twin 35-story towers overlooking Staples Center are visible from a...
Netflix signs big lease for Hollywood office tower being built on Sunset Boulevard
Video-streaming giant Netflix will dramatically increase its Hollywood footprint by leasing an entire office tower under construction on Sunset Boulevard.Netflix has agreed to rent Epic, a 13-story office tower being...
Self-driving cars are coming, but developers aren’t reducing parking yet, survey finds
Self-driving cars may be inevitable, but few office developers want to spend money preparing for the changes they will bring.That’s the conclusion of a recent survey of real estate professionals,...
Fancy South Korean grocer PK Market to open first U.S. store in downtown L.A.
At popular new supermarkets in Seoul, customers can do more than order a prime cut of meat, trimmed to their wishes. They can sit down at a small eatery in...
Cultural Heritage Commission s monument status for former L.A. Times buildings
The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission on Thursday recommended that the city grant historic cultural monument status to a downtown office complex formerly occupied by the Los Angeles Times.Preservationists applied...
Studio lot gets new office building as Hollywood glitz beguiles tenants
Sound technician Paul Sandweiss likes working on a studio lot because it feels, well, like a sanctuary — but with a slice of movie magic.“Sometimes you see the most interesting...
City officials recommend monument status for three Los Angeles Times buildings
A campaign by preservationists to garner monument status for three buildings the Los Angeles Times occupied for decades will have the of city staff when the Cultural Heritage Commission...
Warner Center shakeup as Anthem Inc. makes $90-million office move
When Anthem Inc. departs from its longtime Warner Center offices next year for new digs nearby it will leave behind one of the biggest empty buildings for lease in Los...
Arizona State to expand into downtown L.A. at historic Herald Examiner building
Students from Arizona State University’s journalism school will soon be typing away in the Herald Examiner building in downtown Los Angeles, the long-vacant home of one of the great newspapers...
Cars soon will be unwelcome on Playa Vista’s main drag. And a lot of people are happy about it
On any given day, cars roll slowly down the main shopping street of Playa Vista, just as they do in small towns everywhere.After all, when it came to building a...
At the historic downtown L.A. Tower Theatre, Apple plans a store and event space unlike any other
The Tower Theatre was the place in 1927 where Angelenos first heard the wonder of “talkie” movies when it hosted the premiere of “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson.Now, the...
Online coupon firm Honey taking over historic Coca-Cola plant in Arts District
In one of Los Angeles’ largest headquarters moves this year, the company behind online coupon tool Honey has leased a newly refurbished building in the Arts District that was built...
City commission will consider bid to declare Los Angeles Times buildings historic-cultural monuments
A bid to gain protected status for three Los Angeles Times buildings moved forward Thursday when the Cultural Heritage Commission agreed to consider an application to make them historic-cultural monuments.Monument...
Insatiable demand for creative space on Westside pushes Class B office rents past high-rises
Office rents in Los Angeles County moved up in the second quarter on strong leasing among growing firms in technology and other creative fields such as entertainment and media.The Westside...
USC cancer institute funded by Larry Ellison finds home in West L.A.
A pioneering cancer-research center funded by tech mogul Larry Ellison will launch next April in an office complex being built near a light-rail stop in West Los Angeles.The Lawrence J....
Desarrollaran nuevo y elegante resort cerca de la sede del festival Coachella
Cada año, el Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival y su evento hermano de música country atraen a cientos de miles de personas al desierto, lejos de los restaurantes de...
Preservationists call for historic status for Los Angeles Times buildings, threatening redevelopment plans
Preservationists hope to secure city monument status for three historic Los Angeles Times buildings, which could hinder a plan to redevelop the downtown block where they stand.City officials last week...
Sprawling casita-style resort being built in Coachella near music festival venues
Every year, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and its sister country music event bring hundreds of thousands of revelers to the desert, far from the trendy restaurants, hotels...
Its design has been scorned, but L.A. Live has been crucial to downtown’s resurgence
When the NBA All-Star Weekend returned to Los Angeles in February for the third time since 2004, it was no lucky fluke for the city.It’s a running joke in the...
$450-million office, housing and retail complex underway on Vine in Hollywood
A block in Hollywood once slated to hold a museum dedicated to the Academy Awards is being transformed into a spacious $450-million campus of offices, apartments and stores.Kilroy Realty Corp....
Engineering firm Arup signs $57-million deal to leave Playa Vista for downtown’s Wilshire Grand
In one of the largest corporate relocations in Los Angeles this year, real estate engineering firm Arup has agreed to move its regional offices from the growing beach community of...
Condos, restaurants, an elementary school. How an 80-story skyscraper could transform Bunker Hill
Even in an era of mega real estate developments in downtown Los Angeles, the Angels Landing proposal stands out.On a steep, barren hillside next to the landmark Angels Flight railway,...
Fuller Theological Seminary leaving Pasadena and putting campus up for sale
Fuller Theological Seminary will move to Pomona by 2021, freeing its 13-acre campus in Pasadena’s central business district to be sold for new uses and development.Fuller is acquiring downtown land...
San Francisco investor is building $80-million creative offices in desirable Playa Vista
Construction is underway on an $80-million office building in Playa Vista as the Los Angeles neighborhood continues to draw businesses in creative fields.A team led by San Francisco investor Rockwood...
AEG proposes $1.2-billion expansion of L.A. Convention Center and JW Marriott hotel
The last time the Los Angeles Convention Center was expanded in 1997, the Lakers were still playing in Inglewood and Richard Riordan had just won a second term as mayor.Since...
Developer Kacy Keys converts old Sears into new experiences
Kacy Keys, 47, is head of development in the West for Seritage Growth Properties, which is converting many former department stores to new uses.Among them is the landmark Sears in...
How much has once-dreary Hollywood changed? Try $6,600 a month for a 2-bedroom apartment
Monthly rents for a deluxe apartment tower called Argyle House opening next month start at $3,395 for a studio, $4,395 for a one-bedroom and $6,595 for two bedrooms.The location? Not...
L.A.-area office rental market holds steady as tech, entertainment companies expand
Growth among Los Angeles-area companies, especially those in fields related to technology and entertainment, kept the office rental market stable last quarter.Neighborhoods such as El Segundo and the Westside are...
Controversial $1-billion Hollywood high-rise project relaunched by developer
The developer of a stalled $1-billion real estate project near the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood will try again with a new proposal that prioritizes housing over commercial uses.Millennium Partners...
South Korean gaming giant Netmarble takes offices in downtown L.A.
Netmarble Corp., a fast-growing South Korean gaming and entertainment company, will move its U.S. offices to downtown Los Angeles in a coup for area landlords who have been trying to...
Wells Fargo Center gets $60-million upgrade as Bunker Hill skyscrapers grapple with competition
The Wells Fargo Center, with its granite walls soaring more than 50 stories into the air, has long been considered one of the best office addresses in downtown Los Angeles.But...
Ratkovich Co. sells interest in mixed-use Bloc project in downtown L.A.
Los Angeles developer Ratkovich Co. has sold its interest in the Bloc office, hotel and shopping complex in downtown Los Angeles to one of its financial partners, National Real Estate...
As China puts the brakes on overseas investment, Los Angeles’ development boom takes a hit
Last year, Chinese investors interested in buying or developing property in Southern California peppered World Trade Center Los Angeles officials with questions about how best to break into the market.What’s...
Historic high-rise sold as downtown L.A.’s former business district thrives
One of downtown’s oldest tall buildings, the former Los Angeles offices of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, sold this week for nearly $70 million to a residential developer.Now...
Here’s why pot sellers are paying prime rents for warehouse and storefront space
Growing up in Minnesota, Stephanie Smith dreamed of being a golf pro. Instead, the mother of five who lives in Pacific Palisades has ended up in the unlikeliest of trades.She...
Chinese investment in Los Angeles and U.S. real estate plunged in 2017 on new restrictions
Speculation that Chinese investments in U.S. real estate would plummet after Beijing enacted tighter regulations on outbound investments last August has proved correct.There was a 55% drop in new Chinese...
Amazon Books heading to Pacific Palisades as new village center takes shape
Just a few years ago it was said that Pacific Palisades’ tiny commercial center had the beaten-down aura of a Midwestern Main Street where the mom-and-pop shops have been driven...
Struggling Westside Pavilion to be converted to office space for rent
Westside Pavilion, a longtime landmark Los Angeles shopping center, will be converted to mostly office space in the wake of losing its anchor department stores and the rise of online...
Southern California home prices in January rose at their fastest pace in 44 months
Home prices in Southern California jumped 11.4% in January — the largest year-over-year gain in 44 months as the region’s already sizzling housing market got even hotter.The double-digit rise in...
Long Beach civic center is getting a $900-million makeover that’s a model for other cities
Long Beach City Hall is not long for this world.The concrete-winged tower looks stout enough, but it’s not someplace you’d choose to be in an earthquake. Dedicated in the bicentennial...
NoMad hotel s crop of boutique inns giving second life to L.A.’s historic office buildings
The Bank of Italy once owned one of the finest office buildings in downtown Los Angeles, a 12-story neoclassical monument built in 1923 with towering Doric columns, an ornate, gold-ceilinged...
L.A.-area office rents rise as once second-tier markets gain favor with new players
Office landlords in Los Angeles County neighborhoods formerly considered declasse raised rents last quarter, reflecting the shift in tenants’ perceptions of desirable addresses.Markets such as Mid-Wilshire, Culver City and Hollywood...
Architect Frank Gehry unveils designs for long-delayed Grand Avenue project
Visitors who come at all hours every day to marvel at architect Frank Gehry’s gleaming Walt Disney Concert Hall routinely turn their backs on the eyesore across Grand Avenue in...
Downtown L.A.’s development boom heads west with a big new housing and retail complex
A large-scale residential and hotel complex will be proposed for the former headquarters campus of the Metropolitan Water District on Sunset Boulevard as Los Angeles’ development boom expands into blocks...
Pacific Union rebrands three Los Angeles home sales brokerages under its banner
Pacific Union International, the eighth-largest real estate brokerage in the country, is expanding into the Los Angeles market.As part of the change, the brokerage’s name will immediately replace those of...
$100-million outdoor coastal mall replacing obsolete Long Beach hotel
A sprawling, run-down hotel near the water in southeast Long Beach is being replaced with a laid-back $100-million outdoor mall that will make food and leisure front and center.The focus...
Commercial property industry is in a ‘good place’ with latest tax legislation, analyst says
Analyst Spencer Levy has tracked the latest tax legislation through Congress, keeping a watchful eye on its potential impact on people who invest and work in the commercial real estate...
Universal Hilton plans new tower as tourists flock to Harry Potter’s wizard world
The biggest hotel in the San Fernando Valley could get a lot bigger as Harry Potter fans heading to Hogwarts flock to the inn.The owner of the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal...
Why Rupert Murdoch is keeping the Fox lot in Century City even as he sells to Disney
Fox’s decision to hang onto its historic Century City studio lot even as it sold much of its assets to Disney in this week’s blockbuster $52.4-billion deal is a testament...
Shopping mall giant Westfield being sold to French real estate firm in $16-billion deal
Westfield Corp., which operates upscale shopping malls in Los Angeles and in dozens of other U.S. cities and in Britain, agreed to be acquired for nearly $16 billion by French...
Republique owners opening restaurant in downtown L.A.’s historic Herald Examiner building
The flurry of new development among some long-neglected blocks of downtown Los Angeles is pulling in thousands of new residents and overnight tourists — and some high-profile restaurateurs are next.The...
Vacant Santa Monica Sears getting a second life with a $50-million makeover
The vacant Sears department store in downtown Santa Monica is poised for an extreme makeover that will turn the former down-to-earth purveyor of general merchandise into a swanky place to...
DreamWorks’ Glendale campus sold to South Korean investors for $290 million
DreamWorks Animation’s luxurious Tuscany-style campus in Glendale has sold for $290 million to a partnership led by South Korean investors.The animation company, acquired last year by Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal for...
Rare vintage electric sign lights up Sunset Boulevard again after a restoration
The sight of a very persistent bowler throwing strike after strike looms high over Sunset Boulevard again, now that a nearly century-old electric sign has been restored.It’s atop Jensen’s Recreation...
Historic aerospace plant to be turned into ‘creative’ offices in El Segundo
A gated enclave spanning 30 acres in El Segundo where secret aerospace work has been going on for decades will be opened up to laid-back techies and other creative types...
Saudi prince’s arrest could be felt as far as Silicon Valley and Wall Street
Finance, technology, hospitality, entertainment and real estate: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has invested substantially and with great fanfare in all of them, as befits his status as one of the...