The Courtyard, MaDang:
A four-story 100,000 square foot retail/entertainment
center, anchored by Woo Lae Oak restaurant, a Japanese
or Chinese bistro, sports bar, media or book stores
and a three screen movie theater is scheduled to open
across the Street from the Western/Wilshire Metro station
and the historic Wiltern Theater . Young
Choi of Woo Lae Oak restaurants, is the developer and
principal architect is David Kim, of Immersiv Companies.
Equitable Plaza:
3435 Wilshire Blvd., is developing a $20 million,160,000
square foot retail and restaurant complex, anchored
by a high-end market & department store, with a
main entrance on 6th Street, 340 underground parking
spaces and a passageway to the tower. Gruen & Associates
are the architects for the project and construction
has beganthis year.
Wilshire & Vermont:
Urban Partners have developed up to 390 units of multi-family
affordable and market rate housing, commercial stores
and a Los Angeles Unified School District middle school
on the seven-acres around the Wilshire & Vermont
Metro Red Line Subway Station property. The project
design was prepared by the Los Angeles office of Arquitectonica,
an internationally recognized design firm. Design and
planning for the project will be completed in 2003,
with construction taking place in 2004 and 2005. In
2006, the project will be complete.
Wilshire & Western:
Named “Solair,” the 22-story luxury high rise, a joint development between Koar Wilshire Western, LLC and Metro (the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority), with Archeon Group as the architects,
a 40,000 square feet of retail, 186 residential units
from 1-3 bedrooms, underground parking and rental storage
units, slated for completion in December, 2008. KOAR’s previous projects include: The Harbor
Palace Tower in Long Beach (mixed-use residential &
retail), The Pasadena Hilton (mixed-use hotel &
office) and Montana Plaza in Santa Monica (mixed-use
office & retail). The Sav-On Pharmacy on the corner
of Wilshire & Oxford will remain and all other retail
and commercial space on Oxford & 6th Street will
be redeveloped as part of this complex. |
