Steven Sharp

In a ceremony held late last month, Thomas Safran & Associates and co-developers Century Housing and the United States Veterans Initiative held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the debut of new veterans supportive housing at the West Los Angeles VA Campus.

In Glassell Park, IHP Capital Partners and Comstock Homes have commenced work on a new for-sale housing development just north of the Glendale Freeway. Located on a 1.9-acre site at 3845 Fletcher Drive, the project calls for the construction of 37 detached homes and 20,000 square feet of open space and outdoor gathering areas.

At its meeting yesterday, the Los Angeles City Planning Commission upheld the approval of multifamily residential developments in University Park, Westlake, and Koreatown, rejecting appeals which sought to block the construction of both projects.

Tech giant Apple’s aspirations for a new L.A. area office campus across the street from Culver City Station has cleared another key hurdle, receiving the approval of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission at its meeting on February 9.

After 25 years in Culver City, Sony Pictures Animation is on the move.

A notice issued this month by the L.A. Housing Department sheds new light on the Ambrosia Apartments, a proposed permanent supportive housing complex from Skid Row Housing Trust in South Los Angeles.

After multiple change ups within the past five years, Metro has taken a key step in its effort to extend the C Line from Redondo Beach to Torrance, with the release of a draft environmental impact report for the project.

This week, CicLAvia rolled out its schedule of car-free open streets for 2023. Things kick off on February 26 with a five-mile trek down Sherman Way in the West Valley, running between Canoga Park and Reseda. The rest of the schedule can be seen below.

New funding awarded this month will facilitate the construction of affordable and permanent supportive housing at two sites in the City of Long Beach.

Nearly two years after acquiring the City Place shopping mall, developers Turnbridge Equities, Waterford Property Company, and Monument Square Investment Group will present their vision for the roughly 14-acre property to

At the intersection of 8th Street and Western Avenue, wood framing is now rising at Western Station, one of developer Jamison Services, Inc.’s numerous upcoming projects in Koreatown.

If you’ve been traveling down Wilshire Boulevard through the Miracle Mile lately, you may have noticed some changes at the LACMA campus.

In Bellflower, wood framing is complete, and exterior finishes are now taking shape at a new mixed-use apartment complex from Serrano Development Group.

Over the past couple of weeks, we took some time to reflect on some of L.A.’s biggest real estate, architecture, and urban planning stories of 2022. But with the calendar flip to January, it’s time to look forward. Here’s a preview of some projects that could be making headlines during 2023.

To close out 2022, we held our second annual round of year end polls, asking you - faithful reader - to decide the biggest stories of 2022. You chose from bus lanes, bike lanes, skyscrapers, and more nebulous entries that didn’t fit neatly into any one category. Here’s what you said:

One block west of Venice High School, prolific Westside apartment builder Wiseman Residential has commenced work on yet another project. The new development, approved by Los Angeles Planning officials in 2020, will rise from a property located at 1600 E. Venice Boulevard, where it replaces a handful of smaller buildings. Plans call for a new four-story building featuring 77 rental apartments above parking for 43 vehicles.