AEG will embark on a third attempt to redevelop a surface parking lot just north of the L.A. Live complex with a mixed-use, high-rise building, per an application submitted yesterday to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.
The property, located at 917-931 W. Olympic Boulevard and 920-948 S. Georgia Street, is slated for the construction of a 49-story, approximately 631-foot-tall tower featuring a 334-room hotel, 364 residential units on its upper floors. Plans also call for a restaurant, a bar, meeting rooms, a ballroom, and a total of 112,593 square feet of entertainment uses, served by parking for 666 vehicles in three subterranean levels and th…
AEG will embark on a third attempt to redevelop a surface parking lot just north of the L.A. Live complex with a mixed-use, high-rise building, per an application submitted yesterday to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.
The property, located at 917-931 W. Olympic Boulevard and 920-948 S. Georgia Street, is slated for the construction of a 49-story, approximately 631-foot-tall tower featuring a 334-room hotel, 364 residential units on its upper floors. Plans also call for a restaurant, a bar, meeting rooms, a ballroom, and a total of 112,593 square feet of entertainment uses, served by parking for 666 vehicles in three subterranean levels and three above grade levels.
According to materials included in the application packet, the buildings entertainment uses would be concentrated on the fifth and sixth floors, and could include uses such as miniature golf, darts, escape rooms, electronic games, and other interactive uses. Hotel uses would be concentrated between the ninth and 20th floors, while the proposed residential units would occupy the upper floors of the tower. A podium-top amenity deck would also be activated with restaurant space, a bar, a pool, a clubroom, and a fitness area. Other restaurant uses would be located at street level and on the entertainment floors, while a night club is proposed for the eighth floor.
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At street level, the tower would be accompanied by a 660-square-foot entry plaza and a 1,122-square-foot pocket park. The building podium above would include an “undulating fabric of vertical fin-mounted LEDs” along Olympic Boulevard, with glass curtain on upper levels. Plans call for both digital and static signage, similar to what is seen on other nearby buildings.
Construction of the project will require approval of conditional use permits for both the hotel use and alcohol sales, as well as an amendment to the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Specific Plan which governs the L.A. Live campus and surrounding blocks.
Developers have aimed on multiple occasions to build on sites located to the north of Olympic Boulevard from the L.A. Live campus, including proposals for a multi-tower complex across Georgia Street and a slim high-rise at the site of the Downtown car wash. AEG had previously partnered with Williams & Dame on plans for a Renaissance Hotel on the 917 Olympic site, and subsequently sought to build a 38-story expansion of the J.W. Marriott on the property in 2016, only to step away from the project within two years.
Plans to build on the Olympic and Georgia lot have been revived shortly after the official start of work on a $2.6-billion expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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