Los Angeles Convention Center to Get Redesign of the Redesign.
The current Los Angeles Convention Center. although not that old compared to many in the country, is badly out of date. The convention business is big money and very competitive.
Plans to update the current convention center never seemed to work out in the past. The latest was an plan for LA Live developer, AEG, to do a massive remodel and expansion as part of the NFL stadium that was to built nearby. When that failed, Los Angeles decided to hold a design competition to do it themselves. They selected a design team headed by HMC Architects and Populous. LA also approved a $470 Million bond funding plan.
Now they’re considering shelving that plan and going much bigger through a public / private partnership. The City of Los Angeles will hand over the project to a well qualified private developer to finish it off.
This will breed more Los Angeles downtown net lease retail and restaurant development. That’s where we Los Angeles commercial real estate agents and brokers come in. It also means even more hotels and high rise multi unit development as if LA doesn’t have plenty of that in the pipeline already.
Los Angeles has turned into one great development after another. This is exciting stuff.