California

California exchanger in day 4 of 45 day identification period looking for triple net retail properties for sale or absolute net retail investment.  $1.3 mil needs to be replaced to $2.6 mil under [...]

I get questions from both proprietors starting a new concept and looking for a new space to lease and investment buyers looking for net leased retail properties to purchase so I thought it would [...]

Developer, AvalonBay, spent $100 million to buy six acres of land around Santa Monica and Las Palmas for a huge 695 unit apartment complex complete with another 25,000 square feet of ground floor [...]

I missed this when the article was published a couple of months ago, although I’ll admit that I don’t read Mother Jones all that much. Columbus: Where the cost of living is more [...]

Wow, look at this. A massive conversion of this massive 1908 property is on the way soon. Waterbridge Capital bought the property last year for $130 million The 1.1 million square foot Broadway [...]

This is just amazing. Another mega project for LA’s south Park with a newly announced multi tower project with high rises up to 42 stories to be located at Olympic and Figueroa all the way [...]

In my 30 years in LA, never did I think I would see something like the following happening. South Park, roughly defined as southwest of the Arts District, south of downtown Los Angeles, east of [...]

Hellen’s 525 S Spring Street will get a big high rise designed by Steinberg Architects with TSK Architects and seen here [...]

This one at 33 stories in the Los Angeles historic core will contain 320 market rate apartments plus 22 very low income units and 86 workforce housing units. Still not sure what [...]

The South Park mega billion dollar project, Fig Central, just broke ground on the 4.6 acre lot that’s adjacent to LA Live. The project will have a five star Robert Cavalli hotel, luxury [...]

There just might be a new 80,000 NFL stadium on the site of the old Hollywood Park under construction by the end of the year. St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced last month that [...]

Santa Monica has a very active bunch of NIMBYs who will shut your new project down if they don’t like it, and that’s generally the case. Tech industry has become the source for 25% of [...]

The reimagining of Pacific Palisades’ Palisades Village has been underway for years by Rick Caruso, developer of The Grove and Americana at Brand.   Now the actual work is about to begin [...]

Better late than never is the story with this new ground floor net leased retail mixed use building with 131 apartment units above.  It’s on the northwest corner of Washington Blvd and [...]

We haven’t seen much new for Reseda in decades so this is a significant start. Now that the LA river waterfront is beginning the process of partial deconstruction with a planned continuous [...]

The new European villa like Restoration Hardware will be located at 8564 Melrose Ave in West Hollywood. The older store over by Beverly Center at 8722 Beverly Blvd. will not be closed as earlier [...]

Downtown Los Angeles News (DTNews) just recapped the truly mega number of commercial developments underway or in planning stages for downtown for a total of 94 today with 14 of those added since [...]

I read this one today on Curbed LA. The primary reason I’m posting it is this: ” A crackdown on the jerks who misuse disabled placards to park for free at meters” I don’t [...]

What will be the tallest hotel in the west is currently under construction in place of the Wilshire Grand that was built in 1952. Developers Hanjin and Korean Air are building the 900 room 73 [...]

I find this a little hard to believe, but according to Curbed LA, downtown LA with 1 percent of the land area has had 20 percent of the new housing since passage of the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance [...]