Four years after the announcement, a new high-rise mixed-use project has been given the go-ahead for development at 1111 Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park, Los Angeles. The project proposal includes the construction of a mixed-use development at the former home of the Metropolitan Water District just north of downtown. Three towers are slated for the former MWD headquarters campus.
Los Angeles-based entity Palisades is the project developer. The project is being designed by a team which includes architecture firms SOM, Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, and Kengo Kuma & Associates, each of which is responsible for one of the three planned high-rise buildings.
1111 Sunset Boulevard Aerial View
The project has secured the City Planning Commission’s approval to clear the six-acre site to make way for the construction of new buildings featuring 1 million square feet of housing, office, retail, and hotel spaces. The first of two scenarios being considered for the proposal will include:
737 one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom dwellings– including 76 affordable units;
a 180-room hotel;
up to 48,000 square feet of office space; and
up to 95,000 square feet of general commercial space.
The second scenario calls for cutting the 180-room hotel from the project, and instead building an additional 90 residential units.
1111 Sunset Boulevard Elevation
In either alternative, plans call for more than 900 parking spaces, which will be made available to future residents, hotel guests, and commercial tenants, as well as residents of the neighboring Elysian apartment complex – another former MWD office building which was converted into housing by developer Linear City.
1111 Sunset Boulevard View Toward Downtown
Most of the housing slated for the 1111 Sunset site will be concentrated in two buildings – a 49-story, 572-foot-tall tower at Sunset and Beaudry Avenue and a 30-story, 408-foot structure adjacent to Alpine Street. Additionally, plans call for the construction of a series of smaller two-to-four story structure which will include between two and eight residential units each.
1111 Sunset Boulevard
A Kengo Kuma-designed 17-story, 211-foot-tall building at the southwest corner of the site – named the Sunset Building – will contain either the proposed 180-room hotel, or under the alternate scenario, 90 residential units.
Three low-rise buildings planned along Sunset and Beaudry will contain the proposed retail and office space, and reference the original design of the MWD campus by architect William Pereira through the use of materials and elements such as outboard columns and sun screens.
1111 Sunset Boulevard View
James Corner Field Operations will design a network of paseos and landscaped courtyards which will knit the 1111 Sunset site together, opening onto Sunset Boulevard with new staircases and pathways. Off-site, plans also call for closing an existing slip lane at the intersection of Sunset and Beaudry, converting the space into a mobility hub with a vehicle drop-off zone and parking, lockers, and showers for cyclists.
1111 Sunset Boulevard Landscaped Areas
According to an environmental study published by the City of Los Angeles, construction of 1111 Sunset Boulevard is on pace to be completed by 2028.
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