Los Angeles City Planning Commission has signed off the development of offices at 6101 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The project proposal includes the development of new offices on the border between Hollywood and Hancock Park. The project will replace a surface parking lot and a commercial building built in the 1920s.
BARDAS Investment Group is the project developer. Othersworks is designing the development.
6101 Melrose Avenue Outdoor Deck via Otherworks
The approved project will bring a new five-story building offering 67,000 square feet of offices atop a small ground floor retail space and a two-level, 168-car subterranean parking garage.
Named Echelon at 717 Seward, the building will rise to a height of 74 feet. Renderings reveal a modern low-rise structure composed of stacked, offset masses. Setbacks at the ground-floor and upper levels would create space terrace decks and patios for use by tenants.
6101 Melrose Avenue Facade via Otherworks
Those arguments failed to persuade members of the Commission, who noted that the site was located in a part of the draft Hollywood Community Plan area which is designated for job-creating uses, and pointed to productions going outside of the City of Los Angeles due to a lack of available facilities.
6101 Melrose Avenue via Otherworks
Construction of the project is expected to occur over 20 to 22 months, although a precise groundbreaking date has not been announced. The project site is located at the intersection of Melrose Avenue and Seward Street.
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Are they allowing space for the wonderful, charitable organization, BIG SUNDAY. Shame on the city for displacing them. Also, what the city needs os AFFORDABLE housing and I doubt this building will be that.