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At the southeast corner of Washington and National Boulevards, exterior work has been substantially completed for the Platform, an office and retail complex which is being developed by the San Francisco-based Runyon Group. The project, designed by Abramson Teiger Architects, includes several newly constructed buildings and the adaptive reuse of several structures from an automobile dealership which previously occupied the four-acre property. Construction of the Platform is schedule for completion this Fall.

Construction cranes are once again part of the low-slung Culver City skyline, as steel beams rise for a new office building at Sony Picture Studios. The project, which first emerged last year, is located on a former surface parking lot near the studio complex’s Overland Avenue gate. According to a notice distributed by the Culver City Planning Commission, plans call for an eight-story building featuring 218,000 square feet of office and support space.

The scaffolding has come down at Washington Boulevard and Hughes Avenue, revealing the (mostly) finished exterior of NMS@Culver City, an upcoming mixed-use complex from local landlord NMS Properties. The $63 million project, designed by Santa Monica-based Killefer Flammang Architects, consists of a low-rise structure which will contain 131 residential units, two levels of underground parking and 12,500 square feet of ground-floor commercial floor area. The six-story building will offer a mixture of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, each featuring stone flooring and high quality finishes.

A tipster sends word that Lowe Enterprises, a Los Angeles-based real estate firm, has unveiled plans for a 500,000-square-foot mixed-use complex adjacent to the Expo Line’s Culver City Station. Ivy Station, named for the Culver City stop on the defunct Pacific Electric Air Line, would replace a 5.2-acre site that currently serves as a park-and-ride lot for eastbound commuters on the 8.6-mile light rail line. Architectural renderings displayed on an official website portray a series of modern low-rise buildings centered around a large park.

After sitting dormant for years, plans to develop a property along the Palms-Culver City border are finally moving forward. Yesterday, a tipster passing through the itersection of Overland Avenue and Washington Boulevard noticed something different: the long vacant two-story which once housed Core Church had been demolished. According to documents from the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, South Carolina-based real estate firm Greystar intends to develop the .9-acre site 10601 Washington Boulevard with a seven-story edifice featuring 135 residential units and approximately 14,000 square feet of ground-level retail and restaurant space.

At long last, a rendering has emerged for an eight-story office building currently under construction at Sony Pictures Studios. The project, designed by glocal architecture firm Gensler, is replacing a former surface parking lot adjacent to the studio’s Overland Avenue entrance. According to a document distributed by the Culver City Planning Commission, the mid-rise tower will include approximately 220,000 square feet of office space, support functions and a ground-floor cafe. According to architectural plans, a half-acre park site immediately east of the building may be converted into a park for studio employees and visitors at a later date.

California Landmark Group (CLG), a Los Angeles-based real estate firm, has broken ground on a multifamily residential complex on the border between the Palms neighborhood and Culver City. 3838, named for its address at 3838 Dunn Drive, will consist of a seven-story building featuring 79 market rate apartments, seven affordable housing units and a partially underground parking garage. The low-rise development, designed by a team consisting of Rios Clementi Hale Studios and PK Architecture, will also include a fitness center, a community room and an approximately 2,000-square-foot rooftop deck.

With its early 2016 opening date looming, exterior work is now nearing completion on Access Culver City, a residential-retail complex at the Expo Line’s Culver City Station. The project, developed by South Carolina-based Greystar Real Estate Partners, consists of a five-story building which will feature 115 rental apartments above 30,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a parking garage. Other amenities will include an observation deck, a fitness center, a garden lounge and a heated swimming pool.

IDS Real Estate Group, a Los Angeles-based property management and development firm, has quietly commenced work on a mid-rise office complex a short distance east of the Westfield Culver City shopping mall. Culver City Creative, or C3, is rising from a nearly three-acre site at the northeast corner of Hannum Avenue and Bristol Parkway. The project, designed by the global architecture firm Gensler, will consist of a seven-story, 280,000-square-foot office connected to a parking garage via a system of pedestrian bridges.

The Runyon Group, a full-service real estate firm which operates out of Los Angeles and New York, is planning another development near the Expo Line’s Culver City Station. According to an Active Projects list from the Culver CIty Planning Division, Runyon intends to construct a four-story office building at 8888 Washington Boulevard. The proposed development would include more than 68,000 square feet of floor area, including slightly over 6,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.