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With over 5,000 residential units under construction, Downtown Los Angeles has been a bright spot in the midst of Southern California’s debilitating housing crisis. There are few places where this is more apparent than the three block stretch of Pico Boulevard between Olive and Hope streets, where five new mixed-use developments are rising simultaneously. At the northwest corner of Pico and Olive Street, excavation is progressing for an eye-catching residential-retail complex.

With a tower crane on site, construction is kicking into high gear for Ten50, a residential tower from San Francisco-based developer Trumark Urban. The $100 million project - designed by architecture firm HansonLA - will consist of a 22-story edifice at the corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue in the bustling South Park neighborhood. Plans call for a total of 151 one- and two-bedroom condominiums within the building, seated above a five-level parking podium with approximately 5,900 square feet of ground-level commercal space.

As an integral next step in the “Expansion and Futurization Project” for the Los Angeles Convention Center, the City of Los Angeles, led by the L.A. Department of Convention and Tourism Development and the Bureau of Engineering, spearheaded a design competition to select an architect for the proposed renovation and expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Three final teams were selected and their work is now on public display beginning Wednesday, May 20th through June 4th, 2015.

An internet sleuth from Skyscraperpage has uncovered a sleek new look for Olive & 8th, a new apartment tower currently under construction in the burgeoning South Park neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles. A time lapse video created by the JT Wimsatt Contracting Company features multiple renderings of a taller, slimmer design for the project, crafted by Chicago-based Solmon Cordwell Buenz Architecture. According to documents filed with the Department of City Planning, the retooled plan calls for a 33-story tower which would rise to an architectural peak of 352 feet above ground level.

An upcoming presentation to the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council’s Planning and Land Use Committee has revealed new information about 1020 South Figueroa Street, a high-rise complex planned by the Shenzen Hazens Real Estate Group. The project site, an approximately 2.6-acre property adjacent to the LA Live complex, is currently developed with a combination of surface parking the Luxe City Center Hotel. Initial plans for the property call for a two-phase development which would create 650 residential units, 250 hotel rooms and 80,000 square feet of commercial space within a trio of high-rise towers.

What a way to cap a big week of news for Downtown Los Angeles. On Tuesday, the City of Los Angeles announced that the team of Populous and HMC Architects had been selected to design the $350 million expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center, beating out other proposals from teams lead by Gensler and AC Martin. Now, several new renderings have been released for the Populous-HMC proposal on Facebook and Twitter by Mayor Garceitti’s office.

A new fly-through video of the winning Populous/HMC design for the expanded Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) has been posted on Vimeo, courtesy of Populous. Previously released stills of the design gave a decent overview of Populous and HMC’s plans for bringing our aging convention center up to date, but the newly released video fills in much of the gaps and answers some questions in regards to how all the elements fit together.

After spending more than a quarter-century in development purgatory, construction is now progressing rapidly on the $1-billion Metropolis complex in Downtown Los Angeles. The two-phase project, which was first proposed during the Reagan administration, will create four high-rise towers on an approximately six-acre site sandwiched between Francisco Street and the Harbor Freeway. Phase one, which began construction in June 2014, consists of two buildings at 899 and 889 South Francisco Street.

With a tower crane on site, construction is now going vertical for a new residential-retail complex in the booming South Park neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles. The mixed-use development, dubbed the Project at Pico, will consist of a pair of seven-story structures located on namesake Pico Boulevard between Olive and Hill Streets. The buildings, designed by Los Angeles-based architecture firm AC Martin, will offer a combined total of 360 condominiums, 6,400 square feet of ground-level retail space and 382 underground parking spaces.

A document from the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC) has unveiled new details about an upcoming mixed-use development in South Park. The proposed residential-retail complex, dubbed “the Hill,” would consist of a 20-story tower featuring 232 condominiums, 14,000 square feet of ground-level retail space and 355 automobile parking spaces. Plans call for a mixture of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom dwellings, each of which would feature a balcony. The project, which is being developed by 940 Hill, LLC, would rise from a .79-acre site at 940 South Hill Street, replacing a one-story commercial building built during the early 1970s.