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An environmental report published by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning offers up new details on a proposed mixed-use development near the San Pedro waterfront. Earlier this year, Beverly Hills real estate investment firm Omninet Capital, LLC submitted plans for a residential-retail complex at 550-560 S. Palos Verdes Street. The project, which would span across 2.5-acres, consists of a six-story structure that would offer 404 residential units above 5,200 square feet of ground-floor retail space..

Architecture firm Studio One Eleven has unveiled renderings for an upcoming develompent in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. The proposed 2110 Bay development, slated for a 1.8-acre site adjacent to the forthcoming Soho Warehouse, would consist of three buildings on a campus-like setting with public and private open space. The project is being designed to gracefully incoprorate itself into the surrounding Arts District through sensitive massing, scaling and materials. Plans call for a 110-unit live-work tower featuring a rooftop pool deck and amenity space.

Killefer Flammang Architects has announced the completion of Paloma Terrace, a new affordable housing complex by the Retirement Housing Foundation (RHF Housing). The four-story building, located at 5000 S. Main Street in South Los Angeles, features 59 residential units reserved for low-income families. Paloma Terrace sits directly across the street from Broadwood Terrace, an 89-unit sister facility which opened in 2015. The two properties arrive just as RHF - one of the nation’s largest nonprofit providers of housing for older adults - celebrates its 55th anniversary.

The official “yes,” campaign for Measure M has produced an animated map, showing the potential transformations to Metro’s rail and rapid bus network under the proposed $120-billion sales tax measure. To see it, look below. For more details on what is planned under the ballot measure, look here.

A staff report to the Los Angeles City Planning Commission has unveiled renderings for Madison Avenue Park, a proposed half-acre green space in East Hollywood. Slated for a vacant city-owned lot at 1175 N. Madison Avenue, the property will feature public green space in the front and a community garden in the back. The park space, which is being created through a partnership between the Trust for Public Land and EPT Design, will offer grass fields, shade trees, seating, picnic tables, exercise equipment and basketball hoops.

Four months after voters were asked to select the design of a new shade structure at Grand Park, a squadron of paper planes now soars above Olive Court. The installation, appropriately titled Paper Plane, was designed by local artists Elenita Torres and Dean Sherriff. It consists of 11 total pieces, composed of a mesh-like material. Compare the real life display with an artistic rendering below.

A report from the Bureau of Engineering has shed new light on the city’s proposal to build a new municipal office building on the site of Parker Center, the one time headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department. The city has been exploring the possibility of demolishing the mid-1950s building since 2006, when the LAPD was on the verge of relocating to the new Police Administration Building on Spring Street. The process culminated in 2014, when staff recommended that the city demolish eight-story structure and replace it with a high-rise office building.

A proposed high-rise hotel and condominium complex in Hollywood could be one of the first beneficiaries of a new California law intended to speed the construction of large developments. Crossroads Hollywood, a $1-billion proposal from Harridge Development Group, has been submitted to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research as a potential “Environmental Leadership Development Project.“ This designation, limited to proposals budgeted at $100 million or more, requires the project to pay prevailing wages to construction workers and meet targets for renewable energy use and carbon emissions.

Nearly six months after our look at four competing visions for Downtown’s First and Broadway Park, the City of Los Angeles officially declared the design team of Mia Lehrer + Associates, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and IDEO as the winner. The two-acre FAB Park, budgeted at $28 million, will rise from a vacant lot in the heart of the Civic Center. The property was previously home to a state office building, which was demolished due to earthquake damage in 1976.

Local real estate firm Jamison Services is continuing its multifamily residential building spree, with yet another mixed-use development planned in Koreatown. Yesterday, the company filed plans with the City of Los Angeles to construct two high-rise buildings adjacent to the Wilshire Financial Tower, an early 1960s office complex at 3600 Wilshire Boulevard. The proposed development would start with the demolition of the building’s parking garage, followed by the construction of two 23-story towers featuring a combined 760 dwelling units above roughly 6,400 square feet of street-level commercial space.