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Eight years after purchasing the Providence Tarzana Medical Center, nonprofit service provider Providence Health & Systems has filed plans with the City of Los Angeles to begin capital improvements at the 245-bed hospital. According to a case filing from the Department of City Planning, the Renton, Washington-based company is planning to add a new patient wing and parking garage to the 43-year-old facility, which is located just south of the Ventura Freeway.

According to a report from the Argonaut, El Segundo-based developers Continental Development Corporation and Mar Ventures, Inc. have banded together to build a new creative office campus in Del Rey. The proposed development, called the Alla Road Creative Campus, would consist of a trio of two-story buildings near the western terminus of the Marina Freeway. Plans call for approximately 155,000 square feet of office space, in addition to a one-acre outdoor courtyard and a parking garage for 600 vehicles.

A draft environmental impact report published by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning offers new details about Junction Gateway, an upcoming residential and retail development in northwest Silver Lake. The proposed mixed-use complex from Los Angeles-based Frost/Chaddock Developers would consist of three separate buildigns at different sites along Sunset Boulevard. In total, the project would encompass nearly 300 apartments - including 27 affordable housing units - and 17,000 square feet of pedestrian-oriented shops and restaurants.

Los Angeles-based real estate firm CIM Group has filed plans to construct a residential-retail complex on the site of a shuttered car dealership in West Los Angeles. The proposed mixed-used development would rise from an approximately 1.33-acre site at 11752 W. Santa Monica Boulevard, replacing a series of vacant structures that once housed Beurge Chrysler Jeep. Plans call for a five-story structure which would feature 187 residential units above nearly 15,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a 316-car garage.

Sustainable Little Tokyo, the community organization charged with developing a vibrant future for Southern California’s oldest Japanese American enclave, will soon reimagine Azusa Street, a utilitarian alleyway near the heart of the neighborhood. Starting on July 9 - in coordination with the Los Angeles Ukelele Expo at the Japanese American Community & Cultural Center - SLT will implement a series of temporary, physical improvements including pop up art galleries, landscaping and activities.

Sony Pictures Entertainment will officially relocate its corporate offices to a new building on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in 2017. The company’s current home, a mid-rise structure in Downtown Culver City, is now in the hunt for its first new occupant in over two decades. Sony Pictures Plaza, designed by the late architect Maxwell Starkman, features more than 260,000 square feet of office space in an eight-story structure at 10000 W.

More construction cranes appear to be on the horizon for Downtown’s rapidly growing South Park neighborhood. Last week, tenants of the office complex at 1212 S. Flower Street were notified that their parking accommodations are being relocated to an off-site garage. Onni Group, the owner of the five-story building and its adjoining parking lot, has planned for several years to construct a high-rise development on the surrounding property. According to plans filed with the City of Los Angeles, the project would feature two high-rise structures featuring a combined 730 residential units and approximatley 8,000 square feet of retail space fronting Flower, Hope and 12th Streets.

The Santa Monica Airport2Park Foundation, a nonprofit group created to transform the Santa Monica Municipal Airport into green space, has revealed three alternatives for a 12-acre expansion of the existing Airport Park. The project, which is being designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios, is being evaluated based on three criteria: performance, culture and ecology. Runway The first alternative, known as Runway, would add three new sports fields and a variety of other amenities to the park, including a natural habitat, a community lawn, a children’s play area, a community garden and a new pedestrian entrance on Centinela Avenue.

Last week, a development team consisting of the Trammell Crow Company (TCC), the Cesar Chavez Foundation and La Plaza de Cultura y Artes quietly broke ground on a $140-million mixed-use complex near Olvera Street. La Plaza Cultura Village, slated for two Los Angeles County-owned parking lots at the intersection of Broadway and Cesar E Chavez Avenue, will consist of five- and eight-story buildings featuring 355 residential units and 43,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and restaurant space.

In Beverly Hills, work is now underway on the first U.S. mixed-use development designed by the Beijing-based firm MAD Architects. The project, known as 8600 Wilshire Boulevard, will consist of a three-to-five-story structure featuring 18 residential condominiums above ground-floor commercial space. According to an official project page from the architect’s website, the design of 8600 Wilshire is informed by a desire to “coalesce nature and community into a living environment among high-density cities.“ Consequently, the building evokes an image of a small hilltop village, perched above a green wall facade.