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Los Angeles-based real estate developer AMLI Residential has broken ground on a new multi-family complex along the Marina Del Rey waterfront. The $165 million development, dubbed AMLI MDR, will rise from an L-shaped site at the intersection of Via Marina and Panay Way. Plans filed with Los Angeles County call for a series of low-rise structures which would feature a cumulative 585 residential units and a small retail component along the property’s western perimeter.

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.

Recently, the Urbanize LA team had the good fortune to receive a tour of one of Los Angeles’ highest profile projects: the 73-story Wilshire Grand. Today, we’re pleased to be able to share the photos from that tour with our readers. We hope you enjoy these photos as much as we enjoyed getting a close up view of the West Coast’s soon-to-be tallest tower. Special thanks to Dan Dorn of Turner Construction and Laura Walsh of Cerrell Associates for making this tour possible, and a big thank you to Hunter Kerhart for the excellent photos.

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.

Just two months after renderings were revealed for their upcoming Spring Street apartment tower, Holland Partner Group (HPG) is cooking up plans for a follow-up project across the street. Yesterday, the Vancouver, Washingon-based developer filed plans with the City of Los Angeles to construct a 24-story residential tower at 732 South Spring Street. The project, slated for a .93-acre parking lot which abuts the Great Republic Lofts, would consist of 308 apartments and approximately 7,200 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.

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.

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.

In the 1950s, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to carve a 1.5-mile swath out of the Ballona Wetlands to create what is now known as Marina Del Rey. The Oxford Basin, sandwiched between Washington Boulevard and Admiralty Way, was little more than an afterthought in this process, intended only as a means for controlling water flow into and out of the Marina. However, more a half-century later, the County’s Department of Public Works (LACDPW) has begun work on a series of functional and aesthetic improvements which will allow the utilitarian basin to function more like a public park.

A short segment of low-rise commercial buildings on Lankershim Boulevard may be replaced by a large mixed-use development. Earlier this week, Woodland Hills-based Hayes Capital Management filed plans with the City of Los Angeles to build a new residential-retail complex a half-mile south of the North Hollywood terminus of Metro’s Red and Orange Lines. The project, slated for a 1.37-acre site at the northwest corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Otsego Street, would consist of an approximately 300,000-square-foot building rising up to 87 feet in height.

With construction well underway on Chinatown’s long-stymied Blossom Plaza complex, developer Forest City has now turned its attention toward another mixed-use complex which straddles the border between South Park and the Fashion District. Earlier this month, the Ohio-based real estate firm broke ground on a residential-retail development near the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. The project, which is replacing two parking lots at 1108 Hill Street and 1201 Main Street, will include a total of 391 apartments and 16,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space in a pair of seven-story structures designed by architecture firm Harley Ellis Devereaux.