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With demolition now complete for a former five-story office building, site preparation is now commencing for a high-rise hotel development near the Capitol Record Building. The Argyle Hotel, which is rising on a now vacant lot at 1800 North Agyle Avenue, will consist of a 16-story tower featuring 225 guest rooms, 6,000 square feet of meeting space and 3,000 square feet of restaurant space. Designs from San Diego-based ACRM Architects call for a three-level podium with above-grade parking for up to 107 vehicles and amenity space.

With its former home above the squat Salvation Army building now woefully inadequate, crews from Webcor Builders recently moved the Metropolis construction camera to a new location atop the 1100 Wilshire condominium tower. Now perched nearly 500 feet above ground, the webcam displays the full extent of the 6.3-acre development site, which has been under near constant construction since June 2014. The $1-billion project, which is being developed by Greenland USA, will consist of a mixture of hotel rooms, residential units and premium retail space.

A document from CRA/LA has unveiled plans for a new apartment complex with ground-floor retail on Sunset Boulevard. The six-story development, slated for a .32-acre site at 6630-6634 Sunset Boulevard, will consist of 34 market rate apartments and slightly over 5,000 square feet of ground-floor rcommercial space. Plans call for a mixture of studio and one-bedroom apartments, supplemented by a rooftop deck and a parking garage for 49 vehicles and 28 bicycles.

Two weeks after developer Townscape Partners unveiled architect Frank Gehry’s new design for 8150 Sunset Boulevard, the Los Department of City Planning (LADCP) has released new environmental documents providing additional details about the upcoming mixed-use development. The project - slated for the current home of a two-acre retail center bounded by Sunset Boulevard, Hayvenhurst Drive and Crescent Heights Boulevard - would consist of two residential towers featuring a combined 191 market rate apartments, 28 affordable housing units and 30 for-sale condominiums.

In late August, construction crews embarked on a 3,200-yard concrete pour at Circa, a two-tower mixed-use development now underway across the street from Staples Center. Check out the progress, as well as shots of South Park and the Downtown cityscape, thanks to drone footage shot by George Smith of concrete supplier Holliday Rock. Circa - which is being developed by a team lead by Jamison Services and the Hankey Group - will feature 648 luxury apartments and approximately 40,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial floor area.

Piggybacking off of earlier work by the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is exploring new alignments for a proposed light rail line which would shuttle passengers between Downtown Los Angeles and Artesia. The West Santa Ana Branch (WSAB), one of 12 projects funded by the Measure R half-cent sales tax, has a scheduled revenue operation date of 2027. The prior alternatives analysis conducted by SCAG explored numerous transportation modes for the 34-mile corridor, ranging from the practical-but-unexciting (bus rapid transit) to the overly-expensive-and-unrealistic (low-speed maglev).

Meta Housing Corporation has completed construction for the Metro @ Compton Senior Apartments, a $20.3-million affordable housing community for persons aged 55 and older. The three-story development, located at 302 North Tamarind Avenue, consists 75 one- and two-bedroom apartments within walking distance of the Metro Blue Line’s Compton Station. The complex sits directly across the street from Compton’s new Senior Activity Center, which offers a community room, an outdoor living room with water features and a barbeque.

A new multi-family residential complex is rising on a 3.3-acre site located south of the Green Line’s Aviation/LAX Station. The project, known as Avaire South Bay, is being developed in the unincorporated community of Del Aire by real estate firm Fairfield Residential. According to a post to the company’s website, the low-rise building will feature 264 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments as well as mezzanine loft units. Plans also call for a swimming pool, social lounge and a parking garage within the development.

A shuttered car wash in Valley Village is poised to make way for a new mixed-use development. According to plans filed last week with the City of Los Angeles, applicant Yaron Levy has propposed a five-story residential-retail complex on an approximately .65-acre site at 12438-12462 West Chandler Boulevard. The project calls for 70 residential units, 1,750 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a two-level garage with parking accommodations for up to 80 vehicles.

A striking multi-family residential building is now taking form in the Pico Union neighborhood. The project, located at 1038 South Mariposa Avenue, consists of a five-story wood-frame structure featuring 32 residential units, an underground parking garage and a rooftop amenity deck. It is currently unclear whether or not the development is being built as rental apartments or for-sale condominiums. Mariposa, designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects, is described as “deriv[ing] from a pure square exruded upward to fit tight on its lot.“ The building’s exterior walls curve inward, while its balconies protrude outward to provide unique city views.