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Back out to the San Fernando Valley we go. A short walk up the street from the North Hollywood terminus of the Red and Orange Lines, plans are in the works for a mixed-use development at 11424 Burbank Boulevard. Here are the details from the project’s environmental report: 11424 W Burbank Blvd Construction of a 124 unit multi-family apartment and 750 sq. ft. of ground floor retail space, 56-ft. in height, on a 36,847 sq.

Seems like the Archeon Group’s work is showing up all over Koreatown these days. Last week we took a glance at a their very preliminary looking design for a mixed-use project on Vermont Avenue. Now we head north of Wilshire to check out renderings of 535 Kingsley Drive. The low-rise development, which was first spotted back in August, would contain 83 apartments and a parking garage within its six-story frame. Will the architecture win awards?

It’s the same old song and dance in South Park, as yet another surface parking may bite the dust to make way for apartments. Plans were submitted earlier this month for a seven-story mixed-use development at the northeastern corner of Olympic Boulevard and Olive Street. The new project, located at 924 Olive Street, would contain 263 residential units above 14,500 square feet of ground level retail space. The owner of the land appears to be Steve Needleman of Anjac Fashion, a major landlord in Downtown.

When we last saw the Columbia Square project in August, I wondered if the site was being readied for construction. We now have an answer, as excavation has started for Kilroy Realty’s $300 million re-development of the former CBS Studios. The parking lot on the northern side of the parcel is making way for two new office buildings and a 22-story residential high-rise, set to create 330,000 square feet of office space and 200 apartments.

Anyone tired of reading about mixed-use developments in Downtown yet? If so, you should probably leave now. The Department of City Planning just released the initial study for the Olympic and Olive Project, which was first spotted moving through the planning process in late summer. The seven-story development from Lennar Multifamily Investors would consist of 201 residential units above 4,126 square feet of ground floor commercial space. Plans also call for a three-level, 228 car garage in addition to 221 bike parking spaces.

Even with the locals in an uproar over increased traffic, density and earthquake faults, Hollywood’s development binge forges on. The contentious Millennium Hollywood has taken most of the heat, but there are other projects in the works which would provide the Capitol Records Building with tall neighbors. Documents released by CRA/LA indicate that Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants will be stepping in to re-develop a parcel just north of Hollywood Boulevard into the Argyle Hotel.

Koreatown has mixed-use developments springing up left and right these days, but this one comes with an Ivy League pedigree. Plans were submitted in late October for a six-story building at the southeastern corner of 8th Street and Harvard Boulevard. The project, appropriately named 8th & Harvard, would contain 131 residential units above 7,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space. Architectural work once again comes from the Archeon Group, which currently has several Koreatown projects in predevelopment.

In what may be the least surprising news ever, the long stalled eight-story office building proposed for 1601 Vine Street has suffered yet another delay. Unfavorable market conditions have set the project back for years, but this time the culprit is Los Angeles’ slow moving bureaucracy. When the J.H. Snyder Company took over development of 1601 Vine back in July, they agreed to break ground on the project by April 2014.

We don’t hear about Rampart Village very often, do we? Well, here it goes. A Community of Friends, a non-profit affordable housing developer, recently filed plans for a mixed-use project at the southern end of neighborhood. The project, dubbed “Beverly Terrace,” would occupy a currently vacant lot bounded by Beverly Boulevard and Commonwealth Avenue. The five-story building, designed by Playa Del Rey based Egan Simon Architecture, would contain 40 apartments, a 3,607 square foot child care facility, and 368 square feet of office space.

Over the weekend, Transit Coalition forumer Rubbertoe snapped a few pictures of construction work on the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, otherwise known as ARTIC. The $180 million station is situated within Anaheim’s Platinum Triangle, with easy access to the Honda Center, Disneyland, Angel Stadium and the Anaheim Convention Center. The Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum designed project will link multiple OCTA bus lines and the future Anaheim Streetcar with Metrolink and Amtrak train service.