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The plot containing Frank Gehry's 8150 Sunset mixed-user is up for grabs in Hollywood

2023-01-19T12:22:00-05:00

This month, listings appeared on multiple websites advertising the 2.5-acre property at 8150 Sunset Boulevard as being for sale. The now vacant lot, which sits at Sunset's intersection with Crescent Heights Boulevard, is the former site of the Garden of Allah, and more recently, the Lytton Savings Building.

The amended plan includes a retail center and residential tower with 38 total units of affordable housing divided into two sculptural volumes that straddle a 2.5-acre plot. Once developed, it will join Gehry’s similarly-designed Ocean Avenue Project and the 45-story The Grand LA as the latest Gehry Partners mixed-use projects to grace the Los Angeles area this decade. The assessor’s estimate for the Sunset property was $14.75 million.

Updates to Frank Gehry's Sunset Strip mixed-user revealed

2020-12-03T15:57:00-05:00

Architect Frank Gehry has unveiled a revised design for 8150 Sunset - a proposed mixed-use housing complex near the eastern terminus of the Sunset Strip. The project [...] calls for the construction of two mid-rise structures containing 203 residential units - a portion of which would be set aside as workforce and affordable housing - above 57,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

Gehry's ongoing 8150 Sunset project in Los Angeles first appeared on Archinect in March 2015 with initial renderings following in August that year.

Urbanize Los Angeles reports that the revised design was the result of conditions of approval imposed by LA's City Council in 2016.

For comparison, here's the initially proposed design published in 2015:

Frank Gehry's Sunset Strip mixed-user unanimously approved by L.A. City Council

2016-11-03T13:17:00-04:00

the developer, Townscape Partners, agreed to reduce its tallest tower to 178 feet and add more affordable housing and more parking spaces. It will also provide $2 million to ease traffic congestion. The project will have 229 residential units, including 38 for low-income families. There will be 65,000 square feet of commercial space and a pedestrian plaza.

When Gehry's Sunset Strip development was approved by the L.A. City Planning Commission last August, the plan called for 28 affordable housing units (15% of the total stock)—a number that some at the Commission meeting were concerned set a "low bar" for a development of its size, stature and density (especially given the city's ongoing housing crisis).

The City Council's approval came with 10 more affordable housing units—approximately 17% of the total stock. The entire project includes two residential towers, a shopping center and gardens.

Related on Archinect:

Frank Gehry's Sunset Strip mixed-user approved by LA City Planning Commission, with 15% affordable units

2016-08-01T18:11:00-04:00

[John Irwin, one of the project's developers, noted:] "This is the right direction for development in L.A., embracing both the benefits of good planning—as well as a commitment to providing affordable housing at varying income levels, which we have agreed to increase” [...] Ryu’s Chief of Staff Sarah Dusseault argued before the commissioners that setting such a low bar for affordable housing would set a bad precedent as the city is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis.

More Frank on Archinect:

Frank Gehry's renderings for L.A.'s Sunset Strip revealed

2015-08-26T15:00:00-04:00

Initial renderings of the $300 million development depict a cluster of five architecturally distinct buildings distributed across the 2.6- acre site around a central plaza. In total, the project will comprise 333,600 square feet, and have 249 residential units. One of the architects’ primary goals was to make the site as approachable as possible to invite the surrounding community in to shop, dine, or simply relax in the plaza.

Renderings and model photos were released today of Frank Gehry's proposed design for the 8150 Sunset Boulevard project. Positioned at the so-called Gateway to the Sunset Strip at the curving intersection of Crescent Heights Boulevard, Havenhurst Drive and Sunset Boulevard, Gehry's mixed-use, three-story retail center and 11-story residential tower (which is expected to achieve LEED silver status) emphasizes pedestrian access and preserving Sunset's relatively low streetscape:

Gehry reportedly said of the project, “[Residents and future visitors] should feel that they are part of L.A., a part of L.A. that has a culture that comes with it.”

New Gehry mixed-user in the works at "gateway to the Sunset Strip"

2015-03-09T19:22:00-04:00

That unattractive strip mall on the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights boulevards ... will be razed in favor of a Frank Gehry-designed mixed-use development [...] The state last year deemed the project to be L.A. County's first California Environmental Leadership Development Project. To qualify developments must see at least $100 million in investment, achieve LEED Silver certification or better, and emit zero net greenhouse gases.