Earlier this month, developer Townscape Partners and Gehry Partners presented an unsolicited plan to the Beverly Hills City Council to build a huge mixed-use campus that would include hip office space, a five-star hotel, retail, and a three-acre public park on about seven acres of land...the council is expected to approve an agreement at their meeting tonight that should help this unexpected and enormous project take a big step forward. — Curbed
You can find the full project staff report here.
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Why would someone develop a definitive design then hand over $1 million to fund a study which would result in an RFP being sent out to their competitors?….must be missing something here.
I don't know unless they are trying to find some way to use it as a tax right off or something. I don't know.... there has to be some contrived purpose to make themselves money out of the deal.
hardly definitive
"The potential for the City of a significant Frank Gehry designed campus along with a potentially significant near-term and long-term revenue source to fund municipal priorities would appear to make this proposal worth considering. As proposed, it is a substantial amount of development, with as yet unquantified impacts, on a site where there is not consensus about the best long-term use. The public process under consideration would provide an opportunity for the developer to familiarize the public with their project and proposed ground lease terms and to hear responses and suggestions directly from the public."
make it rain bb
shake yo architecture
Gehry doing BIG better than BIG. That's an easy formula to copy.
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