An ongoing dispute between developers Millennium Partners and the regulatory agencies tasked with reviewing a $1 billion Handel Architects-designed mixed-use Hollywood Center development slated for sites surrounding the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood continues.
The development, which could bring more than 1,000 apartments and over 30,000 square feet of retail areas to sites surrounding the existing tower, has been dogged by concerns that a previously undiscovered earthquake fault lies near the project site.
Investigations by The Los Angeles Times have yielded new documents from the California Geological Survey that “strongly support the presence of an active ... fault strand entering the eastern Hollywood Center property,” according to a recent report.
Philip Aarons, a founder of Millennium Partners, countered the new findings in comments to The Los Angeles Times, claiming that “It is clear that the data relied upon by the state is significantly inferior in quality to the data acquired from the extensive trenching done on our site."
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those are so fucking ugly... the gods have spoken Handel & Millennium Partners
This story of a major fault located beneath this site/part of the city is a decade old.
The story of a ridiculously big project on this site with its own major faults (most of them located above-ground) is newer.
this story is crazy on so many levels. The money-glazed voice of the developers sounds a lot like the alternative facts that Japanese energy companies spouted before they were forced by reality to shut down the entire country's nuclear power system, and incidentally almost had to evacuate 50 million people from the Tokyo area. This idea that simple plans can be made to cover major disasters, that there is ever enough data, enough preparation, is a classic black-elephant lazy-ass response. AND the architecture is barely even mediocre. Just once it would be nice to hear news from a developer who was aiming just a tad higher, fighting for just a bit more than the average junk that populates our lives.
I vociferously disagree. That architecture is horrendous.
The Captiol Records building is crying
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