For those who do not read the popular real estate blog, Curbed LA, you should. For those of us in the industry, and even those who are just interested, it is the go-to blog for the latest real estate information and gossip. For several years now, Curbed LA has been holding an annual competition called the […]
Some of you avid Urban One fans out there may have read our previous blog posts back at the end of May regarding the resurgence of the multifamily and retail real estate markets. If you’re like me, you have been driving up and down the streets of Los Angeles seeing construction fencing, flagmen, tower cranes […]
After a court decision earlier this year that brought redevelopment in California to an end, many projects around the state and in the City of Los Angeles came to a halt, their fates uncertain with questions of what would happen to money that had been committed by the CRA/LA. But thanks to a decision by […]
So, for those who don’t know, Metro purchased Los Angeles Union Station and 40+ acres surrounding the building last year. They received qualifications from many world-renown architecture & planning firms. They shortlisted six teams (EE&K, Gruen Associates/Grimshaw Architects, IBI Group/Foster + Partners, Moore Ruble Yudell and TEN Arquitectors, NBBJ/Ingenhoven Architects, and Renzo Piano Building Workshop/Parsons Transportation Group) to take part in […]
Here is a great post on Curbed LA about the renovation of the Eastern Columbia Building in Downtown Los Angeles. Urban One’s partners had a hand in this when they worked at The Kor Group, and this was one of Dennis Allen’s biggest accomplishments during his tenure at the firm. Originally built as a department […]