Last week we wrote about how Los Angeles isn’t building nearly enough housing to keep prices under control. Apparently, someone’s listening. At the LA Business Council’s annual Housing, Transportation, and Jobs Summit this last Wednesday, Mayor Garcetti announced his goal to build 100,000 new housing units in the city by 2021, noting that the city […]
Earlier this month the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate released the 2014 Casden Multifamily Report, an overview of housing trends in Southern California and a forecast for vacancies and rent increases over the next few years. The major takeaway for both Los Angeles and Orange County is that, despite what feels like a construction […]
Come read the new article that has been posted to the Urban One website: Hollywood Community Plan Overturned: What Does it Mean for Property Value? -by JR Riddle
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Today, developers, planners, and policy makers alike share a relatively clear vision of what Transit Oriented Development means. The vision is one of a walkable area of mixed residential and commercial uses surrounding a public transit station, typically a rail station. But a recent article from The Atlantic’s CityLab urges us to move past this already […]
Everyone knows that the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles is absolutely blowing up right now. It’s one of the trendiest neighborhoods, if not the trendiest neighborhood in Los Angeles, filled with the best bars, restaurants, coffee shops and edgy retailers. Developers are flocking to the much sought after area, buying up properties and announcing […]
Recently Walk Score released their 2014 City and Neighborhood Report. The report ranks cities and their neighborhoods by their walk score, transit score, and bike score. Accordingly, Downtown LA was ranked the most walkable and transit accessible neighborhood in Los Angeles. One might ask, if Downtown is so walkable and transit accessible, why do we […]
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti announced earlier this week that he would be postponing the merger of the Department of City Planning and Department of Building and Safety, an initiative birthed by former mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa. According to LA Downtown News, the idea behind the merger is to create a single unit that would handle all aspects […]
For the past two years, Urban One has been fortunate to collaborate with Professor Paul Habibi and the Los Angeles Business Council on the LABC Institute’s Livable Communities Report. The 2013 Livable Communities Report: A Call to Action, was just unveiled at the LABC’s Annual Mayoral Housing, Jobs, and Transportation Summit last Friday, October 18th. […]
In the past 12 months, a new wave of real estate development has hit Downtown Los Angeles. Property is trading, projects are being planned, and shovels are in the ground. For those who are not aware, most of Downtown is zoned for high-rise, high-density use, which the core of any major city should be. Although, […]