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Hollywood Park’s first apartment building opens for residents in Inglewood

The Wesley features 101 residential units near SoFi Stadium

In Inglewood, construction is complete for the first residential building at the Hollywood Park complex, the sprawling mixed-use development that L.A. Rams owner Stan Kroenke is building around SoFi Stadium.

“We are excited to open The Wesley at Hollywood Park and welcome our first residents,” said Sofi Stadium and Hollywood Park managing director Jason Gannon in a news release. “The intentional, curated design of our residential offering extends Stan Kroenke’s vision to make Hollywood Park a true city within a city and a world-class destination for all to enjoy.”

The four-story building, located at 3988 E. Hardy Street, includes 101 residential units in a mix of studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom floor plans, as well as two-story townhomes. A project website advertises monthly rents as starting at $3,000.

Hart Howerton and TCA Architects led the architecture team for the building, while interiors were designed by Kenneth Brown Design and Redmond Aldrich Design. The complex has a white stucco exterior, with units featuring nine-foot ceilings, large windows, and plank floors.

The property also features open spaces such as a sun terrace, an outdoor screening area, a pool deck, a rooftop deck, and a fitness center.

Read the full article in Urbanize.

Hollywood Park’s New Design-Forward Residence, The Wesley, Now Open 1024 682 Madison Silvers

Hollywood Park’s New Design-Forward Residence, The Wesley, Now Open

Hollywood Park, the largest urban mixed-use mega-development under construction in the Western United States, officially welcomes its first residents at The Wesley, making this the landmark destination’s residential debut. Following a successful pre-leasing launch, the thoughtfully crafted residences offer the best of Los Angeles living, with walkable access to Hollywood Park’s forthcoming dynamic line-up of restaurants, shops, entertainment, and recreational space.

“We are excited to open The Wesley at Hollywood Park and welcome our first residents,” said Jason Gannon, managing director, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park. “The intentional, curated design of our residential offering extends Stan Kroenke’s vision to make Hollywood Park a true city within a city and a world-class destination for all to enjoy.”

Comprised of 101 modern residences, The Wesley is the first residential building at Hollywood Park to open and features a collection of light-filled residences with floorplans ranging from studios to three-bedrooms, as well as two-story townhomes. The elevated architecture and design were envisioned by prominent architects Hart Howerton and TCA Architects and interior design firm Redmond Aldrich Design. Each residence features airy interiors and rich details, such as soaring 9-foot ceilings with expansive windows, wide-plank floors throughout, gourmet kitchens with Samsung appliances and Kohler fixtures, and European-inspired flat-panel cabinetry.

Celebrating indoor-outdoor living, the residences at The Wesley are set in an oasis-like atmosphere.  Lush landscaping and starlit views can be enjoyed via private outdoor terraces and balconies, as well as in highly amenitized outdoor spaces such as:

  • A sky deck with fireplaces and views of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park’s Lake Park
  • A palm tree-lined sun terrace with a dipping spa, retro loungers, and spacious cabanas
  • An outdoor screening area to enjoy blockbuster films or art-house indies
  • Pool-adjacent pavilions with areas to socialize, entertain, and watch live sports and films
  • An outdoor BBQ kitchen

“The convergence of design, art, and history is palpable throughout every corner of The Wesley,” says Christopher Meany, Partner at Wilson Meany, Hollywood Park’s development manager. “The sophisticated residences showcase the best of Southern California’s quintessential lifestyle infused within an environment that cannot be discovered anywhere else. Now, more than ever, renters crave convenience, accessibility, and full-frill features, all of which can be experienced at The Wesley.”

With thoughtfully designed communal spaces intended to foster resident connection and encourage engagement, The Wesley offers many areas for residents to interact and enjoy their daily activities and routines. Additional modern amenities include:

  • Plentiful work-from-home areas, such as library tables, desks, booths, and café-style tables        
  • A game room with richly appointed interiors for residents to socialize, unwind, or entertain
  • An airy fitness studio, complete with weights, sauna, and dedicated spaces for yoga and Pilates
  • A private suite to accommodate residents’ overnight guests
  • A light-filled pet spa with bathing and grooming stations

Now open and available for leasing, The Wesley serves as a prime location for residents to enjoy immediate access to world-class events and entertainment right at their front door. Hollywood Park will ultimately encompass up to 2,500 residences. Its initial residential phase includes 314 new residences, The Wesley’s 101 homes and 213 additional units at its next-door neighbor, The Crosby, which is nearing completion.

Images here (Credit: Stephen Magner (c) Hollywood Park).

Read the article in Real Estate Weekly.

Renderings revealed for the first apartments at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park development 950 714 Madison Silvers

Renderings revealed for the first apartments at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park development

The Wesley and The Crosby will feature 314 units

Construction is pushing toward the finish line at The Crosby and The Wesley, the first residential buildings at Inglewood’s Hollywood Park complex, the massive development from L.A. Rams owner Stan Kroenke which is billed as the largest mixed-use project on the West Coast.

Skydeck at The Wesley overlooking SoFi StadiumHollywood Park

The new development at Prairie Street and Century Boulevard, anchored by SoFi Stadium, will eventually feature 2,500 residential units across more than 300 acres of land. The Wesley and the Crosby, the first two apartment buildings to open on the site, will feature 314 units that are scheduled to begin pre-leasing in January 2023.

Hart Howerton and TCA Architects are designing both buildings, while interiors are being handled by Kenneth Brown Design and Redmond Aldrich Design. Plans call for a mix of studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units, as well as on-site amenities.

Pool deck at The Crosby Hollywood Park

Both are depicted as contemporary low-rise buildings, clad in stucco, which complement the new housing with unique common areas, as well as amenities including sky decks, fitness studios, and swimming pools.

“The development of our residences was inspired by the abundance of art, culture, and history in Inglewood, resulting in two sophisticated residences that feature purposeful design and one-of-a-kind living,” said Christopher Meany, a partner at Wilson Meany, which is managing the Hollywood Park development. “This was an important element as we began to execute on Mr. Kroenke’s vision for the residential, knowing that Hollywood Park aspires to become top-of-mind for renters seeking storied collections of full-frill units with first-class amenities.”

Lobby at The Crosby Hollywood Park

The final buildout of Hollywood Park, in addition to the proposed 2,500 homes, is expected to include nearly 900,000 square feet of offices, 890,000 square feet of retail space, and a 300-room hotel.  Other elements of the project, including SoFi Stadium and a new performing arts venue, are already open. Likewise, 25 acres of open space are planned throughout the complex, highlighted by a six-acre artificial lake which fronts SoFi Stadium.

Commercial tenants at Hollywood Park include the NFL Network, NFL.com, the NFL app, and NFL Redzone, which have leased 290,000 square feet of office space, as well as Sky’s Gourmet Tacos, Cinepolis, and Iconix Fitness.

Outdoor screening area at The WesleyHollywood Park

Hollywood Park, which has kicked off something of a development boom in Inglewood, will also be joined by a similar mixed-use project to the south. The Los Angeles Clippers are poised to join the Rams and Chargers in calling the city home, breaking ground last year on a $1.2-billion arena and entertainment complex directly across Century Boulevard.

The City of Inglewood, in the hope of connecting the new sporting venues with rail transit, is also pursuing the construction of a 1.8-mile automated people mover system which would run between the Crenshaw/LAX Line and Hollywood Park.

Read the full article on LA Urbanize.

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Hollywood Park unveils first two residences, The Crosby and The Wesley

rendering of a bustling urban community with large contemporary mixed-use buildings

The residences will have immediate access to the shopping and dining options at Hollywood Park, as well as the nearby sports and entertainment venues at SoFi Stadium, YouTube Theater and the Intuit Dome.

Read the full article on LA Business First.

Construction hits the halfway mark at first phase of Hollywood Park 1024 676 Madison Silvers

Construction hits the halfway mark at first phase of Hollywood Park

It’s billed as the largest mixed-use development under construction on the West Coast

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Construction is now 50 percent complete at the first phase of Hollywood Park, the immense mixed-use development centered on SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

New residential buildings at Hollywood ParkBinyan Studios | Hollywood Park

Spanning a 300-acre property at the northeast corner of Prairie Avenue and Century Boulevard, the project from Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke is billed as the largest mixed-use project on the West Coast.  A full buildout of the development will include:

  • nearly 900,000 square feet of office space;
  • 890,000 square feet of retail;
  • a 6,000-seat performing arts venue;
  • a 300-room hotel; and
  • up to 2,500 new homes.

Hollywood Park lake park Binyan Studios | Hollywood Park

In addition to SoFi Stadium, the home of the Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers, the development also centers on a six-acre artificial lake, which will be connected to the rest of the site through 25 acres of new park space and landscaped plazas.

Construction is ongoing for the project’s first office building – a 380,000-square-foot structure with flanks SoFi Stadium.  The Gensler-designed structure, which is scheduled to open this year, is slated to become the new West Coast headquarters of the NFL, which has leased nearly 290,000 square feet of space to house an additional 500,000 square feet of office space is planned, with the expectation that the additional buildings would be geared toward media, technology, and entertainment industry firms with an interest in located near the SoFi Stadium.

Hollywood Park retailBinyan Studios | Hollywood Park

Construction is currently in progress for 320,000 square feet of retail space at Hollywood Park’s shopping district, which will eventually total 500,000 square feet in size.  Announced tenants for the complex, which is scheduled o debut in Spring 2022, include Sky’s Gourmet Tacos, Cinepolis, and Iconix Fitness.

The project’s first residential component – total of 314 homes – is on pace for completion following Super Bowl LVI in 2022.

With state and local coronavirus pandemic restrictions gradually lifting, Hollywood Park has also announced a partnership with Live Nation on a multi-year booking agreement for the 6,000-seat performing arts center attached to SoFi Stadium and America Airlines Plaza.  The three-story, 227,000-square-foot venue is already slated to host 11 events between September 2021 and March 2022.

The exterior of the performance venue facing American Airlines PlazaHollywood Park

The Hollywood Park development is perhaps the most visible example of a series of public and private investments made in Inglewood since 2012 when Madison Square Garden Co. (MSG) purchased The Forum for $23.5 million and converted the historic arena into a concert venue.

Four years later, word came that the NFL would return to Los Angeles after a more than two-decade absence.  The Rams – and later the Chargers – would share the then-unbuilt SoFi Stadium.

Just one year after the NFL’s announcement, the Los Angeles Clippers signaled their intent to build a new arena on city-owned properties along Century Boulevard – directly across the street from Hollywood Park.  That $1.2-billion complex is scheduled to break ground later this year, with an opening expected in time for the 2024-2025 NBA season.


Aerial view of Hollywood ParkHollywood Park

The City of Inglewood, in the hope of connecting the new sporting venues with rail transit, is also pursuing the construction of a 1.8-mile automated people mover system that would run between the Crenshaw/LAX Line and Hollywood Park.

SoFi Stadium, in addition to the neighboring Clippers development, has also sparked concerns of future displacement of longtime residents in Inglewood as a result of new investment attracted by the two sporting venues.  As a response to those concerns, the City of Inglewood adopted a permanent rent control ordinance in 2019.

Read the full article at Urbanize.

Housing and retail take shape next to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium 1024 483 Madison Silvers

Housing and retail take shape next to Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium

Offices and a hotel are also planned

exterior image of the modern sofi football stadium. large modern white structure sits on a small lake with evergreen plantings surrounding

In September 2020, SoFi Stadium opened for NFL games – minus spectators – creating a new home for both the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers.

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Aerial view looking northeast from Century and Prairie Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography

The monumental $5-billion structure – by all accounts the most expensive sporting venue ever in the United States – sits at the center of a 300-acre mixed-use complex which rests on the former site of the Hollywood Park Racetrack.  Just south of the stadium, developer Wilson Meany is now in the midst of construction on some of the first components of that larger project.

At the northeast corner of Prairie Street and Century Boulevard, steel beams are now being put into place for a new retail center comprised of stores, restaurants, and open space.  Per a project website, the initial phase of the open-air mall will feature approximately 160,000 square feet of rentable space.  Publicly announced tenants include Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas, Three Weavers Brewing Company, and Olympix Fitness.

Rendering of Hollywood Park retail center Hollywood Park Life

The project’s architecture team – including BCV, AO, and Studio MLA – has developed designs for a series of low-rise structures linked by pedestrian arcardes and large open spaces.  Plans also call for amenities fronting a manmade lake at the center of Hollywood Park.

A later expansion of the project could add up to 340,000 square feet of additional retail and restaurant space, as well as a 300-room hotel on an adjoining site.

North of the retail complex, work is also underway for the first residential buildings at the Hollywood Park development – a pair of podium-type apartment buildings which will contain a total of 314 rental units.

Rendering of apartment buildings at Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Life

Those low-rise structures are being designed by Hart Howerton and TCA Architects, and are expected to open concurrently with the retail center.

A full buildout of the Hollywood Park master plan could eventually include up to 2,500 residential units.

Immediately west of SoFi Stadium, construction is already complete for the first offices at Hollywood Park – a 200,000-square-foot campus for which will serve as the new home of the NFL Network, NFL.com, the NFL app, and NFL Redzone.

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Aerial view of NFL Media building looking northwest Hunter Kerhart Architectural Photography

Up to 300,000 square feet of additional office space, designed by Gensler, could be built sites now used for parking along the east side of Prairie Street.

The Hollywood Park development is perhaps the most visible example of a series of public and private investments made in Inglewood since 2012, when Madison Square Garden Co. (MSG) purchased The Forum for $23.5 million and converted historic arena into a concert venue.

Four years later, word came that the NFL would return to Los Angeles after a more than two-decade absence.  The Rams – and later the Chargers – would share the then-unbuilt SoFi Stadium.

Hollywood Park and surroundings in Inglewood Google Maps

Just one year after the NFL’s announcement, the Los Angeles Clippers signaled their intent to build a new arena on city-owned properties along Century Boulevard – directly across the street from Hollywood Park.  That $1.2-billion complex is scheduled to break ground later this year, with opening expected in time for the 2024-2025 NBA season.

The City of Inglewood, in the hope of connecting the new sporting venues with rail transit, is also pursuing the construction of a 1.8-mile automated people mover system which would run between the Crenshaw/LAX Line and Hollywood Park.

SoFi Stadium, in addition to the neighboring Clippers development, has also sparked concerns of future displacement of longtime residents in Inglewood as a result of new investment attracted by the two sporting venues.  As a response to those concerns, the City of Inglewood adopted a permanent rent control ordinance in 2019.

Read the article at Urbanize.

How SoFi Stadium makes a revolutionary design promise: A place for all to play 840 379 Madison Silvers

How SoFi Stadium makes a revolutionary design promise: A place for all to play

exterior image of the modern sofi football stadium. large modern white structure sits on a small lake with evergreen plantings surrounding

In less than two weeks, if the NFL moves forward as planned, SoFi Stadium will open in Inglewood after more than five years of design and construction.

Finally, the Rams will no longer have to play in the sun-baked L.A. Coliseum. Finally, the Chargers will no longer have to be squatters in the tiny Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly the StubHub Center and the Home Depot Center). Finally, owner Stan Kroenke will see his dream of a $2 billion (well, make that more than $5 billion now) sports and entertainment park begin to come true.

But here’s the more important news: From a design and urban planning standpoint, SoFi is, potentially, revolutionary.

That’s because, in many ways, this stadium is not really a stadium. It’s not a solid concrete and steel bowl where fans park cars and push their way in and out eight times a year. And it’s not a themed shopping mall and mini amusement park grafted onto a sports facility.

SoFi Stadium is a porous, indoor-outdoor, year-round complex featuring, yes, a 70,000-seat stadium and lots of parking, but also a 2.5-acre public plaza, an adjacent 6,000-seat performance space and a layered landscape filled with hills, trees, places to pause and sit and eat — all connected to a vibrant 25-acre community park surrounding a 5.5-acre lake.

The 300-acre complex, to be called Hollywood Park, is slated to phase in over many years more than 1.5 million square feet of retail, restaurant and office space (including the almost-complete NFL Network headquarters and studios), at least 2,500 townhomes and apartments and a hotel.

The idea of a stadium as the focal point for a mixed-use project is not new. So-called sports-anchored developments are becoming the norm nationwide, from Patriot Place in New England to the Arlington Entertainment District in Texas. But more than any of those developments (including downtown Los Angeles’ L.A. Live), this complex — its stadium’s façade curving like the sweep of the coast — is authentically inspired by, and caters to, its setting.

“We were trying to create an expression of Southern California,” said Lance Evans, principal with HKS Architects. “Something that would resonate with this climate and with this place.”

This is something that only Dodger Stadium — embedded into the earth, obsessed with the future and surrounded by palm trees, the landscapes of Elysian Park and, alas, a heroically scaled parking lot — has managed to accomplish in terms of local sports venues.

Workers have been putting the finishing touches on SoFi despite the risk of COVID-19 infection (more than 50 have tested positive) and two deaths on the site, including one caused by a fall from the roof.

Citing the pandemic, the Rams, Chargers and SoFi jointly announced Aug. 25 that games will be played without fans “until further notice.” Once fans are allowed to come, they will approach a stadium whose field level is embedded 100 feet into the earth, reducing the building’s bulk as seen from the rest of the neighborhood and making a trip inside reminiscent of a trek down bluffs to a beach in, say, Malibu. Along the way they will proceed via a fractured landscape of textured pathways, gardens, patios and food stalls, descending through what the project’s landscape architect, Studio-MLA, calls “canyons” — terraced trails filled with earthen mounds and plants and trees from around California, weaving in and out of the stadium.

“It’s all about how the stadium is part of the landscape and the landscape is part of the stadium,” said Studio-MLA founder Mia Lehrer, who has designed green spaces for Dodger Stadium and for Banc of California Stadium in Exposition Park. She also is imagining the surroundings for the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

In classic SoCal fashion, the stadium, its edges open to the outdoors along the sides, blurs the line between interior and exterior, inviting visitors, and views, inside. It pulls in ocean breezes through its aerodynamic shape, its permeable flanks, the lifting of its seating bowl above the ground-level concourse and massive (60 feet by 60 feet) adjustable openings in its roof that can slide like sunroofs on cars. These openings can “tune” the wind flow, according to HKS, which designed recent stadiums for the Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts and Dallas Cowboys.

The roof, which covers and unifies the stadium bowl, plaza and adjacent arena, is clad in ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE, a tough, translucent plastic that, thanks to its dotted frit pattern, shades fans from about half of the sun’s heat. (If you’ve roasted at the Coliseum or at Dodger Stadium, you will appreciate that.) The ETFE also will allow concerts, community gatherings, e-sports, the Super Bowl and the Olympics to carry on in the rare case of rain.

Read the full article at the Los Angeles Times.

Take An Aerial Tour of Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium 1024 562 Madison Silvers

Take An Aerial Tour of Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium

The most expensive stadium ever built in the United States.

aerial image of an in-progress football stadium and the surrounding construction sites. the site is set in a desert scape with bright blue, clear skies.

SoFi Stadium, the NFL venue at the heart of the massive Hollywood Park development in Inglewood, is slated to become the new home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers upon completion later this year.  Here’s a look at the pace of construction on the project, which will reportedly be the most expensive stadium ever built in the United States, with a price tag of approximately $5 billion.

Designed by HKS Architects, the approximately 70,000-seat stadium is capped by a swooping roof canopy clad with the plastic material ETFE.  While the roof structure serves the important purpose of weather shielding, it also doubles as a display space for advertising.

Work is currently in progress on a large oculus scoreboard structure which will hover above the playing field.

Also under construction next to the stadium of the seven-story, 200,000-square-foot NFL Media Building – slated to become the new home of the NFL Network, NFL.com, the NFL app, and NFL Redzone.  That contemporary mid-rise structure is designed by Gensler and Studio MLA, and will include a large attached parking garage.  Completion is expected by the end of 2020.

At the intersection of Prairie and Century Boulevard, plans call for an approximately 500,000-square-foot retail and entertainment complex highlighted by Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas, Three Weavers Brewing Company, and Olympix Fitness.

The retail and entertainment component’s design team includes BCV, AO, and Studio MLA.

rendering of two mid-rise multi-family residential buildings of modern design and set in a bustling urban neighborhood with people going to and from on the sidewalks lining an active roadway

Plans also call for two apartment buildings – totaling 314 rental units – to open along the Prairie Avenue side of the property.  Those buildings are being designed by Hart Howerton, with TCA Architects serving as the architect of record.

The stadium, retail complex, housing, and NFL Media Building represent the initial phase of construction at the Hollywood Park complex, scheduled to debut during 2020 and 2021.

Subsequent phases of the project – which is being developed by Wilson Meany:

  • 25 acres of open space – highlighted by an artificial lake;
  • 300,000 square feet of additional office space;
  • a 340,000-square-foot expansion of the retail complex;
  • a 300-room hotel; and
  • up to 2,500 homes.

The Hollywood Park complex – spanning nearly 300 acres – has kicked off a rush of investment in Inglewood.

Last year, the Los Angeles Clippers announced plans for a $1.2-billion arena and entertainment complex along Century Boulevard – just south of the under-construction football stadium.

The City of Inglewood has also kicked off plans to connect the Hollywood Park complex with the Crenshaw/LAX Line, proposing a 1.8-mile automated people mover system.

These investments come as the new stadium is poised to play an important role in several events of regional significance, including the 2022 Super Bowl and the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.

Read the full article at Urbanize LA.

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