Over the past six years, the Miracle Mile corridor in Mid-City has been the setting for many of the city’s largest development projects — from the Academy Museum to the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA and the Metro D Line, which just last week opened underground stations at Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega.
A newly proposed Miracle Mile project would dwarf all of them.
Exterior view of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Wilshire Boulevard. GC Images Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, Calif. — once home to “Family Guy.” Getty Images Vancouver-based ONNI Group filed an application with the city to build two 67-story residential towers directly across from the Screen Actors Guild and mere steps from the new rail line which would top out at 797 feet, making them the 4th and 5th tallest towers in LA if completed today.
Those towers would replace much of the Wilshire Courtyard, a historic office complex which has been home to some of the industry’s biggest brands including E! Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter and NBCUniversal, among others.
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Since it was built in 1987 everyone from Seth MacFarlane to Lee Daniels and Aaron Spelling has had offices there. The project would create 2,586 new units (from studios to three-bedrooms), with 56,400 square feet of new commercial space. That would include a new grocery store and restaurants. The plan would create parking for 2,129 vehicles and 197 apartments for low-income households.
According to a report in UrbanizeLA, while more than half of the Wilshire Courtyard would be demolished, a portion of its current footprint would be salvaged. The project overall would create an astounding 2.4 million square feet of floor area. The Chicago-based architectural firm SCB is designing the plans.
