Additional creative office space could soon be making its way to Hollywood following recent approval from the City of Los Angeles Planning Commission. Plans for the project come from West Hollywood-based BARDAS Investment Group and would replace an existing, vacant private school with a new 75,262 square foot office campus.
The property is located at 1200-1210 North Cahuenga Blvd., and the project would include the construction of three buildings that will surround an outdoor courtyard. The building heights will range from two stories to four stories and includes ground floor retail use, according to project plans by House & Robertson Architects, which serves as the project’s designer.
The project also includes surface level and one subterranean level of parking with a total of 156 vehicle parking spaces and 22 bicycle spaces.
The project site consists of 13 parcels that are currently home to the vacant Stratford School as well as one recreational field and a basketball court over one subterranean parking level, and two playgrounds. Most existing uses would be demolished for the planned project to take place. However, the project would preserve and upgrade a 19,448 square foot portion of the building and its subterranean parking garage for the project.
Of the three total buildings, Building A would be located along the northern border of the project site and would reach 35,000 square feet and stand four stories. Building B would consist of the 19,448 square feet of the existing two-story school building. The 20,814 square foot and four-story Building C includes the new retail and café space and will occupy the southwest corner of the project site.
BARDAS Investment Group is a boutique real estate development and investment firm that was founded in 2018. The company has projects located throughout Los Angeles and has also completed $10 billion in transactions, according to its website.
In September of last year, the firm announced plans for the $600 million redevelopment of Hollywood’s former Television Center at 6311 Romaine Street in partnership with Bain Capital Real Estate. The project would reimagine the aging facility into a 620,000 square foot urban studio campus. The property totals 6.4 acres and was once occupied by Technicolor as well as the studio lot for Metro Pictures Corp. The existing facility was completed in 1966 and currently offers approximately 183,000 square feet of creative office and studio space.
