Recapping the biggest developments, renovations and new constructions planned for West Hollywood in the coming years. 

COMING SOON

Holloway Interim Housing Facility

After securing grant money and acquiring the property last April, WeHo is getting ready to transform the dilapidated motel into a uber-controversial “transitional housing” facility for the homeless run by Ascencia, one of the city’s main contractors for homeless services. The facility will offer homeless people temporary residences for periods of 30 to 90 days while receive services like healthcare, nutrition, financial planning, community activities, employment readiness and help finding permanent housing. The program will include 24/7 onsite staff and safety services. WeHo is looking at having it up and running sometime in 2024.

8850 Sunset/The Viper Room project

The current version of the mixed-use development at 8850 Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood, known as the Viper Room project is an 11-story building with a 90-room hotel, 62 market-rate condominiums, and 14 affordable units. Neighbors have railed against this project for years but it appears unstoppable at this point. Last update: May 2023

Fairfax/Fountain apartments

A five-story apartment building, containing a total of 73 bedrooms in 18 units. Each unit is a cluster of four or five bedrooms which each have a private bathroom, but they share a kitchen, living room, dining room, and laundry space. The building will also have three affordable one-bedroom units. Last update: 12/5/2021

Crescent Heights/Santa Monica Blvd. apartments

The proposed development, dubbed “8025 Santa Monica,” is planned for the corner plot located at the junction of Santa Monica and Crescent Heights Boulevard. It’s a massive seven-story building, incorporating 115 varied apartments — studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units — over a retail space of 3,909 square feet on the ground level. The structure also includes parking provisions for 115 vehicles across three underground floors.

Wetherly Project

The proposed WHCHC project is a 14,400-square-foot site with 89 units at 910 Wetherly Drive.

FAR OFF, IF EVER

The Arts Club

The Planning Commission originally approved the project at 8920 Sunset Boulevard, the site of the former Hustler Store, back in 2018. The nine-story building would contain the club, offices, ground-floor retail areas, an art gallery open to the public, and 351 parking spaces across 120,000 square feet of total space. Last update: 4/9/2022

Huntley Project

The proposed eight-story tower on sleepy Huntley Drive has drawn much wrath from the neighborhood even though it’s years away from being built.

1000 La Brea

The city is reviewing a proposal for a 34-story mixed use tower that, if completed, would be WeHo’s tallest building. 1000 La Brea would be built on top of the cement plant near Target.

The Sphere

The Sphere itself is a proposed 49-foot diameter glass structure that’s conceived as a “broadcast venue,” with its shape allowing for a dynamic addition to the urban landscape. The project includes three digital billboards: two curvilinear billboards on the north face of the sphere and a third vertical billboard to the west. The design of these billboards is unusual and innovative, with the sphere’s digital LED billboards and two bookend structures, one of which is also a digital billboard, creating a gateway to a space of exploration, public interaction, and wonder.

The Melrose Triangle Project

Stuck in development hell. Likely will remain what it’s been for years: a hideous crater on the face of West Hollywood. 

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