Olympic Tower Los Angeles

OlympicTowerLA.com  811 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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A new mixed-use hotel, retail and residential building development is under way in Downtown Los Angeles on Olympic.  Across the street from The Ritz-Carlton, the new building will replace what is currently Downtown’s most convenient car wash.  The cars of DTLA will get a little dirtier as there are no other quick drive-through car washes in the booming neighborhood.

With some unusual features including a weird pinch in the middle, Curbed LA calls the new building design “bonkers”.

At the end of 2015, plans were unveiled for a redevelopment of the Downtown Car Wash in South Park, Olympic Tower 60-story tower with LED signs and live plants interwoven into its exterior, along with a rooftop garden.  374 residential units, 33,500 square feet of office space, a 10,800-square-foot conference center, and more than 65,000 square feet of restaurant and retail space will join a 373-room hotel.

Architecture firm Nardi Associates says that the building will feature a structural grid with live plantings, like a gigantic “urban tree”.  An open-air atrium will be encased by a metal structure with a sloping roofline, so the highrise will have a sharp roof instead of a helipad.

In 1980,  the car wash developer paid only $525,000 for the parcel. By 2005, the land was valued at $2.4 million. In 2014, developer Ben Neman bought the parcel for $25 million.

The building’s height means that it would block views of the Hotel Figueroa. There is no word on whether the residential portion will be rental or condo, but rental is more likely based on what most other developers have been choosing.

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When is the Right Time to Sell a Downtown Loft?

How to Sell Your Own LoftWhile more people are moving into Downtown than moving away, there are those who prefer to sell when they are sure that the price and equity are at a healthy level. Many loft owners in DTLA are able to move up to a larger loft, while some others are having kids and want to move to a highly esteemed school district area in the suburbs.

The L.A. Loft Blog, the authority on Downtown residential real estate, receives real-time market data and feedback every day.  Based on that large quantity of first-hand observations and real estate market service data, the true nature of the Downtown real estate market is normal and near middle of the cycle.  That means that it makes sense for both buyers and sellers to make a move now if they prefer to move during a safer, more typical real estate market cycle. That being said about market timing, Downtown Los Angeles is anything but a typical real estate market.  During the most recent cycles, Downtown performed better than the average U.S. neighborhood and better than the average California neighborhood during both the up cycle and down cycle because DTLA has extremely fast growth overall.

Here some recent articles that discuss whether or not now is a good time to sell a home:

When is the Right Time to Sell Your Home?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Saving-Money/2016/0223/When-is-the-right-time-to-sell-your-house

Now I Get It: When to Sell Your Home
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/now-i-get-it–when-to-sell-your-home-225837862.html

The Best Times to Sell Your House
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/mortgages/the-best-times-to-sell-your-house/

Sales of Existing U.S. Homes Rise Rise to 2nd-Highest Pace Since 2007
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/Economy/homes-sales-housing-economy/2016/02/24/id/715832/

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