Next Century Associates – Century Plaza Hotel
AGD oversaw all the entitlement issues and clearances for this $1.5-billion-dollar project. The project will retain the historic Century Plaza Hotel, add 290 residential condominiums in two forty-six story towers, and have approximately 100,000 SF of commercial/retail space.

AEG
AGD represents AEG on ongoing entitlement issues related to Crypto.com Center and the adjacent 6,000,000 square-foot L.A. Live development in downtown Los Angeles. On behalf of AEG, we obtained City approvals for the development of a new football stadium and convention center hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center. We are now assisting AEG in evolving those plans, including the new convention center hall and an expansion of the JW Marriott at L.A. Live.

USC – University Park Campus
USC’s University Park Campus project includes development of up to 5,020,140 of additional square feet of floor area of academic, commercial and housing uses within the Project site, consisting of high-density housing; commercial uses, such as retail, restaurants, grocery store, a 2,000-seat movie theater complex and University fitness center; a hotel and conference center with up to 150 keys, and conference and banquet facilities; a K-8 laboratory school and community educational academy, and remaining square footage devoted to academic and University uses.

Lakers – Training Facility
The Project includes the development of a new headquarters office facility that will house the team’s business and basketball operations and team training center with exhibition court and seating. The Project integrates the Lakers business and team operations, facilitating a synergistic relationship across all aspects of the Lakers organization and is designed to express the Lakers unique global brand and communicate the team’s identity, history, philosophy, goals and ambitions. In addition, the facility would be a showcase for player/coach recruitment and facilitate promotions involving corporate sponsors and strategic partnerships.

Onni Times Campus
The Onni Times Campus Project includes construction of two new high-rise mixed-use towers along with rehabilitation of three existing building, including an eight-story building (Times Building), a four-story building (Plant Building) and a 10-story building (Mirror Building), within the Times Mirror Square site.

Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts project includes demolition of existing surface parking lots and development of a new approximately 300,000 square-foot museum building that would include five-levels above grade rising to a maximum height of 115 feet. The project would include the construction of a two-level parking structure, located beneath the museum, and a separate three-level subterranean parking structure, to the south of the museum that will include replacement of the parking currently on the site. Up to 2,425 parking spaces would be provided to serve the museum and to replace the existing surface parking.

Brentwood School – Education Master Plan
AGD assisted Brentwood School in obtaining entitlements for the implementation of the Education Master Plan, a 30-year campus improvement plan that will alter both the East and West Campuses at the school. The changes to the East Campus include adding approximately 244,300 square feet of improvements, 170 new parking spaces, and increased enrollment over four years of 265 students. The changes to West Campus include improvements with a net addition of 32,119 square feet and 24 new parking spaces. Enrollment at the West Campus remains unchanged at 300 students.

Northlake
AGD represents Northlake Associates LLC in its development of approximately 1,330 acres of undeveloped land in unincorporated Los Angeles County. The proposed Project includes up to 3,150 residential units, as well as commercial uses, 791.6 acres of parks and open space, a 23-acre school site in the Phase 2 area, and a 1.4-acre pad for a future fire station.

Legacy Partners – Hollywood & Vine
Legacy’s Hollywood & Vine project is a mixed-use transit-oriented development consisting of 375 apartment units, 150 condominium units, a 300-room hotel with ancillary retail, restaurant and spa uses and approximately 61,500 square feet of retail/restaurant space, up to 1,311 parking spaces, transit improvements and landscaping.

Macerich – Santa Monica Place
Macerich converted the vacant approximately 50,000 square feet (“sf”) of retail space on the 3rd Level of the Santa Monica Place (“SMP”) Bloomingdale’s Building into an approximately 50,000 sf, nine-screen luxury multi-screen cinema complex with a up to 12 movie theaters and a seating capacity of 1,500 seats, including an outdoor terrace for ticket holders. The Project may also provide a lounge area and/or outdoor terrace area for ticket holders. Renovations were limited to the 3rd Level of the Bloomingdale’s Building, with an increased height by 36 feet to a height of approximately 84 feet above existing grade .

Pacific Gas & Electric – Diablo Canyon Power Plant
AGD represents Pacific Gas & Electric Company on land use matters related to its Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County. Most recently, we assisted PG&E in obtaining new leases for the Plant from the State Lands Commission and successfully defended a litigation challenge to that approval at the Superior Court and Appellate Court, resulting in a published opinion (World Business Academy v. California State Lands Commission (2018) 24 Cal.App.5th 476). We are currently representing PG&E in connection with obtaining local and state approvals associated with its license renewal and decommissioning efforts at Diablo Canyon Power Plant.

Avantus – Renewable Energy
We served as land use and CEQA counsel for Avantus – one of the leading developers of ground-mounted utility-scale solor photvoltaic projects in the United States, with more than 2,000 megawatts under development – in obtaining approvals for sites throughout Imperial County and Kern County.

Land’s End – Oceanaire
AGD assisted Land’s End in obtaining California Coastal Commission approval of a critically needed seawall permit for this apartment complex in Pacifica, California.

Trammell Crow – District NoHo

AGD is representing Trammell Crow on entitlements for a transit-oriented, mixed use joint development with LA County Metro at the North Hollywood station comprised of 1.5 million square feet of residential (1,500 units), office and retail/restaurant uses.

Sunset | Western

AGD assisted 5420 Sunset Blvd., LP, LLC in obtaining entitlements for the mixed use project at 5420 Sunset Blvd. with 735 residential units and about 90,000 square feet of commercial and retail uses, including a new market. The Project is currently under construction.