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To convert a former industrial cold storage and refrigeration facility into multiple soundstages and support space for film production, crews redesigned the existing thick insulated walls that kept cold in to instead keep sound out on this $91-million project.
This gateway shared by Riverside, Orange and San Bernardino counties provides a vital link for commuters and freight, so the initial plan to shut the freeway down for 55 hours during a weekend was not a popular one.
Funded by Measure S and built under the Compton Unified School District’s “Built by Compton” initiative is a $205-million, 31-acre campus with technology-enabled classrooms and a digital-first library for 1,800 students.
But before work even approached the active lines, crews first built 100,000 sq ft of greenfield space, transitioned people and equipment inside, then proceeded with the legacy building.
At the base of the Hollywood Hills on a wedge-shaped lot at Sunset and La Cienega, crews had to slowly make their way through dense rock before construction could begin
With a federally protected creek to the east, an active tribal burial ground and chapel to the west, a private parcel up north and a wildlife preserve down south, this casino resort hotel had to climb upward rather than outward.
Crews tore down three aging apartment buildings that held 12 apartments to make way for 185 apartment homes, providing a 15-fold increase in housing on the same Bankers Hill parcel.
The early 2025 Palisades Fire triggered a slope failure in the Castellammare neighborhood that took out part of Posetano Road, the only access and the utility route for three hillside homes.