If the new apartments tower had been planned for another land, there is a good chance that the concrete plant in the middle of the city would have helped build it.
But, in this case, the centenary installation on avenue Brea which provided concrete for the buildings and roads of the Los Angeles region was seated where the tower must rise.
Now the installation of West Hollywood has stopped working in order to make way for a new apartment round.
A worker sprays water to keep the dust down at the Cemex concrete plant in West Hollywood. A 34 -storey apartments building is provided for the site.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
The mixture factory which regularly filled fleets of trucks with ready -to -use concrete has stood out as an urban oddity in recent years, a dusty and noisy industrial court on avenue Brea Brea near Santa Monica Boulevard, in front of a shopping center with a target store.
Straddling the border between West Hollywood and Los Angeles, he supported the Sycamore district booming in Los Angeles which includes high -end stores, restaurants and art galleries that have emerged in the old industrial district.
Cemex Hollywood's concrete factory was one of the last industrial companies operating in West Hollywood, Jennifer Alkire, deputy director of community development, said.
The CEMEX concrete factory in West Hollywood has been described as “the pioneer mixing plant to the west” in a 1924 issue of Concrete magazine.
(CIM group)
“It was definitely an unusual use, especially since the city continued to develop and change and grow,” she said. “Obviously, he was there well before the incorporation of the city” in 1984.
A 1924 number of Concrete Magazine said that the 1000 la Brea Ave. seemed to be “the mixing factory of pioneers in the West”, the first of the kind offering a “cement of portland cement ready to use in quantity if necessary.”
Although concrete has been a preferred building material for hundreds of years, it is the advances of the 20th century in truck technology that made delivery instead of mixed on site.
In 1924, concrete from the Brea factory was used to pave the streets in Los Angeles, the magazine said. Customers included standard and union oil companies, as well as the famous Lastlasky players, Buster Keaton and Vitagraph Movie Studios.
The ready-made concrete factories continued to support development in the Southern California region during the boom for the construction of the post-second world war era, according to research prepared for a project of environmental impact report on the planned development of the Avenue La Brea site. The factory was improved in the 1930s and 1960s and operated continuously until it closed a few weeks ago.
As the mechanical plants leave, it was quite simple. The belts of almost vertical conveyors raised dry ingredients at the top to be deposited in hoppers where they were mixed with water, then the humid concrete was poured into waiting trucks below. Concrete trucks have regularly lines up in the neighboring streets before leaving directly on the Brea avenue with their agitator drums.
His latest operator, Mexican Multinational Building Material Company CIMEXrefused to comment on the closure. The owner of the company, the developer of Los Angeles, Cim Group, said that the lease of Cemex on the property had to expire at the end of November and that it would erase the structures site and leave. At the end of October, most of the plant had been dismantled and transported.
CIM Group Look for approval of the city of West Hollywood to build an apartments complex of 514 units that would fill a large part of the old factory site and another plot on the Brea avenue. Called 1000 BREA, it would increase 34 floors and include retail space for stores and restaurants.
There would be gardens on the roof, a swimming pool, a fitness center, a yoga room and a library. There would be an underground and above -ground parking, and at least 20% of the units should be designated as affordable with subsidized rents.
A rendering of an artist shows the apartment tower provided for the site of the Cemex concrete factory at 1000 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood.
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Shaul Kuba, co-founder of the CIM group, said he expected to be located on the edge of the High -end Sycomore district Will help the apartment to build land tenants. The neighbors would include Hollywoodiens production facilities such as the old Warner Bros. studio. now known as lots and other entertainment companies, including Sirius XM Studios broadcaster And Jay-Z's Entertainment Company.
“This should become a place where people in the neighborhood entertainment industry can live and be close to their work,” he said. “The entertainment industry is very concentrated in this area at the moment.”
The east side of West Hollywood has gone from the collection of commercial buildings, mainly low, said Alkire, including several residential buildings for mixed several floors and neighborhood retail properties such as Movietown Square apartments and the West Hollywood Gateway shopping center.
California cities need more apartments to achieve housing goals, she said. “It has definitively been a priority by our municipal council and by the State.”
CIM hopes to innovate on the project next year and finish it by 2028, said Kuba.
