Regional

DTLA landlord bets big on legal weed.

The Planning Department reports that 19 percent of new housing entitlements have used the guidelines since their enaction.

Two projects in unincorporated communities seek over $50 million in bonds.

"Metro has laid out six workable alternatives, but there may be a cheaper option that avoids the construction of a costly tunnel beneath the Santa Monica Mountains."

Two advertising studios make moves in DTLA and Park Mile.

"The lessons that can be learned from this story about transformative change in Los Angeles can be applied beyond the ‘sprawling’ but still limited confines of this metropolis."

"...an increasingly dense Downtown can play host to a denser set of high-value businesses, with the efficient economies of scale that come with such clustering."

"Los Angeles 3.0 is in certain respects a hybrid form of its previous two iterations."

After the recession, major real estate players returned to DTLA in force.

The project would create a combined 588 residential units.

But barring a sudden cash windfall, it won't happen for about 50 years.

The latest sites are in West Los Angeles and Koreatown.