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rcrane
unreg |  posted 09-07-2002 05:08 PM
From the Hollywood Independent:Legacy Partners is seeking to build a 217,000-square-foot mixed-use development on Wilshire Boulevard between Ridgeley Drive and Burnside Avenue. The developer's preliminary proposal would replace the buildings which house Sav-On Drugs and Office Depot with 197 apartments above 25,000 square feet of retail space and a three-level, 492-space parking structure. The building to be replaced was featured in one of Nichols' "Identify This Building" e-mails a while back. Is this building significant? Should it be defended against the Legacy of Terror? It sure is a looker. Do I smell another banal styro-mission retail complex in the works?
| Nathan
reg | posted 09-07-2002 05:27 PM
Can we get a link here to images of these structures? If they're the buildings I think they are, then no, the Legacy of Shame shall not be allowed to continue...
| Lynxwiler
unreg | posted 09-08-2002 11:56 AM
The Office Depot/Save-On building was the original home of the Mullen Bluett department store. It is a part of the original Miracle Mile development by A. W. Ross and is as significant as its art deco, high rise neighbors and the unfortunately demolished Coulter's next door. The open pit of the once renowned Coulter's store is slated to become a senior housing high rise. It appears that with the development of one major apartment complex, another is trying to squeeze in to turn one more section of Wilshire into Westwood's congested Wilshire Corridor. The Mullen Bluett building is important to the streetscape of Wilshire and to the honor of the Miracle Mile development. I say, not in my backyard.
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