Now that's mixed use

801 South Grand Street, Los Angeles. Photos from the project website.

The Wall Street Journal reports today on Sky at 801, a 22-story 1980s-era building in Los Angeles that is used as an office building, but where the top 11 floors are being converted to condominums, and ground floor retail is being enhanced. See the original press release from last year and the project website.

It helps to be able to have tall buildings. The maximum height of a DC building is 13-15 floors. This makes it almost impossible to do projects such as these in a city like DC. BUT, there are plenty of such opportunities in other traditional center cities that are defined by their tall buildings.


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