CIM Aims to Build the Tallest Apartment Highrise in WeHo

CIM Group aims to spin a 60-year-old concrete plant in West Hollywood into the city’s tallest apartment building

The Mid-Wilshire-based developer has filed plans to build a 34-story highrise at 1000 La Brea Avenue, Urbanize Los Angeles reported. It would replace the Cemex Hollywood Concrete Plant.

CIM bought the 1.6-acre plant and a second parcel at La Brea and Sycamore avenues last June for $46.5 million.

In February, it filed plans to build a seven-story, 207,700-square-foot office building at 1011 North Sycamore Avenue.

Plans now call for a 514-unit apartment building next door – of which a quarter of the units, or nearly 130 apartments, would be set aside as affordable housing.

The 34-story highrise would include 30,000 square feet dedicated for a ground-floor grocery store. The complex would include parking for 674 cars and 393 bicycles.

The 1000 La Brea project, designed by Large Architecture based in Pico-Robertson, would be highest next to Romaine Street, then scale down toward a 91-room hotel CIM is building at 1040 La Brea.

The apartment building would resemble a tall stack of clear Legos topped by a landscaped deck on the roof, according to a rendering,

The project is expected to go to the West Hollywood Planning Commission and City Council in the first half of next year, with an environmental study expected to begin this summer.

CIM Group owns shops, restaurants and apartments along La Brea Avenue on the West Hollywood-Los Angeles border and has gradually developed a series of apartment buildings in the neighborhood. It also owns offices leased by SiriusXM and Kaiser Permanente.

— Dana Bartholomew