Prologis Shifts Gears on Arts District Plan

Prologis has moved forward with plans to redevelop a former Greyhound bus station in Downtown Los Angeles into an entertainment studio campus.

The San Francisco-based industrial developer had a new planning study published last month by Los Angeles planners for the nearly 9-acre production campus at 1716 East 7th Street, Urbanize Los Angeles reported.

Plans for the 364,000-square-foot studio campus, dubbed Alameda Crossing, include four buildings with nine soundstages, more than 132,000 square feet of ancillary offices, 57,000 square feet of production support facilities and parking for 718 cars.

The developer has apparently revised its plans since 2022, when it proposed to build 291,000 square feet of studios, offices and support facilities, 10 soundstages and a parking garage for 941 cars.

Off the table from its initial proposal is a plan to redevelop the former bus terminal at the southeast corner of 7th and Alameda streets into a logistics hub for research firms.

The latest plan includes a ground-floor commissary and cafe on 7th Street, as well as terrace decks overlooking the Downtown skyline and the Los Angeles River.

The project, designed by Chicago-based SOM, would be as tall as 132 feet, with “long, simple buildings with an expressed structural or construction logic,” ringed by a decorative fence and trees. The six-story studio offices would contain floor-to-ceiling windows and broad white eaves, supported by round vertical pillars, according to a rendering.

Pending approvals, Prologis would break ground in 2027 and be completed by 2029.

Prologis bought the former bus terminal in 2021 for $91 million. Greyhound has moved its L.A. buses to Union Station Patsaouras Transit Plaza.

The project is one of three large studio developments in the works along the Alameda corridor in Downtown Los Angeles, following similar projects at 6th and 8th Streets, according to Urbanize.

— Dana Bartholomew