Greens Group Proposes Mixed-Use Development in Culver City

A stalled hotel project in Culver City is moving forward after years of inactivity on the planning front.

The Culver City Planning Commission is slated to review revised plans from Irvine-based development firm Greens Group for a mixed-use building at 11469 Jefferson Boulevard, Urbanize Los Angeles reported.

Culver City officials gave the greenlight in 2021 to Sandstone Properties’ plans to redevelop a shopping center into a hotel named “The Jeff.” That proposal called for the construction of a five-story building with 175 guest rooms above ground-floor restaurant space and a two-level subterranean parking garage with capacity for 138 cars.

The Greens Group plan keeps the hotel, albeit in a smaller footprint, and eliminates plans for a rooftop and meeting space in the building. The hotel would have 147 rooms and still feature a restaurant, coffee shop, fitness center and parking for 106 vehicles. The building would take the form of a low-rise structure with a central courtyard. It’s expected to take a year and a half to complete.

Sandstone purchased the development site in 2014 for $4.6 million. News of the company’s plans to build a hotel first surfaced in 2019.

Other mixed-use developments are in the works in Culver City.

This summer, Dallas-based Lincoln Property Company tweaked its plans for nearly 67,000 square feet of offices at 11111 Jefferson Boulevard, opting to build more housing rather than offices as office vacancy in the third quarter ticked up to 23.9 percent, per Cushman & Wakefield.

Elsewhere in Culver City, Los Angeles-based Hudson Pacific Properties is looking to redevelop a 169,000-square-foot office campus formerly occupied by the NFL’s media offshoot into a mixed-use development with housing and commercial uses. Hudson Pacific’s plans would turn the 6-acre property at 10950 Washington Boulevard into two five-story buildings turned into 508 apartments and 14,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.

Irvine-based Greens previously added a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport to its portfolio, snapping up the Wingate by Wyndham property near the airport in 2023 for $23.7 million. The 148-key property at 10300 La Cienaga Boulevard was bought in 1999 for $5.3 million by George and Linda Oh, with trustee Sandra Oh selling the lodging. The hotel has since closed and is no longer in operation.

— Chris Malone Méndez