Mirabel’s 42-story tower project moves ahead with release of DEIR
A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the Mirabel, a 42-story mixed-use tower with 348 residential units in Miracle Mile, was released by the City Planning Dept. Aug. 22.
MIRABEL will add a touch of elegance and views from 42 stories, says local businessman and developer Wally Marks.
The proposed development at 5411 Wilshire Blvd. includes 29 units set aside for very low-income households and 12,821 square feet of ground floor commercial uses.
The DEIR found the Mirabel Transit Priority Project would result in significant and unavoidable impacts related to historical resources and noise from construction vibration. All other impacts would be considered less than significant, according to the Notice of Completion and Availability of the DEIR.
A 45-day public comment period was initiated with the release of the document and ends on Mon., Oct. 7, 2024, at 4 p.m.
Comments can be mailed to Jason McCrea, City of Los Angeles, Dept. of City Planning, 221 N. Figueroa St., Room 1350, Los Angeles, 90012. Refer to Environmental Case No. ENV-2019-3937-EIR.
The document can be viewed online at tinyurl.com/bdemzvs9; it is also available at various library branches.
The Walter N. Marks, Inc.-family-owned property will be within walking distance of the new Metro subway stops bookending the Miracle Mile Historic District.
Wally Marks told us earlier this year he hoped to begin construction in 2025.
Mirabel
“The tower is a derivative of both the past and the future,” architect Richard Keating and his team explain on their website, keatingarchitecture.com.
Its 530-foot-tall tower features a glass exterior and has a curvilinear form, a rooftop deck and common open space above a parking podium.
A state of California density bonus program allows for more floor area than otherwise would have been allowed by local zoning.
As part of the Mirabel project, the façade of the historic 1936 Streamline Moderne Sontag Drug Store building — at the corner of Wilshire and Cloverdale Avenue — will be preserved.
The Mirabel will have parking for a total of 478 cars in an automated, three-level, underground garage modeled after a similar one at Marks’ Helms Bakery property in Culver City.
But Marks says he expects many of his new tenants to walk the one block to and from the new D (formerly Purple) Line Metro subway station at La Brea Avenue when the subway extension to La Cienega Boulevard opens in 2025.
The project will take an estimated 36 months of construction, once the EIR is reviewed and approved.
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