What Happened to Frank Gehry’s Overhaul of Garden of Allah, L.A.’s Most Infamous Corner?

The project would have dramatically transformed the world-famous Sunset Strip. In 2021, despite legal challenges, architect Frank Gehry and developers Townscape Partners broke ground at 8150 Sunset Boulevard on a show-stopping complex in the heart of West Hollywood. A casualty of the pre-construction building-razing on the lot: the landmarked mid-century Lytton Savings and Loan bank. Underground at the site lay the buried remains of another razed landmark, a once-legendary Old Hollywood hotel complex known as the Garden of Allah. Yet the Gehry project—which once seemed unstoppable—may have been abruptly aborted. Last week, the WeHo Times broke the news that now-vacant… Read Full Article