Roger Vincent covers commercial real estate for the Los Angeles Times. He is a longtime observer of the industry who served as the first real estate columnist at the Los Angeles Business Journal in the mid-1980s. He was also founding editor of the California Real Estate Journal. He has been with The Times since 1996.
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The former Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, which helped lead an economic revival on a historic stretch of Broadway a decade ago, has reopened and will offer rooms in a style akin to Airbnb.
June 21, 2024
Graffiti artists made Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles infamous. But a far more complex question looms over the real estate catastrophe: Can it be salvaged?
June 20, 2024
The West Adams project is the latest Shaul Kuba real estate transformation. Critics cry gentrification. The CIM co-founder says it’s a value-driving revival.
June 16, 2024
Plans to build an office tower overlooking the Los Angeles River in the downtown Arts District have been canceled in the face of vast office vacancies.
June 10, 2024
Andrew Meieran will soon reopen the doors to Clifton’s, of one of L.A.’s legendary restaurants, in a bid to once again make it an offbeat dining destination.
June 5, 2024
AltaSea, a $30-million renovation of three historic waterfront warehouses, is nearing completion and aims to be an international leader in the “blue economy.”
May 27, 2024
As a legendary New York City set on Fox Studios’ backlot aged, a new one was needed. The set is the centerpiece of a movie studio that is itself a leading character in Hollywood lore.
May 17, 2024
The owners of Erewhon have filed an environmental lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles in an effort to stop the planned demolition of the Sportsmen’s Lodge hotel.
May 13, 2024
Oceanwide Plaza, the bankrupt, unfinished development in downtown Los Angeles that became a canvas for trespassing graffiti artists, is officially on the market.
May 8, 2024
David Simon is so bullish on Hollywood he’s building a new movie studio there from the ground up and renovating another one that dates to the days of silent films.
May 8, 2024