The owner of a former railroad right-of-way in Beverly Hills once slated for a controversial office complex is now looking to build housing on the property.'

Late in January, Lyn Konheim of BH Gateway, LLC submitted an application to the City of Beverly Hills seeking to redevelop a property at 9220 Santa Monica Boulevard. The project is described as a 500,000-square-foot development consisting of 12 different six-story structures and one four-story amenity building, seated atop two levels of subterranean parking. The proposal calls for 250 residential units, and utilizes state density bonus law to grant incentives and waivers from local zoning rules.

The amount of proposed affordable housing is not stated in the project description.

Prior plans from Konheim through the Beverly Hills Land Company had sought to develop the site with approximately 114,000 square feet of office space in 11 separate buildings, while also transferring a separate strip of land to the City of Beverly Hills for conversion to park space. That application has been formally withdrawn from consideration. 

Attempts to develop the site come a decade after the current land owners stirred controversy by removing roughly 200 trees from the former Union Pacific rail corridor between 2015 and 2016, The Beverly Hills City Council subsequently launched an investigation of that decision.

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