The owner of a former railroad right-of-way that cuts through the heart of Beverly Hills is shaking up plans for a multifamily residential development on the property.

Starting in early 2025, Lyn Konheim of BH Gateway, LLC has submitted multiple applications to Beverly Hills city officials seeking approvals for a series of residential structures containing approximately 250 residential units above parking. The latest of those, filed in late September, now cuts back the total proposed density, but expands on the amount of height.

A project description indicates that plans now call for four condominium buildings - ranging from seven to 13 stories in height - over a single level of subterranean parking on one of two lots included in the project. That 503,000-square-foot development would include 224 homes, with a portion to be set aside as affordable housing in exchange for density bonus incentives.

In what would appear to be a change from earlier plans, one of the two lots included in the project would be retained as a mixture of surface parking and recreational amenity space.

Before transitioning to a residential project, Konheim 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. The current land owners have found themselves as the center of controversy in the past due to the removal 200 trees from the former Union Pacific rail right-of-way between 2015 and 2016, prompting an investigation by the Beverly Hills City Council.

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