Five months after clearing the City Planning Commission, a pre-pandemic proposal from Jade Enterprises to build a new hotel and residential complex to Convention Center has received approvals from the Los Angeles City Council.

The South Park Towers development, slated for a freeway-adjacent property at 1600 S. Flower Street, calls for the construction of two high-rise buildings featuring a 300-room hotel, 250 residential units, 3,200 square feet of ground-floor restaurant space, 10,000 square feet of medical offices, and parking for 288 vehicles.

AC Martin is designing the near twin towers, which would stand 22 and 23 stories in height and rise 260 feet above street level. Plans show the building would include amenity decks at the podium and roof levels, and other common features such as fitness centers and meeting rooms. Digital signage would wrap the building podiums.

Freeway viewAC Martin

Construction of the mixed-use complex is expected to occur over a 32-month period, per an environmental study adopted by the City Council, although a precise start date for the project has not been announced.

As was the case when the project went before the City Planning Commission earlier this year, it was faced with an appeal from a neighboring property who argued that the plan violates an agreement dating to the 1980s which requires that parking for his land be provided at the South Park Towers site. The Council rejected the appeal, affirming the earlier decision.

Conceived at a time when Downtown was in the midst of a construction boom, the project is intended to cater to visitors to the Convention Center, where city officials have long called for increasing the supply of nearby hotel rooms. Work on a $2.6-billion expansion of the Convention Center commenced earlier this year.

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