Production firm Gnet will decamp from its current home in Hollywood to a new office on the Miracle Mile. 

The Los Angeles Business Journal reports that the company has signed a lease for nearly 17,000 square feet of space at 5455 Wilshire Boulevard - a 22-story office tower owned by Jamison Services, Inc.  The company is scheduled to move its headquarters in 2021.

In local and state election news:

  • Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas is on track for a return to the Los Angeles City Council, outpacing rival Grace Yoo in the race for the 10th District seat.
  • Nithya Raman is expected to come out on top in the race for Los Angeles Council District 4.  Her victory over incumbent David Ryu would represent the first ouster of a sitting Councilmember in nearly two decades.
  • State Senator Holly Mitchell has won election to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, defeating City Councilmember Herb Wesson.  With her win, the Board of Supervisors will consist of five women for the first time in its history.
  • Incumbent Jackey Lacey has conceded to challenger George Gascon in the race for Los Angeles County District Attorney.
  • Measure J, which mandates that Los Angeles County allocate a minimum of 10 percent of its unrestricted general fund revenues to address racial injustice, is on track to pass.
  • Proposition 15, which calls for the State of California to tax commercial property based on current market value, is trailing.
  • Proposition 21, which would expand the ability of jurisdictions to adopt rent control policies statewide, appears to have failed. 
  • Proposition 22, which exempts Uber and Lyft drivers (as well as other "gig" workers) from AB 5, is on track to pass.

For a closer look at the results in other Los Angeles County jurisdictions, take a look at Streetsblog LA's November election roundup.

More headlines from the past week:

  • Park or parking lot: What should become of a former oil dumping ground near Los Cerritos?: "An empty plot of land adjacent to the Los Angeles River is slated to become the new location for a self-storage facility and a RV storage lot—but a group of neighborhood residents have vowed to fight the project." (Long Beach Business Journal)
  • COVID-19 has made this the saddest Day of the Dead in Los Angeles: "All over the region, in people’s homes and in plazas and parks, altars have been prepared for tonight’s celebration. Many Angelenos like Jimenez find themselves observing a Día de los Muertos in 2020 like none other in their lives: apart, and with so many dead." (LA Times)
  • Metro and LADOT’s New Aliso Street Bus Lane, and What Comes Next?: "There are some additional bus lanes coming soon in downtown L.A. – on Grand and Olive – but what comes next? How and where can this low-cost model spread outside of the downtown core, and outside the city of Los Angeles?" (Streetsblog LA)
  • Los Angeles comes to life on the night of Dodgers’ World Series win: "A World Series in Los Angeles changes nothing about everything we’re facing in the coming weeks, months and years. Justin Turner testing positive for the coronavirus during the game and possibly infecting others during the on-field celebration reminded us of that. A pandemic is still killing us, and the uncertainty of a contested election looms....But for one night, a lot of us got to feel happy to be alive. This World Series win may be the only thing about this year I never want to forget. And we have the Dodgers to thank for that." (LA Times)
  • Planners OK plan to help transit center development: "The Planning Commission unanimously adopted the Palmdale Transit Area Specific Plan that includes a framework for the development of a pedestrian-oriented mixed-use area surrounding the existing Palmdale Transportation Center and future multi-modal California High Speed Rail station." (Antelope Valley Press)
  • Exploring the restoration of Ballona Wetlands, the last landscape of its kind in LA: "In pre-industrial times, much of the Los Angeles area was covered with healthy wetland habitat. As LA urbanized, however, 90% of wetland habitat was destroyed. This left the Ballona Wetlands, located south of Marina del Rey and east of Playa del Rey, as the only remaining piece of coastal wetland in LA – and a severely disturbed one at that." (Daily Bruin)
  • Turning golf course into affordable housing: "As Los Angeles continues to struggle with an affordable housing crisis, one designer has come up with the idea of turning a public golf course into affordable housing units." (Fox 11)