The Star
A 29-story garden spiral is proposed for Sunset Boulevard
Foster + Partners' redesigned Hollywood office tower wraps a 460-foot workplace in planted terraces. The entitlement file is still in environmental review.
- Height
- 460 ft
- Stories
- 29
- Office
- 434,581 sf
- Restaurant
- 40,324 sf
maximum analyzed height
Prospective rendering / not a photograph of completed work
01 / Project brief
What is proposed
The current proposal replaces an earlier tower concept with a 29-story spiral of office floors and landscaped terraces. The Initial Study analyzes 434,581 square feet of office space, 40,324 square feet of restaurant space, production-support uses, a theater, and outdoor dining. Its height and shape make it one of Hollywood's most visually consequential pending projects, but a rendering is not an approval: the city is still preparing the environmental record.
02 / Consequence
Why it matters
Hollywood has no shortage of large projects on paper, but The Star is unusual in both scale and form. Its planted decks would create a highly visible marker on Sunset Boulevard, while its office-heavy program tests whether a post-pandemic Los Angeles can still support a major purpose-built creative workplace. The redesign also makes version history important: older images of the site show a different tower by a different architect.
03 / The approval stack
What the city rules mean
The EIR is the live gate
The city has opened an Environmental Impact Report under case ENV-2021-8030-EIR. That review measures impacts and identifies mitigation; it does not itself grant the requested land-use approvals.
Check the official record ↗The analyzed envelope is not a construction promise
The Initial Study sets a maximum analyzed height of 460 feet and describes the proposed floor area. Those figures define what the environmental document studies; later hearings and conditions can still alter the scheme.
Check the official record ↗Watch the case number, not the splash page
The official planning case is the reliable record for notices, environmental documents, hearings, and decisions. The project website is the better source for the current design and rendering set.
Check the official record ↗04 / Next signal
What happens next
The next document to watch is the Draft EIR. It should contain the city's full impact analysis, proposed mitigation, alternatives, and a new public-comment window before decision-makers take up the entitlements.
Primary source file
- 01The Star official project siteproject-team
- 02
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Canonical URL: https://federalweekly.com/projects/the-star-sunset-boulevard