The Los Angeles planning department has given approvals to plans by New York-based East End Capital to turn a cold-storage warehouse property in Boyle Heights into a new production studio development, according to a determination letter posted by the city of Los Angeles this month.
The development plans, which are currently named Jesse St. Studios, will take shape at 2233 – 2251 Jesse St. and 634 S. Mission Road, the site of a 146,678-square-foot, two-story cold-storage warehouse. The existing facility’s floor area will be converted and another two stories will be added to facilitate the addition of media production studio, soundstage, and ancillary office uses. In all, the transformed building will be about 237,000 square feet and rise to a maximum height of 64 feet, plans show.
A real estate investment firm, East End Capital first submitted plans for the development earlier this year. It is joined in the project by companies including project architect Relativity Architects.
While floors two through four of the new building will be used for office space, designs call for the structure’s ground floor to have five wings ranging in size from 19,500 to 37,000 square feet that each will serve as a sound stage and motion picture set as needed, plans show.
The Boyle Heights project will provide 380 automobile parking spaces and 376 bicycle spaces.
