Most of the construction in Los Angeles is occurring downtown, but it isn't all new construction. After the initial wave of adaptive reuse multifamily projects, which in many ways acted as a catalyst for the Downtown renaissance, the new trend is the renovation of historic office properties. Several creative-style office redevelopment projects are under construction, and will deliver in the next two years to create a healthy stock of creative product.

“Most of the construction occurring in L.A. County is occurring in Downtown Los Angeles, and it isn't all new construction, like the Korean Air Tower,” Nico M. Vilgiate, EVP at Colliers International, tells GlobeSt.com. “It is repositioning older product, like the Harold Examiner Building or the L.A. Times Building. The historic buildings along Broadway that were mothballed have been popular for redevelopment. That is the type of real estate, the type of bricks-and-mortar, a lot of companies are looking for as opposed to your typical class-A high rise.”

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.

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