LOS ANGELES- MacFarlane Partners has entered escrow to purchase the Park Fifth site downtown for an undisclosed amount after nine months of negotiations. Once escrow closes in March 2014, the real estate investment company plans to develop a mixed-use high-rise building on the site.
“We're delighted to be back in Los Angeles to develop an underutilized parcel of land, one that's been promised development for decades, and now we're going to make it happen,” says Gregory Vilkin, MacFarlane Partners managing principal and president.
Pre-recession in June 2007, developer David Houk along with financial partners Africa-Israel Investments and Namco Capital Group planned a $1.3 billion development for the site with a 76-story building, the largest west of Chicago, and a 44-story apartment community. Hit hard by the recession, the venture stalled and had been looking for investors to take over the project.
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