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A prolonged, monster heat wave is hitting Southern California this week.

It started peaking on Tuesday, but the hot temperatures have already broken daily records in Burbank and Woodland Hills, according to Robbie Munroe, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. And it's likely to get worse.

"Today is the first day where we are maybe going to have a crack at some of those monthly records," Munroe said. "Really any day between now and Friday, a lot of areas will be close to those monthly records, in addition to likely setting daily records each day."

An extreme heat warning is in effect between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties.

This kind of hot weather is dangerous, just like other extreme weather events can be. Heat can take a huge toll on your health, even if you don’t immediately notice it, and can even be fatal. Here’s what you should know about the signs.

Listen to your body

Heat-related illnesses are preventable. Your body will start to give you warning signs about what you need when you’re in prolonged heat.

It’s essential to drink water often. If you feel thirsty while you’re outside, that’s a sign you’re already dehydrated.

Another thing to notice is the condition of your skin. Is it cold and clammy? Or bright red and dry? Seeing these signs is your body’s way of telling you which heat illness you may be developing, but either way that means you need to get out of the sun.

Heat stroke vs. heat exhaustion

Heat stroke is one of the most serious heat-related illnesses, according to the CDC, and it could be deadly if left ignored.

It’s what happens when the body can’t regulate your temperature anymore. You’re unable to cool down as your body heats up fast, so a telltale sign is that you won’t usually sweat. The CDC says some people may go the other direction and profusely sweat, too.

You might feel a throbbing headache and a strong, rapid pulse. You could also experience confusion, slurred speech and nausea. Your skin will likely be hot, red, and dry, accompanied by a high internal temperature (if you have a thermometer close).

If you are feeling symptoms of heat stroke, call 911 immediately because this is a medical emergency.

L.A. city officials are warning the heat may be dangerously high.

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Heat exhaustion on the other hand is your body’s response to an excessive loss of water and salt.

It makes you feel faint and dizzy. You’ll sweat a lot, and your pulse will be pretty weak. Your skin is usually cold and clammy, even pale at times. Nausea could happen here, too, and muscle cramps are possible. You also may not urinate much.

If you find yourself ticking any of these boxes, move somewhere cool, drink water, and take a cold shower if you can. Even a cold compress could help cool you down.

Heat syncope and cramps

Among the lesser known heat health effects are heat syncope and heat cramps.

Heat syncope (pronounced like sink-a-pee) is when you pass out from the heat. It can occur more when you change environments, like going from a cooler area to one with blistering sun, or by make sudden movements in hot weather.

You can get faint or dizzy standing for too long, or by suddenly standing up and sitting down, due to a lack of adequate blood supply to the brain. Dehydration and lack of acclimatization (not allowing your body to adjust to the temperature) can trigger heat syncope.

Heat cramps can crop up if you’re doing a lot of physical labor while it’s hot. As your body releases sweat, the low salt levels it leads to means your muscles could spasm and cramp up.

Keep in mind, this could also be a symptom of heat exhaustion, so pay attention to your pulse.

El seis, they call it.

That day in June of last year when armed federal immigration officers descended on a garment shop in Los Angeles’ Fashion District, arresting and shackling more than a dozen employees before whisking them away in unmarked vans. The raid on Ambiance Apparel became one of the defining images of the June surge in Los Angeles.

For the family and friends of detained workers from Ambiance Apparel, who gathered for an anniversary press conference this summer, the date had become so ingrained in their minds that it earned the Spanish shorthand for “the sixth.”

An organizer assured the apprehensive crowd that they had permission to be there but cautioned that, if anything happened during the event, they should walk calmly to their cars. When a helicopter hovered overhead a few minutes later, a woman in the crowd glanced up and winced. High-profile raids have given way to a quieter era of enforcement, but arrests and removals are still happening at high rates across Southern California and, during a national surge in late June, officials detained more than 10,000 people in five days.

“We’re still afraid,” said Francisco, a longtime garment worker in the crowd who works for a different company and asked to be identified only by his first name for safety reasons. After that day, he said, the Fashion District became “a ghost town.”

The financial impact of the raids was swift and devastating across the region.

But commercial corridors near enforcement sites got hit especially hard. In the Fashion District, where a majority of workers and shoppers are Latino, foot traffic tanked, falling almost to pandemic-era levels.

Businesses near nine immigration enforcement sites saw a steep decline in visitors, accumulating an estimated $3.16 million in losses in the two weeks after the raids began, according to a July study from UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, which analyzed cell phone location data. Hardest hit of all was the Fashion District — a business zone so dense researchers tallied more than 550 businesses within a half mile of Ambiance — which lost an estimated $1.52 million in two weeks.

The Fashion District bleeds into the Piñata District, where papered figurines of ICE agents are on display.

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And that estimate is conservative, said Ariana Valle, one of the authors of the report, who noted the figure accounts only for formal businesses, not the many street vendors in the district.

Researchers interviewed several business owners this spring, Valle said, including some in the Fashion District whose sales declined so drastically after the raids that they had to take out loans and cancel expansion plans. Others were considering closing their businesses and many spoke of the day of the Ambiance raid in still-fresh detail.

One respondent recalled the collective clang of dozens of roll-down metal security gates on storefronts slamming down, Valle said, and some business owners said even whispers about the possibility of another raid severely erode their sales.

“They are hurting,” said Valle, an assistant professor of sociology at University of California, Davis. “It’s been a very unsteady and unstable recovery for many of them.”

Anthony Rodriguez, chief executive of the Fashion District’s business improvement district, said that although the area is seeing a gradual recovery, many business owners told the group they’re still working to regain customers.

On a Saturday morning this spring, vendors had set up stands on a sidewalk in the Fashion District.

A man was selling knockoff Lululemon leggings for $10, and a mother-daughter duo hawked World Cup totes for $4. An influencer walked backward holding a tripod with an iPhone facing her.

“We’re coming to you live from L.A.’s Fashion District!” she said. “Let’s go find some deals.”

The 107-block district, home to retail and wholesale shops and clothing factories, is a key apparel hub for the Western Hemisphere due to its proximity to the ports in the region. Wholesale buyers travel from across the globe to visit showrooms downtown, searching for wedding gowns or street-style sneakers to resell in their shops.

The district encompasses Santee Alley, a bargain bazaar, and bleeds into the Piñata District, where a longtime staple — papered figurines of President Donald Trump — was joined last summer by a newly popularized design: an ICE agent.

But on this Saturday morning, the busiest stand was the one with the woman selling fresh orange juice and $5 chorizo and potato burritos. Almost every other shop along one stretch had a “For Lease” sign taped to its glass door.

Outside a closed storefront, a woman browsed a metal rack, lingering on a zebra-print halter dress.

“For $1?” she asked the woman working the stand.

“No, I can’t,” the employee said.

“Come on.”

“I can’t. $5?”

The shopper walked away without the dress, and the employee shook her head.

A few weekends later, foot traffic was even slower. The streets were quiet save for the thump of a norteño-sax song blaring from a speaker outside V&C Casual, a shop in the Stanford Wholesale Mart.

The shop’s owner, Regino Tirado, sipped his coffee as he waited for customers. But everything had been slow, he said, since “El Seis.”

“After that day, no one wanted to come to the Fashion District,” he continued, panning toward the sidewalk. “Look, it’s empty.”

Regino Tirado stands outside his store in the L.A. Fashion District.

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Tirado has worked in the Fashion District for more than 25 years through several other lean times, including the Great Recession and pandemic lockdowns. But the past year has been the hardest.

“El peor de los peores,” he called it. The worst of the worst.

A shop across from him closed two months earlier, he said, and another in the plaza shuttered a month before that. Tirado’s business, which sells women’s puffer vests and jackets, had dropped by nearly 60% since a year earlier, and he doesn’t know how much longer he can stay open.

“It’s day by day,” he said.

A feverish demand for Mexico apparel during the World Cup had brought some reprieve. Tirado sold more than 2,000 jerseys to his wholesale buyers for around $10 a piece, but even that put him below the $25,000 in sales he used to bring in most months. These days, he’s lucky to make $10,000. And that’s before paying employees and the $5,000 rent.

His wholesale buyers, some of whom live in Mexico, Costa Rica and Colombia, used to visit twice a month to check out new merchandise. Now they come every other month, he said, and sales have increasingly moved to transactions made over WhatsApp.

“The main shoppers are Latino,” Tirado said, “and now everyone is scared.”

That fear is still palpable for Francisco, the longtime garment worker.

The 62-year-old, who specializes in sewing undergarments, spends his shifts picking up reams of fabric from vendors in the Fashion District and always keeps an eye out for parked SUVs, wondering if they might be unmarked ICE vehicles. He has stopped offering to pick up friends at LAX or taking occasional trips to visit his nephew in the Bay Area.

Some fellow garment workers now take Ubers home from work to avoid the bus stop, where officials have made arrests, and others switched to night shifts to evade raids. His roommates — a couple and their young children — now hole up inside on weekends, and although it pains him, he understands. He had stopped going for Saturday morning runs himself.

He followed news reports about the wrongful detention of U.S. citizens and the January killings of two protesters by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis, as well as the recent fatal shootings by ICE officers of immigrant men in Texas and Maine. The cases transported him to his childhood in the highlands of Guatemala, where he grew up during the nation’s brutal civil war, in which the government orchestrated the torture and killing of thousands of civilians, many of them indigenous Mayans like Francisco.

“It never crossed my mind that this would happen in the United States,” he said. “I came here to escape this.”

Francisco, whose first language was Kʼiche’, learned Spanish around age 8. As a teenager, he found work at a factory in Guatemala City sewing shirts for an American menswear brand. He eventually moved to Mexico, where he got a job in another warehouse, and then to Los Angeles in the early 1990s.

He worked a variety of jobs, including for a flooring contractor, and started taking English classes. But when work dried up after the 2008 financial crisis, he returned to his roots, taking on sewing gigs in the Fashion District. He eventually got a job sewing masks at Los Angeles Apparel, the site of a massive workplace outbreak during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was exposed and got so sick he spent two weeks in the hospital.

Francisco, a garment worker who is identified by his first name only for safety reasons, at work near downtown.

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After his release, his roommates were afraid of getting infected and asked him to move out. With financial help from the Garment Workers Center, an organization that advocates for workers, he moved into a hotel room for a time. He feels deeply grateful, he said, to have weathered that turbulent period.

“But,” he said, referring to the ongoing immigration crackdown, “another wave came.”

The national surge of detentions in late June exacerbated fears that had slowly dissipated in the community, said Francisco, adding that four of his friends were detained in the June 6, 2025, raids across the region, including a fellow Guatemalan from his soccer team. That morning, Francisco had been a few blocks from the Fashion District when a friend messaged him to avoid the area.

“Me escapé por un pelito de rana,” he said, using a Spanish phrase similar to escaping by the skin of one’s teeth.

During the June 6 press conference outside Ambiance, family members of detained workers stood not far from the spot where they had a year earlier peered past yellow police tape, watching their loved ones get loaded into vans. Other workers were detained from a separate location tied to Ambiance, whose representatives did not respond to a request for comment.

Some of the workers were ultimately released from immigration detention, including a man who introduced himself to the crowd as Lázaro.

“What was a normal day — a day like any other — turned into a painful nightmare,” he said.

A few minutes earlier, the crowd cheered as Ming Tanigawa-Lau, an attorney with the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, walked to the lectern. She had represented and helped secure the release from custody of another Ambiance worker.

“What took place last year was just a preview of what we would experience. Not only in L.A., but across the nation,” she said. “It tore families apart and left entire communities living in fear.”

In the crowd, Leslie Quechol nodded, cradling her newborn daughter to her chest.

A year earlier, she had been scheduled to go to her first OB-GYN appointment since finding out she was pregnant when she heard chatter about a raid at Ambiance. She cancelled her appointment and rushed to the shop, where she saw workers in a line with shackles around their wrists.

One of them was her cousin, whom she considers an older brother. She screamed his name, but he couldn’t hear her.

Quechol thought immediately of his wife and three children, especially his middle son, who has autism. He had recently made some big developmental progress. What would happen now, she wondered? And how would they make ends meet without their breadwinner?

“I knew everything was going to go downhill,” said Quechol, who added that, in spite of their ordeal, the family took deep solace in the support of fellow members of the Zapotec community. Her cousin told a community organizer who served as a media liaison at the event that he and his family were too afraid to speak with a reporter.

The Ambiance building in the Fashion District, where immigrantion officers detained more than a dozen workers.

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As the crowd dispersed, some family members stayed behind to dance to live music, and Francisco stood on a nearby sidewalk taking in the scene.

He reflected on the many jobs he’d had in the Fashion District — on the warehouse bosses who paid by the number of pieces sewn instead of hourly and how he sometimes earned as little as $300 a week. He had worked his way out of that place and into a more fulfilling, stable job where he has more autonomy.

He could finally afford to have fewer roommates and no longer thrift all his clothes. Sometimes, he said, he even treats himself to a coffee from the trendy shop near his job, reminiscing over all the years he exclusively visited the corner store downtown to get a cup for $1.

“It had more water than coffee,” he said with a chuckle.

And yet, for the first time in almost three decades, he is considering moving back to Guatemala.

He misses his sisters and often thinks about the tiny home they grew up in and how he’d like to help maintain it now that their mother is gone. He knows it hasn’t been easy for his friend, the soccer companion, who got deported back to Guatemala. But the constant unease is wearing on him.

The same search for a feeling of freedom that pulled him to the U.S. years ago was now pushing him away.

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Turner’s Outdoorsman on Mohawk Street in Bakersfield, California, sits on a busy intersection across from an oil drilling site. Over the past three years, this sporting goods store sold more than 16,000 firearms — and also appeared hundreds of times during criminal investigations as the source of guns found at crime scenes.

In Bakersfield alone, law enforcement traced 83 guns to the store from 2023 to 2025, according to newly-released data from the California Department of Justice (CADOJ). That was the highest number for a store with an active firearms dealer license in any of the state’s 10 most populous cities.

The Trace reported in May that the Turner's Outdoorsman chain, which has more than 30 locations across California, accounted for a disproportionate share of crime guns recovered in the state. CADOJ defines crime guns as those used in a crime, suspected to have been used in a crime, or illegally possessed.

The latest data adds a new dimension, showing the number of crime guns traced to individual stores by law enforcement in the state’s biggest cities.

The Turner’s on Mohawk Street has been in operation since late 2020. The business that previously occupied that storefront, Second Amendment Sports, which is no longer an actively licensed dealer, had 100 sales traced to recoveries in Bakersfield. All together, that means 183 firearms sold at that location were later recovered by law enforcement as crime guns in the same city during this three-year window. That number is higher than the combined total of the top 5 dealers for any other city in the data, including Los Angeles, Oakland, or San Diego.

In Bakersfield, outreach workers are making links between the store and violence in the city. Juan Avila, of the community violence intervention group Garden Pathways, said crime guns came up at a recent meeting between the Bakersfield Police Department and local CVI groups. "Many of those were being traced to Turner's," Avila said.

He said that tracking crime guns was a newer metric for the city’s violence intervention workers. “That's really what grabbed my attention is to see how many guns actually can be traced back to a local shop,” Avila said.

In response to a request for comment, Bakersfield police spokesperson Sally Selby said the department is “unaware of there being any illegal firearms sales or transactions that are occurring.”

Turner’s outlets are among the top firearms dealers tied to crime guns in Los Angeles, Fresno, Anaheim, and Long Beach. One Sacramento-area store, just outside city limits, was connected to 38 crime guns recovered by law enforcement in the capital.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty said that the prevalence of guns from that store, and from the dealer connected to the most crime guns for Sacramento, River City Gun Exchange, merit scrutiny from state and local law enforcement “to see if there's any shortcomings in background checks and procedures to make sure that guns aren't getting in the wrong hands.”

Experts, including former ATF agents and researchers, said a mix of factors may be behind the number of guns traced to a store, including location, inventory, prices, clientele, and nearby competition.

One chain, 8,500 crime guns

The Turner’s Outdoorsman chain remains the biggest source of crime guns across California, according to the report released in July. From 2023 to 2025, law enforcement in the state traced more than 8,500 crime guns to Turner’s.

The retailer is California’s largest gun seller, and its sale of 540,000 firearms makes up a significant percentage of all sales in the data’s three-year time period: 21.8% . The chain makes up an even greater share of guns sold and traced during the time span: 25.9% .

The outsize share of crime guns alarms those who track these trends.

“Turner's is doing something on a corporate level — or they're not doing something on the corporate level — to prevent this,” said Christian Heyne of the gun safety group Brady United. “They have been a rash on this report for the last four years.”

Other large retailers like Bass Pro Shops and Sportsman’s Warehouse don’t top the list, he said, and see smaller percentages of their sales recovered as crime guns. Statewide, Turner’s locations in Southern California occupied the top 8 spots in the list of traces.

“People are being killed by the guns Turner’s sells, and it demands investigation and action,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn told The Trace about the new data. Hahn called for a probe into the company following the Trace’s initial reporting. Brady later joined Hahn in urging investigation.

Turner’s Outdoorsman attracted national attention this spring, after Cole Tomas Allen, who allegedly attempted to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April, was revealed to have been armed with a shotgun he purchased at a Turner’s in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance.

Turner’s Outdoorsman did not respond to a request for comment for this story. In a statement in June to the right-wing outlet The Daily Caller, a Turner’s executive said the company had a “proven commitment to regulatory compliance” and that data on traces “does not indicate wrongdoing by the retailer.” ATF occasionally inspects gun seller operations and called one Turner’s store recordkeeping “meticulous” in a 2015 report.

The new report shows state inspectors found a number of violations at the Turner’s locations inspected in 2025. Many were for minor issues, but an inspector identified a possible straw purchase violation at the San Bernardino location. The San Bernardino store was connected to more crime guns than any other dealer in the state: 781 from 2023 to 2025.

In the new data, guns sold at Turner’s stores showed up at crime scenes at a rate higher than guns sold at other dealers in the state.

The crime guns traced to the chain also wound up at crime scenes quickly — less than a year after purchase — 36% more often than guns from other dealers. Regulators consider a “time-to-crime” of less than one year an indicator of trafficking.

Guns take several paths to crime scenes. Some are stolen from their owners. Others are bought through straw purchases — the act of illegally buying a gun on behalf of someone else — or trafficked into the underground market. And some are legally purchased by a person who later commits a crime.

No other U.S. state publishes data on the stores connected to crime guns, and Congress has prohibited the ATF from sharing retailer-level data since 2003.

This story first appeared on The LA Local.

Los Angeles is making a new push to turn empty and underused offices into housing.

One developer is holding a large portfolio of somewhat underutilized or vacant office buildings in Koreatown and Westlake, giving them a chance to respond to the city’s housing crisis.

Jamison, Koreatown’s largest commercial landlord, has owned office buildings along the Wilshire Boulevard corridor for decades and two more of its proposed conversions are near Lafayette Park in Westlake.

At least 15 Jamison office buildings in the two neighborhoods have been converted into housing, are under construction or under proposal for conversion into apartments, according to a review of city records and company documents.

Together, the projects could account for 3,652 apartments, though more than 900 of those units are still only proposals.

The landlord is primed for the moment as the city eased its restrictions earlier this year to convert older offices and other commercial buildings into housing.

The expansion of the Adaptive Reuse Ordinance makes it easier to turn old offices, hotels and other commercial buildings into homes. The ordinance previously only allowed conversions within or near downtown, but now those rules apply across the entire city.

City officials estimate this could open up more than 43,000 new homes across the city. 

“These projects represent the kind of innovation we are applying to break away from the status quo that has stunted LA’s housing production and driven up rents for decades,” Mayor Karen Bass said in April. “Work from home and other shifts mean there is a large supply of office space that we can use for housing, but for too long, outdated city regulations stood in the way.”

Jaime Lee, Jamison’s former CEO, said in a March interview with the Los Angeles Times that the firm has stopped pursuing new ground-up construction as financing and other challenges have made it harder to build. 

“We ourselves as a firm have been pencils down on ground-up construction for two years now,” Lee said. “What we’re really, really focused on is how can we make more units out of nothing, which is converting office buildings into multifamily.”

Here’s where those 15 projects stand. A spokesperson for Jamison acknowledged a request for comment, but the company did not immediately provide comment for this story. 

Eight of the projects were completed between 2013 and 2025, and two more recently opened.

Completed projects

Westmore, 3075 Wilshire Blvd.

The Westmore brought 127 apartments and ground-floor retail to a former office building in November 2013.

The nine-story building is on the eastern side of Koreatown, a few blocks east of Vermont Avenue and near the Wilshire/Vermont Metro station.

Westmore is the earliest completed Jamison office conversion identified in Koreatown and Westlake.

Crosby, 3350 Wilshire Blvd.

The 216-unit Crosby occupies a 1957 office tower that once served as Texaco’s West Coast headquarters. Designed by prominent Los Angeles architect Welton Becket, the building sits across from the historic Gaylord Apartments and near Immanuel Presbyterian Church.

The office conversion was completed in 2020 and the developer also built additional apartments on top of the adjoining parking garage, but those are excluded from this count because they weren’t created from office space.

Atlas House, 2500 Wilshire Blvd.

One block west of MacArthur Park, the 13-story Atlas House opened in 2022 with 248 apartments inside what had been a roughly 240,000-square-foot office building. 

About 12,500 square feet of commercial space was kept on the ground floor.

Five other Jamison office conversions are already finished along the Wilshire corridor and total more than 860 apartments. 

Recently opened and in the works

Grayson, 695 S. Vermont Ave.

Grayson is now open and leasing, with 255 apartments inside the former office tower.

The 19-story building dates to 1971 and was originally built as an expansion of Pacific Indemnity Co.’s headquarters, which also occupied the neighboring tower at 3200 Wilshire Blvd.

The conversion kept the existing tower and parking garage.

The building is a short walk from the Wilshire/Vermont Metro station.

Mason, at 3325 Wilshire Blvd. in Koreatown, is now open and leasing. The former 13-story office building was converted into 236 apartments.

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Mason, 3325 Wilshire Blvd.

Mason is also now open and leasing, with 236 apartments inside a former 13-story office building.

The roughly 233,000-square-foot building is at Wilshire and Berendo, on the same block as Immanuel Presbyterian Church. About 15,000 square feet of retail space is on the ground floor, and the parking garage has 450 spaces.

Work on the conversion began in 2024. Jamison called Mason its 10th adaptive-reuse project, and the project was financed in part with $60 million in taxable multifamily housing revenue bonds, according to Urbanize LA. 

Walker, 3550 Wilshire Blvd.

Construction is still underway at Walker, where a 20-story office tower is being turned into 507 apartments, making it the largest Jamison office-to-housing project identified in Koreatown and Westlake.

While the city originally approved 495 apartments, Jamison later added another 12 units on the 20th floor. 

The building is a few blocks east of the Wilshire/Normandie Metro station.

3424 Wilshire Blvd.

Work is underway at 3424 Wilshire Blvd., where the former Los Angeles-area headquarters of IBM is being turned into 260 apartments.

The 13-story building dates to 1958 and has roughly 250,000 square feet of space. IBM originally occupied the property, and it later became the headquarters of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The conversion will turn the former office floors into apartments while keeping about 13,000 square feet of existing retail space. Plans also include racquetball courts, a fitness center, game and karaoke rooms and an outdoor deck, according to Urbanize LA. 

Proposed projects

Jamison has filed plans for three more office conversions, but none could be confirmed as under construction based on city records.

Wilshire Park Place is one of several buildings in Koreatown that Jamison Properties wants to convert into housing.

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Wilshire Park Place, 3700 Wilshire Blvd.

Plans call for turning the 11-story Wilshire Park Place office tower into 370 apartments. 

The building sits behind the large lawn commonly known as Liberty Park, one of the few green spaces in dense, park-poor Koreatown. Liberty Park is a privately owned green space that has been used for community gatherings, including World Cup watch parties. The park and office building were designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2018 after a neighborhood campaign to preserve the site.

According to the proposal, some space inside the existing parking structure would be converted into amenities for residents.

520 S. La Fayette Park Place

Another proposed conversion sits near Lafayette Park, where a six-story office building could become 141 apartments.

Plans filed in 2023 call for turning the roughly 95,000-square-foot building at 520 S. La Fayette Park Place into a mix of studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. The building sits on top of parking for nearly 200 vehicles.

The former Los Angeles Superior Court office building at 600 S. Commonwealth Ave. in Westlake. Jamison Properties has proposed converting the 19-story building into 428 apartments.

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600 S. Commonwealth Ave.

On the other side of Lafayette Park in Westlake, Jamison has proposed a much larger conversion where a 19-story office tower could become 428 apartments.

The nearly 350,000-square-foot building has long housed Los Angeles Superior Court offices. The proposal would turn the office space into 428 apartments, while keeping most of the building’s existing parking and converting some of it into storage and other spaces for residents.

At 428 apartments, it would be Jamison’s second-largest office conversion identified in Koreatown and Westlake, behind the 507-unit Walker project.

Come back here for more updates.