Wilshire/La Cienega station
Wilshire/La Cienega is an under-construction heavy-rail subway station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is currently in the design/construction phase of the Purple Line Extension project, in Beverly Hills, California. It is slated to open in early 2023.[1][2][3]
Location | 8485 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, California 90211 | ||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°3′55″N 118°22′33″W | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Metro | ||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 center platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Parking | TBD | ||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | TBD | ||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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Status | under construction | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 2023 (planned) | ||||||||||||||
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Located at the NE-corner of Wilshire Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, the new subway station will be one-story high, and provide access to the trains below via escalators, elevators, and stairs. Underground, the station will include an upper level 'concourse' for ticketing, and at the level of the tracks a passenger platform for boarding and egress.[4][5]
The site formerly housed a Citibank, demolished circa 2016 to provide a 'temporary' staging yard. Another staging yard is at the NW-corner of Wilshire and Gale Drive, where Luther Burbank Savings had been located. The yards support a multi-year construction project: to extend the subway line, and to build Wilshire/La Cienega station.[6]
Adjoining the NE-corner station will be the following.
- On the NW corner, Cedars-Sinai offices and a Wells Fargo branch.
- On the SW corner, a high-rise office building with a Chase branch.[7]
- On the SE corner, a ten-story, oval-footprint office building, with a large equestrian statue of John Wayne.[8][9] Once the headquarters of Great Western Savings, in a 1997 merger GW was acquired by the now-defunct Washington Mutual Bank.[10] WaMu's branch, held up in 2003,[11] has since been closed.[12] The building itself was sold by Larry Flynt to Douglas Emmett in 2013.[13] Its third floor houses the Brazilian Consulate.[14]
The Purple Line's[15] eastern terminus is located at Union Station, its planned western terminus at Wilshire near Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica.[16] Saban Theatre to the east and the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre by Laemmle to the west will be short walks away on Wilshire from the new station. Restaurant Row stretches north along La Cienega.[17][18]
Notes
- Brittany Boxley (2012).
- Noel T. Braymer (2012).
- Eric Brightwell (2012).
- Wilshire/La Cienega Station.
- Thomas Curwen (2017).
- Wilshire/La Cienega Station.
- Cf., Eric Brightwell (2012).
- Henry Kamm (1984).
- Gary Wayne (2018).
- Barry Stavro (1997).
- Krikorian and Haines (2003).
- David Ellis (2008).
- Eric Hayden (2013).
- Brazilian Consulate.
- Also called the D Line.
- Cf., Purple Line Extension.
- Eric Brightwell (2012).
- Wilshire/La Cienega Station.
Sources
- Brittany Boxley, “Plans Announced to Extend the Purple Line”. © USC Annenberg, 2012. News Program. Annenberg TV News. 13 Nov 2012.
- Noel T. Braymer, “LA Busy Building over 35 Miles of New Rail Transit over the Next 10 Years.”. © Rail Passenger Association of California & Nevada, 2012. Newsletter. RailPAC. 8 Dec 2012.
- Eric Brightwell, “Exploring the Planned Course of the Metro Purple Line Extension”. © KCETLink, 2012. News Program. KCET. 28 Aug 2012. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Thomas Curwen, "Climb inside the massive tunnel 60 feet below downtown L.A.", in the Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2017. Accessed 2018-12-9.
- David Ellis, "JPMorgan buys WaMu. In the biggest bank failure in history, JPMorgan Chase will acquire massive branch network and troubled assets from Washington Mutual for $1.9 Billion", at CNN Money, Sept. 26, 2008. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Erik Hayden, "Larry Flynt sells Hustler HQ for $89 Million", in The Hollywood Reporter, May 15, 2013. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Henry Kamm, "John Wayne Rides Again", in The New York Times, June 24, 1984. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Greg Krikorian and Errin Haines, "1 Killed, 1 Flees in Bank Shoot-out". © in the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 15, 2003.
- Barry Stavro, "Shareholders approve Great Western merger", in the Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1997. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Gary Wayne, "The John Wayne Statues", at Seeing Stars in Hollywood website, 2018. Accessed 2018-11-11.
- Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles. Accessed 2018-11-15.
- Purple Line Extension, "The long awaited Metro Purple Line Subway Extension is now under construction", 'Overview' at Metro.
- "Wilshire/La Cienega Station", at Purple Line Extension Project (Summer 2016).