North Hollywood: Transit hub

The transit-oriented development boom continues with a $1 billion project in North Hollywood, reports The Times' Rong-Gong Lin II:

The NoHo Art Wave, which will be built on mostly vacant land or parking lots, will eclipse even the Hollywood & Highland shopping complex and underscores the efforts of transit officials to turn the once-declining North Hollywood business district into a major transit hub. The development will feature more than 1.7 million square feet of development on 15.6 acres, which would be the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's largest transit-oriented development. The MTA has made a priority of developing land the agency owns at its rail and bus stations. Officials believe that locating shopping and housing next to bus and rail lines will encourage people to get out of their cars and use mass transit. But some critics have questioned whether such projects actually result in fewer car trips. Similar developments -- but on a smaller scale -- have been rising at MTA subway stations along Wilshire Boulevard and Hollywood Boulevard as well. The MTA is continuing to look at developing land at other Red Line and Orange Line stations, as well as on the Gold Line extension now being built to East Los Angeles.

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Sounds great.

No one can say there isn't actually transit at this transit oriented development.

When the Red Line is extended to the Burbank Airport it will be even better.