A 12-story office complex planned near Centinela Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard won approval this week despite strong opposition from Westchester residents and neighboring community groups, the Daily Breeze reprots.
A divided Culver City Council advanced the project late Tuesday during the second half of a hearing that opened to a spillover crowd.
The lame duck council, which will welcome three newcomers in less than two weeks, recessed its Monday meeting at 3 a.m., only to debate the Entrada office tower for several more hours Tuesday night.
In the end, with just a handful of weary residents in the audience, officials cast a key 3-2 vote approving a design plan for a 176-foot-tall building topped with a 5- to 13-foot rooftop barrier. Councilman Gary Silbiger and Mayor Alan Corlin voted no.
The mayor had floated a proposal for a 120-foot-tall structure – roughly the size of the Radisson hotel next door – but couldn’t muster support.
Initially, Centinela Development Partners proposed a 342,000-square-foot Entrada building rising to 220 feet at its highest peak. By shaving off a level, the company also cut down the square footage slightly, to about 327,000.
The complex will sit near the Promenade at Howard Hughes Center and Westfield Fox Hills Mall, in plain sight of people living atop the Westchester Bluffs.
Because of the building’s size and location just inside Culver City’s southwestern boundary with Los Angeles, Entrada set off a turf war of sorts.
