A love song to LA, CMNTY Culture Campus bridges the history of Hollywood with the future of entertainment, creating a creative home for creative industries. CMNTY Culture Campus will become Hollywood’s most sought-after community for creators in music, new media, gaming, and entertainment tech. The iconic building on Sunset Boulevard will serve as the physical and metaphorical bridge between the entertainment industry’s rich past and its dynamic future.
PROJECT OVERVIEW
With its mix of production, performance, education, and creative office spaces, CMNTY Culture Campus will be a one-of-a-kind project designed for content creators and the entertainment ecosystem that supports them.
Overseen by music industry heavyweights working in concert with an experienced development team, CMNTY Culture Campus will feature:
50,000 square feet of music studio/production space
430,000 square feet of creative office space
4,400 square feet of retail space
10,000 square feet of artist hospitality space
10,000 square feet of education and performance space
500-seat outdoor performance venue
PROPERTY ADDRESS
Addresses
1518-1536 N. Highland Ave & 6751-6767 W Sunset Blvd
PROJECT TEAM
Thomas St. John – Chief Executive Officer
Thomas St John is the founder of Thomas St John Group, the leading international tax, accounting and business management firm for sports and entertainment. He has extensive expertise in international tax, intellectual property right, and cross border mergers and acquisitions. Even more, Thomas provides strategic advice for personal planning and business transactions for high-net-worth individuals, using global industry expertise while providing real clarity and helping plan and manage businesses for the long term. Over the past 14 years, the firm has grown to more than 150 professionals based in Los Angeles, London, Amsterdam, and Stockholm.
Marlena Kaplan, CPA, CFA – Chief Financial Officer
Marlena is a financial executive with a strong track record optimizing processes across financial systems with a collaborative and analytical approach to client and partner engagement. Most recently Marlena served as COO and Global Head of Fund Operations for a multi-family office headquartered in Bahrain and is a former Managing Director with Blackstone’s Hedge Fund Solutions and Finance teams. Marlena has extensive alternative asset management experience in finance, operations, relationship management, and client servicing.
Matt Haberacker, CFA – Chief Administrative Officer
Matt has more than 15 years of experience specializing in operational transformation, risk management, and project management. An accomplished financial services professional, he has a proven track record for successfully managing and executing against a variety of initiatives involving people, processes, and technology. Most recently, Matt served as Vice President at Blackstone where he oversaw the firmwide enterprise risk assurance and advisory programs. Matt’s prior experience includes positions as Product Manager for Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Operational Risk/Special Projects Manager at Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, and Management Consultant at Deloitte.
David Malmuth – Project Executive
The co-founder of I.D.E.A. Partners, David has more than three decades’ experience in real estate development. With an unparalleled knack for conceptualizing and implementing unique solutions that pay homage to the site’s context and history, he has a proven record of producing long-term value for both the community and ownership groups. In executive roles with RCLCO, TrizecHahn Development and The Walt Disney Company, he has been the catalyst for change and mastermind behind projects including Hollywood and Highland, I.D.E.A. District in downtown San Diego, the reinvention of Paseo Colorado in Pasadena, and City Center on the Las Vegas strip for MGM Mirage.
CAMPUS DESIGN TEAM
HKS is a team of more than 1,300 architects, interior designers, urban designers, scientists, artists, anthropologists, and other professionals working together across industries and across the globe to create places that delight, heal and stimulate peak performance. HKS has a dedicated research team that digs deep to discover processes and ideas that improve outcomes for everyone. HKS excels in dealing with the complexity of large projects and they cultivate design as mentors of exceptional well-rounded designers and architects. Their technical foundation, strong track record and excellent resources enable us to deliver visionary design concepts, and hands-on principal-led engagement throughout the process ensures their reliability. Their portfolio includes Zev Yaroslavsky Family Support Center, Jasper Residential Tower, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, W Hollywood Hotel and Residences, Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park and more.
Hood Design Studio, Inc. (HDS), founded in 1992 in Oakland, CA, is a social art and design practice. The studio’s practice is tripartite: art + fabrication, design + landscape, and research + urbanism. This breadth allows them to understand each place in its scale and context, and to respond, not with a standard design, but with an approach adaptive to the particulars and specifics of a space. They strengthen endemic patterns and practices both ecological and cultural, contemporary and historic, particularly those that remain unseen or unrecognized. Urban spaces and their objects act as public sculpture, creating new apertures through which to see the emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies around us.
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