L.A

Growing up in a small town outside of Cleveland, Tyler Piña was fascinated by Los Angeles and the glamour of Hollywood. “My dad grew up out here, and it’s where…

For the second time in two years, Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood home has been saved from destruction. Last summer, the Spanish Colonial-style hacienda was saved by the L.A. City Council, which…

An unlikely corner of one of L.A.’s once-famous/now-dead malls is open for business again this week as residents move into luxury apartments on the spot that used to be a…

Early last year, vandals breached fencing, climbed dozens of flights of stairs and painted bold, colorful graffiti on the exterior of three unfinished high-rises that make up the abandoned Oceanwide…

Los Angeles needs more affordable housing. When presented with the problem in the past, builders and developers were able to turn lima bean fields and orange groves into row after…

The first thing you notice about the Monterey Park home of artist Yi Kai and his wife, Jian Zheng, is the swimming pool. Like David Hockney’s pool paintings, which celebrate…

A residential skyscraper has been approved for construction in the South Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, though it’s unclear how soon construction will begin. The City Council last week…

Sports and music fans, flocking to a once-questionable corner of downtown, were the springboard for an L.A.-born multibillion-dollar empire of venues and events for screaming enthusiasts around the globe. AEG,…

In L.A.’s jam-packed real estate market, an acre is huge. Five acres is a dream. But 100-plus acres is historic. The Robert Taylor Ranch, a massive equestrian estate sprawled in…

Almost since the first suburbs were built in Los Angeles, there have been worries that adding density would “Manhattanize” L.A., rendering it so crowded with new vertical development as to…