Another Sunset Strip development that would combine housing and a hotel under a single roof has received the go-ahead from the City of West Hollywood.
This week, the West Hollywood City Council voted to approve plans from Silver Creek Development which would redevelop a block-long stretch of Sunset Boulevard which is home to the Viper Room, among other buildings. The 11-story building, named 8850 Sunset Boulevard for its address, would include:
a 90-room, five-star hotel;
78 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes (including 16 affordable units);
approximately 28,000 square feet of restaurant, cafe, and bar space;
a 6,748-square-foot replacement space for the Viper Room; and
parking for 232 vehicles.
Arquitectonica is designing 8850 Sunset, which would rise 161 feet in height, culminating in a rooftop activated by open-air dining. Rendering portray a glass-clad, mid-rise structure with a public plaza at street level and central breezeway cutting through the building toward a park-like space off of Sunset Boulevard. Relm is serving as the project's landscape architect.
An environmental study conducted for the project has previously estimated that construction will occur over an approximately three-year period.
The 8850 Sunset development, first announced 2018 as a larger 15-story building, has gone through multiple iterations over the past six years. Though all versions of the project have combined housing and a hotel within a single structure, the original design from Morphosis has called for a large chasm to be cut into the center of the building.
8850 Sunset follows a series of similar hotel-condominium projects on the Sunset Strip, including the Edition Hotel & Residences and the Pendry Hotel & Residences, and new projects in the works at 8240 and 9034 Sunset Boulevard.