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The entity that purchased the former KCOP Studio (address at 915 North La Brea is primarily at 7165 Willoughby, facing onto Willoughby, not La Brea) was “Bomel Management.” The party requesting the zone change at the City Planning hearing was “J. David Martin” and the “La Brea Gateway LLC.” It seems “Bomel Management” is now Bomel Companies and “J. David Martin” is now The Martin Group.
To add to the confusion, the developer's architects, VTBS, list the developer
client as "TMG Developers"
on their project
web page.
They seem to go by many names, but suffice it to say
that these are powerful players in the Los Angeles
real estate development game.
You can read about J. David Martin and the other Martin Group partners on their
web site.
Who, exactly, Bomel is remains somewhat a mystery. Articles found on the web mention Robert Reichnitz as a "Bomel
principal." There doesn't seem to be much about
him on the web outside of this project, except for his
Deputy Chairmanship of the American
Friends of Likud (Likud is Israel's center-right
party). Not a lot to go on.
The developers have secured the services of one of the most influential law firms in the world, Latham & Watkins and it’s powerful land-use attorney, George Mihlsten.
Mr. Mihlsten's list of credits reads like a rogue's
gallery of Southern California's most mammoth development
projects of recent history: Staples Center, Disney's
California Adventure, and the
notorious Playa Vista project, among quite a few
others (note that his role in the Central City West
debacle isn't mentioned).
Some cursory web research indicates
that the Bomel Companies are the same people who purchased
the former Continental Graphics property at La Brea
and First and will be developing that site as well (the
drawing on the Bomel home page seems to be of that
site).
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