Neighborhood Council Approves Plush, Oversized Hotel for Brooks Avenue
and Abbot Kinney
Ten months after it was first approved by the
Council’s Land Use Committee, the Board of the Venice Neighborhood Council
approved a 57-room, 4-story luxury hotel for 901 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
Dubbed the “Ray” by the Ambrose
Group of developers, the hotel, within two blocks of the beach, would sport a
roof-top pool and would tower 45 feet over the nearby gateway to Oakwood. The
Venice Specific Plan calls for a maximum height at that location of 35
feet.
Opponents still have a chance to
stop the project when it is submitted to the city planning department.
Meanwhile, another 43-room hotel project a
block away, the Pali House, is still moving ahead.
Posted: Sun - October 1, 2006 at 03:25 PM