Regency Centers looks to get the long-delayed project back on track
Culver City Public Market rendering
The developer behind the long-delayed Culver Public Market is looking to get things back on track, according to a presentation set to be given at a July 18 public meeting in Culver City.
Work on the 26,800-square-foot food hall and public market has been stalled since March 2020, when developer Regency Centers halted work on the project as the global pandemic ground business to a halt. Since then, the project site - properties at the northeast and northwest corners of Washington Boulevard and Centinela Avenue - have remained vacant and encircled by k-rail.
Rather than abandoning the project altogether, Regency Centers is now looking to once again move forward - albeit with a commercial footprint to account for changing market conditions. The revised plan would shave approximately 13,300 square feet of retail space from the proposed development including the entire market hall component. That would leave roughly half the space that was originally planned, all dedicated to food retail and restaurant uses. Plans also call for 9,600 square feet of outdoor dining areas and plazas.
Site plan for revised Culver Public MarketRegency Centers
Likewise, plans still call for the construction of a two-story, 122-car city parking struture at the larger west site. A smaller surface parking lot would be placed behind the new buildings on the east site.
The design for the scaled back proposal is described as including the same materials as the prior iteration of the project, which would give it a "simple, rustic aesthetic," that complements surrounding properties.
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