PCCLA
Welcome to Beverly Hills, Aesop!
Pacific Crest Consultants Director Amy Studarus (right) has been leading the PCC team that is helping Atelier X Design design and build a flagship Aesop retail store in Beverly Hills. Amy and Atelier’s Howard Chu and Lukas Peter presented the project recently to the city’s Architectural Commission, which unanimously supported the project. Permitting is underway.
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Different Kind of Beans in Echo Park
We were working with a purveyor of a different kind of bean in Echo Park earlier this year, helping the Seattle-based Biscuit & Bean open its first quick-serve restaurant in LA. If you haven’t been yet, stop reading and go immediately to B&B. You can thank us later.
PCCLA
Riding into Sawtelle with 10 Speed
Blue Bottle isn’t the only specialty coffee retailer that Pacific Crest Consultants has helped with permitting. We recently helped 10 Speed Coffee obtain permits and the final Certificate of Occupancy for its first LA store, which is located in the Sawtelle area of West Los Angeles. We were very familiar with 10 Speed’s first store since it’s […]
PCCLA
PCC & the pop-up coffee omakase
Pacific Crest Consultants has permitted a lot of unique buildings and operations in our 40+ year history in Los Angeles. But we recently permitted a new “first”: A temporary, high-end coffee tasting experience or coffee omakase. The Blue Bottle Studio is the brainchild of Blue Bottle founder James Freeman (pictured above). We were honored when Blue Bottle reached […]
PCCLA
PCCLA Announces Four New Directors
Pacific Crest Consultants is excited to announce the promotion of four PCC consultants to the role of Director. The four new Directors are (alphabetically): Erik Conard (bio) (email)Dina Elkinawy (bio) (email)Chloe Parker (bio) (email)Amy Studarus (bio) (email) The Directors will take leadership roles in their areas of expertise, working with other PCC consultants and project teams to […]
LADBS, PCCLA
Topping Out at Fox Studios’ New York Streets Set
Pacific Crest Consultants was honored to participate in the recent Topping Out ceremony for the renovations of Fox Studios’ New York Street set. PCC was the permit consultant on the project, the latest in a decades-long relations with the West LA studio. The set rose to fame as the backdrop for 1969’s “Hello, Dolly!” starring […]
City News, LADBS, PCCLA
State of LA
Record number of projects, less staff, still mostly inaccessible Los Angeles has seen a record number of permit and entitlement requests even as staffing levels at development-related departments has been reduced and the remaining staff continues to largely be inaccessible, according to an analysis of annual reports and budget requests recently released by city departments. […]
City News, LADBS, PCCLA
AWA+D SB9 Presentation Video
PCC Principal Project Manager Amy Studarus recently presented to the members of the Association for Women in Architecture + Design a highly informative workshop about SB9, the new state law that allows for up to 4 dwelling units on lots zoned for single-family homes. The presentation was one of the most highly attended Zoom seminars […]
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Big Day of Giving
Today is Big Day of Giving, the biggest fundraising day of the year for hundreds of California-based nonprofits. Pacific Crest Consultants has been involved with Sierra Service project for 13+ years and today would be a great day to make a donation to a worthy cause.
PCCLA
Dina Elkinawy Joins PCC
PCC is excited to announce that Dina Elkinawy has joined Pacific Crest Consultants as a Principal Project Manager. Dina comes to us from the LADBS Board of Building & Safety Commissioners office, where she was the supervising engineer. As the manager of the BBSC office, Dina has worked with top officials across the city for […]
