Idolator
A poster on the Velvet Rope found this piece of news in the latest e-newsletter from the mayor of West Hollywood:
8801 Sunset Blvd (Tower Records Site) - Request demolition of existing building, construction of new 52,000 square-foot commercial structure - 3 stories commercial, 3 stories above grade parking, 1 story below grade parking. Gym use (CUP), creative video sign (CSP), billboard permit.
No word on when the request goes up for approval, but given that the store won't be coming back anytime soon, at least someone's doing something with the space, and not just turning it into a rotating outpost for holiday-themed satellites of other chains. Or condos.
The fate of Tower Sunset [Velvet Rope]
[Photo: AP]
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...not just turning it into a rotating outpost for holiday-themed satellites of other chains
I never hang out in NoHo anymore now that Tower 4th/Bwy is gone; but when we take a cab down Broadway and pass through that part of the nabe, I can't tell you how depressing it is to see the Toys 'R' Us signs in the windows.
Twenty years. Twenty years of my life I spent hanging out in that Tower. It was, like, the entirety of my post-adolescence (and some pre- too).
@dennisobell: Yeah, I went to the Halloween store that's now in the former Tower space on Lafayette last week (I was trying to look for a last-ditch costume, and all I could find was of the "slutty [blank]" variety, sigh) and it was really, really strange. But the Toys 'R' Us is definitely weirder. At least it'll be gone by January?
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