Hollywood’s latest low-rise office play is quietly filling in at 1200 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, where a campus branded Echelon is rising behind the construction fences. Crews are stacking four-story, bungalow-style buildings around a landscaped central courtyard and a chain of rooftop decks, reshaping a parcel just a block northwest of Santa Monica and Vine. The new complex replaces an older two-story building and a recreation field and is being marketed as a mix of creative office, production, and post-production space tailored to the neighborhood.
What the campus will include
Planning documents and city records show the project is set to bring in roughly 75,000 square feet of office space, about 156 parking stalls, and around 500 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, according to Urbanize LA. The plan combines two new four-story buildings with roughly 20,000 square feet kept in an existing structure that is scheduled for a remodel. The developer’s own project page lists a larger figure, roughly 101,000 rentable square feet, indicating the campus program also layers in production, post-production, and support areas beyond standard office floors.
Design team and materials
Portland-based West of West is credited as the project’s designer, with House & Robertson on board as executive architect and KSA handling landscape architecture, per Hollywood Partnership. Renderings present an exterior mix of plaster, cement, wood panels and tile wrapped around a central courtyard lined with screening rooms and edit suites. The design leans into multistory bungalow-style suites connected by outdoor terraces, aiming to give tenants production-friendly layouts along with ample outdoor amenity space.
Construction and timeline
Construction is reported to be in full swing roughly a year and a half after work first kicked off, according to Urbanize LA, and the project is listed as an active build on contractor rosters. General contractor KPRS includes Echelon at 1200 Cahuenga in its project directory. The developer’s materials point to a delivery window running from late 2025 into the first quarter of 2026, suggesting the site is transitioning from structural work into exterior finishes and tenant systems.
Where it fits in Hollywood's boom
The Cahuenga build is one of several Echelon-branded campuses BARDAS has been rolling out across Hollywood as part of a broader push for mid-sized creative and production space, a trend highlighted by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Nearby projects have already landed corporate and creative tenants. PUMA, for example, took studio and office space at another Bardas campus on Fountain Avenue, as reported by CommercialCafe. Together, the cluster shows how developers are carving up smaller Hollywood parcels to deliver amenity-heavy office products aimed at media, marketing and creative companies.
What to watch next
Future leasing news and tenant reveals will show whether Echelon at 1200 Cahuenga slides neatly into Hollywood’s growing creative hub the way its backers intend. For now, the project adds one more option for production and post-production outfits that want smaller, outdoor-oriented campuses close to the industry’s core.
