The Los Angeles City Planning Commission on Wednesday signed off on a new production campus at 3701 W. Stocker Street in Baldwin Hills, clearing the way for a sizable entertainment hub just off Crenshaw Boulevard. The project, called Stocker Street Creative, would remake a roughly five‑acre site into six buildings with soundstages, offices, restaurants and a multi‑level parking structure. Plans peg the complex at roughly 256,768 square feet, topping out at about seven stories and 110 feet tall.
Commission Sign‑Off And Project Scale
The City Planning Commission approval sets the basic framework for the development. A staff report describes a 256,768‑square‑foot campus with parking for 344 vehicles and a 3,000‑square‑foot community room, according to Urbanize LA. The sign‑off covers six new buildings rising as high as seven stories and roughly 110 feet, wrapped around a landscaped central plaza planned at the heart of the site. The campus is slated to include production support facilities, office space and ground‑floor restaurants aimed at keeping some energy on the street.
Breakdown Of The Campus
Environmental review documents lay out the finer‑grained breakdown of the project. Building A is shown as a three‑story, 34,700‑square‑foot structure combining office space with a food hall, while Building B is planned as a six‑story, roughly 133,200‑square‑foot building that would house production support, leasable office space and a rooftop restaurant, according to The Real Deal. Other buildings on the site would contain roughly 30,000 and 19,200 square feet of soundstages, plus back‑of‑house and mill shop space. The plan also calls for a roughly 31,000‑square‑foot open plaza and a parking structure sized for several hundred vehicles.
Who Is Behind It
Chicago‑area developer 4S Bay Partners LLC is listed as the project sponsor, and records show the firm paid about $24 million for the property in 2021, per Commercial Observer. Los Angeles architecture firm JGM is credited as the project's designer (JGM), and 4S Bay has billed the development as a community‑focused creative campus in its promotional materials (4S Bay Partners). The team’s plans highlight public‑facing ground‑floor restaurants, a central plaza and a community room intended for neighborhood uses.
Timeline And Neighborhood Context
An environmental study released during the review process estimates construction would last about 35 months, with a potential start as early as July 2026 and completion by May 2029, according to The Real Deal. Stocker Street Creative is one of several large projects now reshaping the area around the K Line, joining Harridge Development Group’s plan for more than 900 homes at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza and Hudson Pacific Properties’ Marlton Square office proposal, as reported by Urbanize LA.
