912 HILL STREET HISTORIC REHABILITATION

PROJECT SUMMARY

Client: Markwood
Typology: Office
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Status: In progress

AERO is working with Markwood on a historic rehabilitation project to convert the former six-story May Company parking garage into a mixed-use building with ground-floor retail and restaurant space and a self-storage tenant occupying the basement and upper floors. AERO's design preserves many of the structure's original building details while upgrading the interiors to give the building a new use.

The May Company parking garage was the first parking structure built west of the Mississippi in 1926 and designed to mimic an office building. Unlike modern utilitarian parking structures, this one features many ornate details, including a beautiful cornice, steel windows, detailed ironwork above the ground floor storefront and a facade clad in terracotta.