Gruen Associates is the design lead for aesthetic components, urban design, architecture and landscape architecture for this new eight and one half mile $640 million Light Rail Transit project. Gruen has an integral part in implementing the vision for a true Transit Parkway for Downtown to Culver City. The proposed alignment is connecting some of the densest residential neighborhoods of Los Angeles with a variety of cultural and historic sites, as well as the business district of Downtown Los Angeles. Gruen is responsible for the design of eight new light rail stations.

PDC III, the "Red Building," is the third project in the AIA award winning Pacific Design Center complex by the team of Cesar Pelli and Gruen Associates. The 400,000 sq. ft. office building and 1200 stall parking structure is a pair of office towers sitting on a combined parking podium. Amongst the design challenges, the parking levels provide access to an otherwise landlocked adjacent MTA bus staging area.

Gruen Associates is the urban designer, architect, landscape architect and land use planner on the consultant team developing urban design and landscape concepts for the Canoga Transportation Corridor, a former railroad right-of-way in the San Fernando Valley. This four-mile corridor will connect transit service from the current terminus of the MOL at the existing Canoga Station to the Chatsworth Metrolink Station. Gruen prepared the project description, land use and visual sections of the Environmental Impact Report as well as station, landscape, pedestrian and bicycle concepts. For the Preliminary Engineering phase, Gruen was responsible for the aesthetics of the proposed bridge over Lassen Street, and preparing station site plans, improvements for the architecture of the MOL stations and landscape architecture design.

Phase II of this new 250,000 square-foot mixed use project in currently nearing completion. When fully built out, this project in the heart of the community of Tarzana will consist of a 150,000 square-foot lifestyle center with retail, restaurants, a supermarket, and 100,000 square feet of residential uses made up of 73 townhouses and loft condominium units. The eclectic mix of tenants opening onto beautifully landscaped open spaces creates a sense of place for the community and provides for an exciting and diverse urban experience.

New facilities for this rapidly expanding congregation, located near downtown Los Angeles, includes a main sanctuary seating approximately 1,500, four hundred of which are in a balcony, a fellowship hall able to seat up to 600 in a banquet configuration, a nursery school for approximately 50 children, a gymnasium and administrative facilities. The sanctuary is designed to be recognizable as a church both inside and out, but executed in a contemporary manner. The new complex also incorporates an existing building to be renovated into the church school and additional administrative facilities. Parking for approximately 330 vehicles is located on two levels below the main sanctuary level. This urban church complex is composed around a welcoming forecourt providing relief and transition from the church’s dense urban environment.

Gruen Associates is the Architect for the new Academic Resource Center, housing a library, visual arts classrooms, and administrative offices, at the prestigious Marlborough School in Los Angeles. This project was conceived to replace the old library building with a state of the art library, integrating their resource center with their technology curriculum as well as providing much needed studio and gallery space for their growing visual arts program. As a part of the three-phase master plan, Gruen Associates added two levels of underground parking providing an additional 66 spaces which alleviates the School’s parking problem. In addition to the 92,650 square feet of new building, Gruen Associates renovated two other classroom buildings on the campus, assisted with entitlement activities, assisted in value-engineering, designed their temporary facilities, as well as assisted the General Contractor in phasing the construction activities to coincide with on-going school activities. This project is designed to qualify for LEED certification.