Potential earthquake fault below planned Handel Architects-designed development in Hollywood raises new concerns

An ongoing dispute between developers Millennium Partners and the regulatory agencies tasked with reviewing a $1 billion Handel Architects-designed mixed-use Hollywood Center development slated for sites surrounding the Capitol Records tower in Hollywood continues. The development, which could bring more than 1,000 apartments and over 30,000 square feet of retail areas to sites surrounding the existing tower, has been dogged by concerns that a previously undiscovered earthquake fault lies near the project site.  Investigations by The Los Angeles Times have yielded new documents from the California Geological Survey that “strongly support the presence of an active ... fault strand entering the eastern Hollywood Center property,” according to a recent report.  Philip Aarons, a founder of Millennium Partners, countered the new findings in comments to The Los Angeles Times, claiming that “It is clear that the data relied upon by the state is significantly inferior in quality to the data...