en.Wedoany.com Reported - The draft plan for the new research park project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was recently unveiled. Prepared by T&B Planning, the draft details the adaptive reuse project's impact on the surrounding environment and the achievement of its sustainable development goals.
UCLA first acquired the Westside Pavilion shopping mall in Los Angeles in 2024, with Flad serving as the park architect and OJB responsible for landscape design. Dubbed "The Hive" by the university, the project plans to transform the shopping mall into a research center for immunology and quantum engineering.
The park consists of two buildings, east and west, divided by Westwood Boulevard, connected by a pedestrian walkway. Most of the renovation work involves interior retrofitting of seismic infrastructure, including upgrading mechanical systems, improving steel frame joints, and welding beam-column connections. The underground parking garage will be repurposed into usable floor space.
The renovation plans for the park's existing interior spaces are generally limited. The west building will undergo facade re-cladding and glass replacement. Sustainability efforts aim to achieve LEED BD+C Gold certification. Rooftop parking structures on both the east and west buildings of the research park will be removed to make way for solar panels, potentially for future use as landscaped leisure areas. They also plan to install rainwater harvesting tanks for each building. Combined with the existing 131,600-gallon storage tank in the east building, the collected rainwater will be used for irrigating on-site gardens and landscaping.
Among the UCLA-affiliated entities planned to move into the park, the California Institute for Immunology & Immunotherapy (CIII) and the UCLA Quantum Innovation Hub (QIH) have been mentioned, with space also allocated for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) and non-UCLA partners.
The project to renovate the entire 700,000-square-foot shopping mall is planned in five phases over the next nine years. The final project component will be constructed between 2031 and 2034, with completion in 2035. The university stated in a December press release last year that some facilities could be "eye-wateringly expensive." During the project's conceptual phase, the State of California committed $500 million, and at least $150 million has recently been raised through donations.
UCLA students, faculty, and staff can look forward to the new lobby in the research park's east building opening by the end of 2027, with the UCLA Quantum Innovation Hub as the first tenant.
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