The NoHo Arts District is a community in North Hollywood , Los Angeles , California , that is home to contemporary theaters, art galleries, cafes, and shops. The community is generally bounded by Hatteras Street to the north, Cahuenga Boulevard to the east, Tujunga Avenue to the west, and Camarillo Street to the south. The area features more than twenty professional theaters, producing new work and classics, diverse art galleries, public art, and professional dance studios. The district also features the largest concentration of music recording venues west of the Mississippi. A Metro Rail station is located here, the North Hollywood station of the B Line and serves as the terminus of the Metro G Line busway.
16-825: The Millennium Dance Complex is a dance studio founded in 1992 and located in the NOHO Arts District of Los Angeles until 2016, when it moved to Studio City. Dance Teacher magazine called Millennium "...one of the top schools in the country." Millennium offers daily drop-in classes in jazz dance , hip-hop , tap , and contemporary dance . Millennium is best known for its numerous dance videos with millions of views on their YouTube channel. Performers such as Britney Spears , Janet Jackson , Justin Timberlake , Usher , Jennifer Lopez , Christina Aguilera , Kenny Ortega , P. Diddy , Beyoncé , Samuel , Monsta X , NCT 127 Ateez and Boy Story have taken classes or had rehearsals at
32-406: A 180-unit, fourteen-story apartment building, was built in 2004 as one of the first large-scale developments in the neighborhood. The historic North Hollywood train depot at Lankershim and Chandler Boulevards was restored in 2014 for $ 3.6 million. It is a Southern Pacific Railroad standard design, a One Story Combination Depot No. 15 or 21. The train depot, dating to 1896, sits on land owned by
48-482: A film to qualify for Academy Awards , charging a flat rate for exhibition while giving the film's producers 100 percent of the box office receipts; they have someone meet every year with the Academy committees in all the categories to ensure their "qualifying run" bookings actually qualify. They even help film-makers book their films outside of their own theaters if a committee requires that. The Laemmle Theatres are
64-575: A result of the construction of Metro Stations for the B Line and the G Line , two lines that have made the neighborhood into a regional hub for the San Fernando Valley . Medium- and high-density developments are being built around the Metro Station, making the Arts District a center of citywide development, with the intent of creating a walkable urban village . North Hollywood's landscape (and
80-837: The Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1938. There are seven locations: Claremont 5 in Claremont , Glendale 5 in Glendale , Monica Film Center in Santa Monica , Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles , Town Center 5 in Encino , NoHo 7 in North Hollywood , and Newhall 7 in Newhall . The Laemmle Grande 4-Plex on South Figueroa Street closed October 25, 2009 as L.A. Live 's Regal Cinema complex
96-785: The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority , across from the Metro B Line subway station and next to the terminus of the G Line bus line. Currently the NoHo Arts District, in conjunction with the Community Redevelopment Agency-Los Angeles, is working on beautification efforts to make the area more appealing to businesses. The current focus is primarily on revamping store fronts on Lankershim Boulevard and Magnolia Boulevard with Burbank Boulevard to follow. In
112-520: The Art's District as a result) has been transformed in recent years, with condominium towers (including a fifteen-story building on Lankershim Boulevard being built in the midst of older one-story bungalows and small apartment complexes. The theater district includes two new large venues that expand upon existing theaters, the redesigned NoHo Arts Center (formerly the American Renegade Theatre) and
128-754: The Glendale location's reopening on May 21, 2021, Laemmle Theatres resumed operating all the locations that had been open in 2019 prior to the closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic . The Playhouse 7 in Pasadena ceased operations as a Laemmle location at the end of June 2022. During the 21st century, the Laemmle venues have come to be known as the "Secret Path to Oscar Qualifying" since they have been repeatedly used by independent films , short films , and documentaries for that purpose. Laemmle provides services designed to enable
144-667: The Los Angeles Metro board. 34°10′20″N 118°22′41″W / 34.17222°N 118.37806°W / 34.17222; -118.37806 Laemmle Theatres Laemmle Theatres ( / ˈ l ɛ m l i / LEM -lee ) is a group of family-run arthouse movie theaters in the Los Angeles area . It was established in 1938 and is owned and operated by Robert Laemmle and his son Greg Laemmle. Robert Laemmle's father Max and uncle Kurt, cousins of Universal Pictures founder Carl Laemmle , bought their first movie theater in
160-546: The Universal City/North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce established a theater and arts district in 1992 with support from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. They chose "NoHo", a play off the well-known SoHo Arts District neighborhood of New York City. The NoHo Arts District, in conjunction with greater North Hollywood , is being transformed into a regional center, in large part as
176-408: The future, North Hollywood plans a $ 1 billion mixed-use development at Lankershim and Chandler, surrounding the Metro B and G line terminals. The project would re-develop 15.6 acres (63,000 m ) with 600,000 square feet (56,000 m ) of commercial space and nearly 1500 residential units in three high-rise towers. The project was awarded to Trammell Crow Company and High Street Residential by
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#1732902193261192-443: The historical dance building which it occupied. Millennium's faculty is composed of today’s top working choreographers including Marty Kudelka , David Moore , Matt Steffanina , Tricia Miranda , Brian Friedman , Kyle Hanagami and many more. 34°09′48″N 118°22′26″W / 34.163375°N 118.373955°W / 34.163375; -118.373955 NoHo Arts District, Los Angeles Business and theater owners in
208-401: The redesigned El Portal Theatre . They add to the existing 31 theaters located in and around the NoHo Arts District. NoHo Commons, developed by J.H. Snyder Company, is located near the NoHo Arts District's commercial core and subway station. The $ 100-million, 292-unit loft apartment project by Snyder was the first segment to be completed of NoHo Commons, part of a "transit village" taking form at
224-544: The studio. In 1988, Millennium's directors, AnnMarie Hudson and Robert Baker, met in Frank Hatchett's jazz-funk class on Broadway in Manhattan , New York City. AnnMarie had sold her small New Jersey dance school and relocated to New York. Her first job was in management at the newly formed Broadway Dance Center , working for its founder, Richard Elner. She started Millennium under the name Moro Landis Studios because of
240-478: The terminus of the Metro B Line subway and the G Line busway. The NoHo Commons construction and development consisted of three phases, completing with the construction of a Laemmle Theatre . Phase III also consisted of the construction of an eight-story office on the corner of Lankershim Boulevard and Weddington in 2009. The building's primary tenant is currently the Art Institute of California -Hollywood. NoHo 14,
256-641: Was set to open. Construction of the Newhall theater was completed in 2020, but its opening was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It opened on April 9, 2021. In December 2011, the Glendale City Council and Redevelopment Agency approved a $ 12.8 million plan to develop a loft with 42 residential units, a 5-screen Laemmle Theaters, and a Panda Inn restaurant. Construction of the residential building complex began in mid-2015, and it opened in August 2018. With
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