City Grill

Bob Hale
Managing Principal/ Partner
Rios Clementi Hale Studios

“Los Angeles is in the midst of a building boom beyond anything seen here since the 1980s, driven by the severe lack of housing and the redevelopment of Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles,” Hale says. “The past year has seen a significant number of iconic projects move forward that were either in the drawer for several years or hung up in entitlement battles.” The complex environmental review process and “not in my backyard” mentality “make getting a good project through to implementation extremely difficult, expensive and risky,” he says.