New Headquarters Coming Soon for HBO

A Network on the Move to Culver City

HBO has made it official. The company will move from its current location in West LA to take up residence in the new $350 million Ivy Station development in Culver City, now under construction and targeted to house 50,000 square feet of restaurants, along with apartments, retail stores and a 148-room hotel. In total, the megaproject will spread 5.2 acres.

240,000 square feet of the new development will be occupied by HBO. 

Culver City is quickly emerging as an important entertainment industry center, having recently lured entertainment divisions of Apple and Amazon, which join the town’s the existing Sony Pictures studio lot (itself the former location of legendary MGM), along with dozens of smaller production companies. 

The plan is for HBO to be the sole office tenant for the development. The network signed a 15-year lease with developers Lowe, AECOM-Canyon Partners, and Rockwood Capital. The five-story structure was designed by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects. HBO will move into their new digs in 2021.

“HBO is an ideal business anchor for Ivy Station, bringing to the property creative professionals that will enjoy access to public transit, host out of town guests at the hotel, and frequent the shops and restaurants that will populate the ground floor town square-style retail space,” Lowe Executive Vice President Tom Wulf said in a news release. 

The Ivy Station development project sits adjacent to the Metro Line Culver City station and Venice Boulevard. It is scheduled to complete construction in 2020.