Los Angeles’ Black media community congregated on Saturday, Feb. 22 for a presentation about a new entertainment production facility to be located at 3701 West Stocker Blvd.
Titled the Stocker Street Creative Community Connection Event, it will provide economic sustenance to an area already renowned as a cultural hub for the greatest media center on the globe. Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove of the 37th Congressional District gave a spirited address, showcasing the charisma and vision that made her a guiding light in improving the lot of the constituency she embodies. Guests of the event consisted of figures who live, work, or share close connections to the neighborhood being served.
They included Brenda Curry, of Curtom-Dunsmuir construction, real estate developer Simeon R. Stewart II of Stewart Manhattan, Inc., filmmaker and entrepreneur Jessica Sarowitz, and Stanley Washington, president and CEO of Pantheon Business Consulting.
This undertaking was initiated by the Chicago-based firm of 4S Bay Partners, who purchased a parcel of land through the representation of James Daughrity in 2021. Presently the construction site encompasses a five-acre site.
The project envisioned will feature a six-story structure facing Stocker which will contain offices, and 44,400 square feet of production support space, topped off by a 9,000-square-foot rooftop restaurant and garden offering commanding views of the mountain range that rims the Los Angeles Basin. In attendance was restaurateur extraordinaire Brad Johnson, whose local resume includes the Post & Beam restaurant and the Roxbury nightclub. He will serve as a consultant.
Continuing down on Don Felipe Drive will be a building containing 30,000-square-foot sound-stages, and other structures for mill shops and all the amenities needed for the cutting edge technologies vital for millennium entertainment. In addition space will be provided for community engagement in keeping with the builder’s commitment for social conscience.
Sarowitz is the Afro-Latina CEO of 4S Bay who brings her background as an immigrant along with economic savvy and social commitment to this current undertaking.
Stewart, a product of Locke High and USC, has vast experience in construction management and renovation. A decades long veteran of the financial services industry, Washington is a Morehouse College alumnus who carries on the legacy of his mother the late Dr. Geraldine R. Washington PHD—former president fo the LA NAACP.
For more information about this groundbreaking project, visit www.stockerstreetcreative.com.