The filmmaker purchased the three-level unit from actor Vincent Gallo in 2012 for $2.6 million.
Taiwanese-born American filmmaker Justin Lin has listed a multilevel live-work loft atop a transformed manufacturing unit advanced in downtown Los Angeles with an asking value of $7 million.
The celebrated movie director, who has helmed a handful of the blockbuster Quick & Livid movies, together with 2021’s F9, which grossed nearly three quarters of a billion bucks in worldwide field workplace, in addition to the following two upcoming installments of the seemingly limitless franchise, hopes to turns a powerful revenue on the cavernous loft that he scooped up in 2012 for $2.6 million from structure savvy actor, artist and provocateur Vincent Gallo. So the story goes, Gallo by no means lived within the loft, at the least not full time, and at one level he leased it to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
Lin, who grew up in Orange County’s Buena Park however for at the least the final decade has made his major residence in Pasadena, the place he owns a pair residential properties, has used the downtown penthouse over the previous couple of years because the headquarters of his movie manufacturing firm, Excellent Storm Leisure. It has been staged for the promoting course of by Vesta House.
Initially constructed in 1925 by E.J. Eckel because the West Coast headquarters of Nabisco, the Arts District advanced, now knowns because the Biscuit Firm Lofts, was transformed to reside/work areas in 2007, the identical yr it was declared a Historic Cultural Monument. The constructing gives residents around-the-clock concierge providers, a just lately reworked health space, a swimming pool and, maybe better of all, Mills Act protection, which reduces property taxes.
Spanning the Seventh-Ninth flooring, the inside measures about 4,300 sq. toes, with one other 3,600 sq. toes of personal out of doors areas. Full with a personal elevator that providers all three flooring, the one-of-a-kind penthouse has all of the hallmarks of a traditional loft conversion: sandblasted uncovered brick partitions, honey-toned maple floorboards, industrial-sized mullioned sash home windows, and hovering ceilings laced with uncovered ductwork. Simply off the primary residing/eating area, with its two-plus-story ceiling and Escher-sque staircases, the kitchen continues the loft’s utilitarian simplicity with stainless-steel cabinetry.
There are two bedrooms and a pair of.5 baths sprinkled all through the condominium, although neither of the bedrooms qualifies as wherever close to typical. A floor-to-ceiling curtain is all that separates the lofted primary bed room from the residing/eating area under, and the second bed room, tucked away on the bottom degree, doesn't embrace a door for privateness.
For these looking for a quintessential SoCal indoor-outdoor way of life, there’s an enormous terrace off the residing/eating room and kitchen, a smaller one off the primary bed room, and a sunbaked roof terrace that gives wrap-around metropolis, mountain and, on a transparent day, ocean views.
The penthouse loft is listed with Lin’s brother Jimmy Lin, of One True Mortgage, together with Justin Alexander and Tab Howard of The Alexander Group at Compass.
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