The loudest block in West Hollywood this summer isn't a rooftop. It's the stretch of Melrose Avenue in front of the Pacific Design Center, where the sidewalk on the south side has been sealed off to pedestrians for months as crews rebuild the Design District from the curb up. That construction is the single most useful piece of information a resident can hold right now, because it explains where the new openings are landing and why. Operators aren't picking La Peer Drive and Sunset Boulevard by accident. They're picking the streets that will still have a sidewalk in September.
If you live here, the shape of the season follows from that one fact.
La Peer Is Doing the Heavy Lifting
The most consequential opening of the spring landed at 639 N. La Peer Drive, one block off the Melrose closure.
