About the Building
The Carlyle is the youngest of the Wilshire Corridor towers and, by the account of one of its own subcontractors, the last high-rise permitted on this stretch of Wilshire near UCLA. KMD Architects designed it, Swinerton Builders constructed it, and Elad Group developed it through an entity Clark Pacific records as Century Wilshire Associates and Pan-Pacific Mechanical lists as El Ad Wilshire LLC. Completion dates conflict: the mechanical contractor gives February 2009, while Clark Pacific and The Real Deal both say 2010, a gap that usually separates structural completion from final occupancy.
The tower stands 24 stories and about 300 feet by KMD's own figures, on a crescent-shaped plan. Clark Pacific supplied roughly 77,000 square feet of architectural precast concrete for the enclosure, including 21,000 square feet of panels clad in Egyptian limestone and cast with reveals and texture to read as stone coursing. A buyer is therefore looking at a heavy sealed wall rather than a glass curtain wall: fewer sealed joints per floor than an all-glass tower, but a precast and stone repair scope that needs specialist trades when it eventually comes due.
Clark Pacific's record gives 78 residences in two- and three-bedroom configurations, which across 24 stories averages close to four homes per floor. The Real Deal reported sizes from 2,772 to 5,716 square feet with up to four and a half bathrooms, and a corridor brokerage puts common plans near 2,778 and above 5,200 square feet. Several listing aggregators show 20 stories and 60 units for this building, which contradicts both the architect and the precast contractor and should not be relied on.
KMD's project description lists business offices, conference rooms, a fitness room, library, lounges, a salon, a media room, a full-service kitchen and a wine cellar, with a courtyard carrying a lap pool, saunas, hot tubs, built-in fireplaces, barbecues and a putting green. Every residence has a keyless private elevator entrance, which is why the floor plates carry almost no internal corridor. The plumbing contractor's project record also notes staff units within the tower, a category the corridor's specific plan counts separately from dwellings.
On position: this is the newest of the six and the only one delivered around the 2008 downturn, with sales continuing until the building sold out in 2016. Against The Californian, three or four years older and a short way west, it offers private elevator entry as standard and a larger average home. Against the 1981-82 towers at 10560 and 10601 it trades a tennis court and a longer amenity list for newer systems and a far later building code cycle.
Amenities & Services
The Residences
Clark Pacific records 78 residences across 24 stories, which averages close to four per floor. Counts this low are a direct consequence of the corridor's 75-foot east-west width cap on new buildings.
KMD's design gives each residence its own keyless private elevator entrance, which removed long internal corridors from the plans. Confirm on the recorded plan whether a given elevator serves one home or two.
The published mix is two and three bedrooms with up to four and a half bathrooms. The Real Deal reported the size range as 2,772 to 5,716 square feet across the building.
Upper-floor homes were sold as individually configured penthouses rather than repeating stacks, so area, terrace size and ceiling height vary between them. Work from the recorded condominium plan, not the marketing sheet.
Windows sit inside a solid precast wall rather than a continuous glass skin, so openings are framed and punched. Twenty-one thousand square feet of the panels are clad in Egyptian limestone.
The mechanical contractor's project record notes staff units in the tower. The corridor's specific plan treats housekeeper units separately from dwelling units, so ask whether any is deeded to the residence you are buying.
Due Diligence
Parking is subterranean and gated with valet. One aggregator reports two to three spaces per residence, plausible for homes this size but not confirmed by the association; read the deeded allocation off the title report.
The association does not publish a pet policy. Aggregator pages say to call for permitted types, which usually signals limits on number, weight or breed. Request the CC&Rs and any pet rule adopted since.
No published cap or minimum term. Under Civil Code section 4741 a California association cannot set a rental cap below 25 percent of units, and may prohibit tenancies of 30 days or less. Ask what this board adopted.
Inclusions are not published by the association. On this corridor they typically cover staffing, water, trash, common-area maintenance and master insurance, with electricity, cable and internet billed to the owner. Get the current budget and recent financials.
A concrete tower with an architectural precast enclosure by Clark Pacific. Permitted in the mid-2000s, it falls well outside Los Angeles Ordinance 183893, whose mandatory non-ductile concrete retrofit program reaches only buildings applied for before 13 January 1977.
Civil Code section 5550 requires a reserve study at least every three years with a visual inspection, reviewed annually by the board. On a precast and stone tower the enclosure, sealants and elevators dominate that schedule.
Concierge, doorman and valet coverage is described as around the clock by every source, and the building contains staff units. Head count, shift pattern and whether engineering is in-house are not published; ask management directly.
No published architectural standard. Expect association review, restrictions on floor penetrations, acoustic underlayment requirements for hard flooring, and no unilateral change to windows or balcony surfaces, which are normally exclusive-use common area.
Everything above is drawn from public records, city permit data and published sources. The association’s statutory disclosure package is the only authoritative answer on dues, rules, reserves, insurance and litigation — Ben will request it and read it with you before you remove contingencies.
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