City of Los Angeles (mostly) · West Hollywood
East Melrose
Melrose Ave street numbers 7100–8379: La Brea area west to N Orlando Ave. Mostly City of LA; the blocks just east of Orlando are in West Hollywood.
Openings vs closings · Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026
opened closed · by month; first and last months are partial
⚠ 64 of the 96 closings share one end date (2026-10-13), 64 with no industry code — likely an administrative batch closure of accounts, not storefronts closing that day. Excluding it: 52 opened vs 32 closed, net +20 (62% openings) → healthy. Because the two readings disagree, the corridor is shown amber.
- Opening = LA Office of Finance business registrations with a location start date in the period (City of LA business tax records)
- Closing = LA Office of Finance registrations with a location end date in the period (City of LA business tax records)
- Counts City of LA registrations only; the few West Hollywood blocks just east of Orlando are not covered yet.
- A registration start/end is not necessarily a storefront opening/closing: it includes offices, home-based and non-retail accounts, and dates are self-reported (sometimes back- or future-dated; future dates are excluded).
- 2 future-dated record(s) excluded.
Color rule: green if openings ≥55% of openings+closings, red if ≤45%, amber in between; needs ≥10 dated records, until then the corridor shows “collecting data”.
Hand-curated · every item sourced
Notable openings, closings & pop-ups
Curated from named public sources and verified broker tips. Pop-up / temporary items are shown for context only and are never counted in the openings-vs-closings trend above; curated items are not part of the trend calculation at all.
Coming soon
- Coming soonLos Angeles Apparel8175 Melrose Ave, Los AngelesBrand page still says Coming Soon; broker says it opens this weekend.Source: Los Angeles Apparel — Melrose store page · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Los Angeles Apparel — Melrose page (still 'Coming Soon')
- Coming soonFred Segal by Aritzia8100 Melrose Ave, Los AngelesAritzia acquired Fred Segal (Feb 2026) and leased the 29,000 sq ft original flagship; restoration planned over several years; no opening date announced.Source: WWD — Aritzia acquires Fred Segal, leases 8100 Melrose (Feb 19, 2026) · Also: BoF — Aritzia buys Fred Segal IP, plans Melrose flagship · Also: NYT — Fred Segal has a new owner (Feb 21, 2026) · Also: WEHOonline — no reopening date yet · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via WEHOonline — no reopening date
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Adding West Hollywood data soon
East Melrose (7100–8379) is mostly City of LA, so City of LA business registrations, LADBS permits and CA ABC liquor licenses all apply. The few blocks just east of N Orlando Ave are in West Hollywood; their license and permit data is being added.
Submarket rent & vacancy — coming soon
Published brokerage reports we reviewed either do not break out this corridor or derive figures from CoStar, which we do not republish. We'll quote figures only from a broker's own public research with a direct link. Reports to check:
Traffic counts — coming soon
LADOT's public Traffic Counts Summary (last updated 2017) has 9 Melrose rows but none in the 7100–9000 corridor. Caltrans AADT covers state highways only.
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