City of Los Angeles · West Hollywood
Melrose Avenue
Melrose Ave street numbers 7100–9000 (approx. La Brea area to the West Hollywood edge near Doheny/Robertson) plus Melrose Place 8400–8499 blocks. Numbers above ~8000 are largely in West Hollywood.
Openings vs closings · Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026
opened closed · by month; first and last months are partial
⚠ 69 of the 105 closings share one end date (2026-10-13), 69 with no industry code — likely an administrative batch closure of accounts, not storefronts closing that day. Excluding it: 55 opened vs 36 closed, net +19 (60% 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 (data.lacity.org 6rrh-rzua)
- Closing = LA Office of Finance registrations with a location end date in the period (data.lacity.org tkh9-tssh)
- Covers only the City of LA portion (~7100–8000). The West Hollywood stretch (~8000–9000) has no business-registration data here.
- 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, otherwise “insufficient 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.
No curated items yet for this corridor.
Data gap: West Hollywood portion — data source pending
Melrose Ave numbers above ~8000 are largely in the City of West Hollywood. City of LA business registrations and LADBS permits do not cover West Hollywood addresses, so registration and permit activity for that stretch is missing here. CA ABC liquor-license records are statewide and do cover it. Next step: add West Hollywood business-license and permit data.
Submarket rent & vacancy — data source pending
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 — data source pending
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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