West Hollywood (mostly)
West Melrose
Melrose Ave street numbers 8380–9000 (N Orlando Ave west to the Doheny/Robertson edge) plus Melrose Place 8400–8499. Mostly City of West Hollywood.
Openings vs closings · Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026
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7 dated opening/closing records once a likely administrative batch of 5 same-day closings (2026-10-13) is excluded; a rating appears once there are 10+.
opened closed · by month; first and last months are partial
⚠ 5 of the 9 closings share one end date (2026-10-13), 5 with no industry code — likely an administrative batch closure of accounts, not storefronts closing that day. Excluding it: 3 opened vs 4 closed, net -1 (43% openings) → unhealthy.
- 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)
- This stretch is mostly West Hollywood, which City of LA registrations don't cover, so the rating builds as West Hollywood data, tips and curated sources are added.
- 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).
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.
Now open
- Now openAimé Leon Dore8746 Melrose Ave, West HollywoodOpened Apr 2026. The NYC menswear brand's Los Angeles flagship.Source: Aimé Leon Dore — LA flagship (Apr 16, 2026) · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Aimé Leon Dore — LA flagship (Apr 16, 2026)
- Now openSporty & Rich8619 Melrose Ave, West HollywoodOpened Apr 2026. Emily Oberg's 5,200 sq ft West Coast flagship, with a café and private pilates studio.Source: Hypebeast — Sporty & Rich LA flagship (Apr 21, 2026) · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Hypebeast — Sporty & Rich LA flagship (Apr 21, 2026)
- Now openY-38500 Melrose Ave, West HollywoodOpened Jul 2026. Yohji Yamamoto × adidas: the first Y-3 store worldwide in the brand's new retail design.Source: West Hollywood Design District — Y-3 opens July 16 · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via West Hollywood Design District — Y-3 opens July 16
- Now openAGOLDE8407 Melrose Pl, Los AngelesOpened May 2026. The LA denim label's first-ever store, a gallery-like space with a pink marble "river" by artist Niki Haas.Source: RetailBoss — AGOLDE on Melrose Place · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via RetailBoss — AGOLDE on Melrose Place
- Now openStill Here8627 Melrose Ave, West HollywoodOpened Sep 2026. NYC denim brand's first West Coast store.Source: Hoodline (Sep 28, 2026) · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Hoodline (Sep 28, 2026)
Coming soon
- Coming soonSobuneh (Melrose Place)8428 Melrose Pl, Suite E, Los AngelesPer local tip: the breakfast-burrito café is taking the former Croft Alley space. Not yet publicly announced; no opening date. Sobuneh already operates nearby at 8447-B Melrose Ave (opened early 2026).Source: Broker tip — Philip Klaparda, Dembo Realty · Also: Sobuneh — official site · Also: The Infatuation — Sobuneh, 8447 Melrose Ave (Feb 2026) · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Broker tip — Philip Klaparda, Dembo Realty
Closed
- ClosedCroft Alley (Melrose Place)8428 Melrose Pl, Suite E, Los AngelesMelrose Place café closed; Croft Alley's own site now lists only Beverly Hills (9433 Brighton Way), SoHo and DTLA (707 Wilshire).Source: Broker tip — Philip Klaparda, Dembo Realty · noted 2026-10-22Status verified 2026-10-22 via Broker tip — Philip Klaparda, Dembo Realty · Croft Alley — locations (Melrose Place no longer listed)
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Adding West Hollywood data soon
West Melrose (8380–9000 + Melrose Place) is mostly in the City of West Hollywood. City of LA registrations and permits don't cover it, so this page currently shows CA ABC liquor-license records (statewide) plus curated items and tips. West Hollywood business-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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