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In anticipation of tomorrow’s groundbreaking, machines have already arrived at Washington and National, the site of the first Expo Line-oriented project in Culver City. Access Culver City, formerly Legado Crossing, is a 115-unit mixed-user with 31,000 square feet of commercial space, becoming one of the first transit-oriented projects to be built along the Expo Line (there are some Geoffrey Palmer Tuscan beasts near the Twenty-Third Street station in University Park). Now called Access Culver City (starring Billy Bush) and developed by South Carolina’s Greystar Real Estate, the mixed-user will have 115 luxury apartments and 31,240 square feet of retail. It’ll have studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units, ranging in size from 607 to 1,844 square feet. Typical luxe touches like rec rooms, fitness center, interior courtyard, swimming pool, underground parking, and bike storage await renters, but a 7,000-square-foot courtyard with trees and benches will be open to the public too. Greystar expects work to be done next summer. Meanwhile, we’re hearing noise that there’s movement on the long-awaited The Platform retail center on the other side of the train.

An earlier rendering, showing the back of the development, made it look a little less thrilling than it may be, so here’s the latest look, showing ACC’s face, which includes a 7,000-square-foot plaza that hopes to lure not only residents, but commuters heading to the train. Speaking of which, the developer, says they plan to encourage transit use, but are keeping tight-lipped on how, as well as on how much parking their project includes (we hear it’s quite a bit): “There is adequate parking to serve the retail, which is an important component of this development,” Perry Pound, Managing Director of Development for Greystar, says. “We are also offering incentives to encourage Expo Line use.”