​An almost-coastal village with cosmopolitan sensibilities, Westwood's premier restaurants, revered playhouses, and top-notch university campus uphold LA’s reputation for looking good. Catering to both students and starlets, Westwood’s sleek cafes and wily street performers walk a fine line between intimidatingly chic and invitingly approachable.

 

Westwood is a neighborhood that welcomes everyone, right in the middle of everything. It is a vibrant, unique community centrally located in Los Angeles & serving neighborhoods of Westwood, Holmby Hills, Wilshire Corridor, Bel Air, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, & Santa Monica. Westwood Village is easily accessible & provides a retreat for Angelenos from their busy, big-city lives. Westwood Village is a historical landmark, built in 1928 by the Janss family as a retail village. The architecture represents the historical relevance of this community & allows for a charming environment for visitors, residents, UCLA students, & people who work in the area. 

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Westwood is bordered by Brentwood and the 405 (San Diego) Freeway on the west, Bel-Air on the north, Century City and Beverly Hills on the east, West Los Angeles on the southwest, Rancho Park on the southeast, and Sawtelle on the south and southwest. For those preferring a truly luxury urban approach to living, Westwood also features a winding two-mile section of Wilshire Boulevard to the east of the Village that is dominated by residential high-rises, known as The Wilshire Corridor or the Millionaire’s Mile.

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The community is best known as the home of the University of California, which is the biggest single plot of land in the area. In the neighborhood you’ll also find the W Hotel Westwood, built in 1969 as a University of California Los Angeles dormitory and converted to a hotel in the 1980s, and then renovated in 2000. This 16-story structure sits amid a residential block on a magnolia-lined street. Westwood features several vintage movie theaters including the Crest, Mann Village (formerly the Fox Theater) and Mann Bruin, the site of many movie premiers and red carpet events.

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