The effort to build a new restaurant at the site now occupied by Gladstones just took a huge step forward.

The California Coastal Commission last week approved an application to build a Frank Gehry -designed, Wolfgang Puck -run venue, with conditions.

The venue will include a new 17,712 sq. ft. restaurant (that’s down from Gladstones’ 20,000 sq. foot restaurant and dining deck footprint), a 2,094 sq. ft. public deck with seating, two public restrooms, a cafe and a retail shop.

“There will be two restaurants, one more casual for people who want to get food or ice cream and eat at the beach and one more upscale restaurant,” Puck told the Los Angeles Times after L.A. County Supervisors voted 3-1 in 2018 to allow his group to negotiate with the Department of Beaches and Harbors.

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