Curbed LA
By BIANCA BARRAGAN
The massive South Park multi-use megaproject Metropolis, which was stalled out for decades, is now having a serious growth spurt—just about a month after starting construction on the development’s first phase—a 38-story condo tower and 19-story hotel—developers Greenland USA announced that they’re planning on starting phase two—two even taller residential towers—as soon as this fall, reports the Downtown News. That’s right: the project that’s been talked about since the ’80s, that once appeared in the A+D Museum’s Never Built exhibit, is now moving along at a swift clip. The new towers in the Gensler-designed project are certainly going to make their mark on the skyline: the taller will be 54 stories with 740 condos; the other will be 40 stories with 510 condos…