The Viper Room
Live music venue · WeHo ·
Iconic music venue with a storied past and intimate vibe
Iconic music venue with a storied past and intimate vibe
"I learned that West Hollywood approved an 11-story mixed-use development above the current Viper Room on the Sunset Strip that will demolish the longtime music venue; the project includes a 90-room hotel, 78 housing units (including 16 affordable-rate units) and 28,000 square feet of restaurant, cafe and bar areas, with a nearly 7,000-square-foot footprint where the Viper Room may reopen — the venue was co-owned by Johnny Depp and Sal Jenco in the ’90s and long served as a hangout for upstart punk, metal and alt-rock bands and was notorious for drug-related incidents." - Matthew Kang
"The redevelopment of the Viper Room address at 8850 Sunset Boulevard is progressing with new renderings available, and the planned 11-story mixed-use project should include a hotel, residential units, restaurants, and retail, though the property is not expected to be open to the public until at least 2026." - Farley Elliott
"A longtime Sunset Strip venue is slated for demolition to make way for a 12-story, mixed-use high-rise, with construction scheduled to begin in 2023, marking a significant redevelopment on that historic stretch of the boulevard." - Mona Holmes
"I learned that the iconic Viper Room — opened by Johnny Depp and former actor Sal Jenco in 1993 — will be transformed into a 12-story high-rise beginning in 2023; LA-based Silver Creek Development plans to convert 8852 W. Sunset Boulevard into a residential building with restaurants, cafes, a luxury hotel, a music venue, and a recording studio, with original Viper Room memorabilia featured throughout, and that this change (at the corner of Sunset and Larabee) will make that stretch of the Sunset Strip look unrecognizable in a few years." - Mona Holmes
"A small, well-known performance venue on the local music scene that is posting signs to communicate the city's vaccine proof policy to attendees." - Mona Holmes
