Rendering: Regent Properties. Historic station photograph: Ivor Levene / The LA Beat.
The former KMPC transmitter property at 12755 Burbank Boulevard in Valley Village, later used by Disney/ABC radio operations, could become a neighborhood of 303 for-sale homes. Regent Properties has filed plans to redevelop the approximately 19-acre site, according to Steven Sharp’s September 30 report in Urbanize LA.
The proposal combines traditional single-family homes and townhomes, with buildings rising up to three stories. It would also introduce publicly accessible green space and improvements along the Burbank Boulevard frontage.
Single-family homes and townhomes planned
The proposed homes would offer floor plans ranging from one to five bedrooms, with 727 parking spaces serving the development. Five percent of the new homes would be reserved for purchase by lower-income households, adding an income-restricted ownership component to the project.
Urbanize’s September 30 report does not identify home prices, specific buyer income limits or a sales schedule.
Regent’s approximately $72.6 million acquisition
The housing proposal follows Regent’s purchase of the former radio property in 2025. Traded’s transaction listing gives a June 25, 2025 closing date, identifies ABC Radio as the seller and lists 836,352 square feet, equivalent to 19.2 acres, for the development site.
Traded’s transaction panel shows a price of $72,600,415. Commercial Observer’s July 25, 2025 report, citing property records, separately reports that an ABC affiliate sold the site to a Regent Properties affiliate for $72.6 million.
The seller was represented by Newmark’s Kevin Shannon, Chris Benton, Anthony Muhlstein, Sean O’Leary, Gabe Munson and Ken White, according to both transaction reports.
Pricing note: Traded’s headline and narrative summary state $75 million, while its transaction panel lists $72,600,415. This post uses approximately $72.6 million, consistent with the panel and Commercial Observer’s reporting.
Marketing image: Dean Zander / LinkedIn.
Green space for residents and neighbors
Plans call for green space that would be accessible to the surrounding community, along with streetscape improvements on Burbank Boulevard. The report does not specify the size of the public open space or its operating hours.
In a statement cited by Urbanize, Regent chief investment officer Sam Kraus described the project as an opportunity to create a lasting community where families can purchase homes and put down roots. He also said the company intends to work with Council District 2, neighbors and city officials as the proposal moves forward.
Proposed development rendering gallery
Views of the proposed homes, landscaped walkways, entrance and green space. Click any image to enlarge.
All development renderings: Regent Properties.
Before the housing proposal: KMPC and Gene Autry
Long before the redevelopment application, this Burbank Boulevard property served as the transmitter site for KMPC (710 AM), the station associated with Gene Autry and the “Station of the Stars” name. Its three radio towers were arranged in a north–south line across the grounds.
Historic station photograph: Ivor Levene / The LA Beat.
Autry’s Valley connections have appeared on SFV Blog before. Our April 2011 coverage of Jeff Probst’s purchase of Gene Autry’s Studio City estate reported the $5 million sale of the Fryman Canyon property. For the wider Hollywood ranch-home setting, our post on Yvonne de Carlo’s former Studio City home recalls Autry among the entertainers associated with the Valley’s era of sprawling celebrity ranches.
Broadcast historian Scott Fybush documented the site during visits in 2008 and 2009. His account dates the original transmitter building to 1942, with an expansion in 1946 to accommodate higher-power broadcasting. The Art Deco transmitter building was demolished in 2009 after a replacement facility was built nearby.
The 710 AM operation later used the KTZN call letters for a talk format, KDIS for Radio Disney and KSPN for ESPN Radio. Fybush’s illustrated site history records these changes and the surviving traces of Autry’s era, including star decorations on the old building.
KSPN moved its transmitter operation to a shared site in Irwindale in 2022, according to Doc Searls’s March 2025 account, closing the Burbank Boulevard property’s long broadcasting chapter.
Towers, an addition and a grass fire: the newspaper record
A contemporary newspaper item pushes the documented planning history back to December 1941. The supplied December 12 clipping from The Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet lists three radio towers, valued at $3,500 each, to be erected at 12755 Burbank Boulevard for “Station of the Stars.” It records the proposed work, rather than an exact completion date.
A September 9, 1946 permit roundup in the same newspaper reports a $12,000 addition to KMPC’s transmitter at the address. The item complements Fybush’s account of the building’s expansion that year.
The grounds also made the local news for a less welcome reason. A July 8, 1948 clipping reports that a grass fire threatened the KMPC towers and kept three fire companies occupied for two hours before it was stopped, after burning 20 acres.
A planned civil-defense siren at KMPC
An April 2, 1952 Valley Times clipping lists the KMPC transmitter at 12755 Burbank Boulevard among planned locations for new attack-warning sirens in the Valley. This was part of the city’s civil-defense program, a separate effort from the traffic-bulletin system later known as the Sigalert.
Newspaper clipping gallery
December 12, 1941: tower permits; September 9, 1946: transmitter addition; July 8, 1948: grass fire; April 2, 1952: planned civil-defense sirens. Click each clipping to read it at full size.
The site in a growing Valley
The annotated aerial below, labeled July 1, 1956, shows the long, open transmitter parcel amid surrounding residential blocks. Valley College is marked to the west, with Burbank Boulevard along the bottom edge of the KMPC property.
That stretch of Burbank Boulevard continues to change. As we described in our 1957 Valley College postcard post, the college’s new Valley Academic Hall opened on February 6, 2026. The approximately $90 million, 80,000-square-foot classroom building near Ethel Avenue replaced the scale of the campus’s old bungalow era with a three-story academic facility.
Inside the transmitter facility
The photographs below show the station’s exterior, transmitter rooms and equipment. Fybush’s 2008–2009 photographs document the transition from the old building to its replacement; the additional archival views preserve details of the earlier facility. Click the photographs to inspect the original images and any embedded credits.
Photographs: Scott Fybush / Fybush.com — KDIS exterior (2002); remaining KSPN photographs (2009 site tour).
Additional transmitter photographs
Photographs: Coutant.org — KMPC transmitter photo collection.
KMPC’s connection to the Sigalert
The station also has a place in Southern California traffic history. Loyd C. Sigmon, a broadcasting executive associated with KMPC and Autry, devised the alert system that became known as the Sigalert in 1955. It allowed police bulletins to be recorded at radio stations for broadcast.
A history hosted by the California Highway Patrol describes the system’s beginnings with the Los Angeles Police Department; the CHP later took over its administration. That account establishes the KMPC connection, but does not identify the Burbank Boulevard transmitter property as the place where Sigmon developed the system.
City approvals still ahead
The development remains a proposal. Urbanize reports that the project will require Los Angeles City Planning Commission approval of requested density bonus incentives. Readers can follow the application through the city’s listing for case CPC-2026-5045-DB-PR-VHCA and the 12755 Burbank Boulevard project website.
Urbanize’s September 30 report did not provide a construction start or completion date. The approval process will help determine how the proposed homes, public green space and street improvements take shape on this large Valley Village property.
Historical Google Street View
Old KMPC building — July 2007
Rear of the property — December 2020
Images: Google Street View.
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Sources and research links
- Urbanize LA — Steven Sharp’s September 30, 2026 development report
- Regent Properties — project information and renderings
- Los Angeles City Planning — project case
- Traded — property sale
- Commercial Observer — acquisition reporting
- Dean Zander on LinkedIn — Newmark marketing image
- Ivor Levene, The LA Beat — Vanguards of History: The KMPC Transmitter
- Scott Fybush — KSPN/KMPC site history and photographs
- Doc Searls — transmitter relocation and site history
- California Highway Patrol — Sigalert history
- LACCD — Valley Academic Hall opening
- SFV Blog — 1957 Valley College postcard and campus redevelopment
- Scott Fybush — 2002 KDIS transmitter-site photograph
- Coutant.org — KMPC transmitter photographs
- 710 KMPC — station history
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