The Continental Coin & Jewelry site at Sepulveda and Burbank boulevards could become a new stop for Double-Doubles. In-N-Out Burgers has filed plans with Los Angeles City Planning for a new drive-through restaurant at 5601 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, near the 405 Freeway, proposing to demolish the existing buildings and replace them with a restaurant and outdoor dining.
Continental Coin & Jewelry’s history on Sepulveda
Before the In-N-Out proposal, this corner was associated with coins, precious metals and jewelry. Continental’s website traces its service to the community back to 1964. The dated newspaper clippings below help document the address’s earlier uses and Continental’s presence there by 1973.
A February 14, 1972 Los Angeles Times clipping reports a fire at Broadloom City Carpet Co. at 5627 Sepulveda Boulevard. It describes a one-story building, so it should not be assumed to identify the two-story Continental frontage pictured here. A July 1973 legal notice also lists Builders Investment Company at the address.
By August 9, 1973, a Los Angeles Times advertisement explicitly names Continental Coin at 5627 Sepulveda Boulevard, offering silver bars and coins. Ads from 1974 and 1977 also place United States Silver Corporation at the same address. Together, the clippings document coin and precious-metals activity at this location more than five decades before the In-N-Out filing.
In 1987, the Los Angeles Times reported Continental’s $140 million annual sales, placing the Sepulveda business among California’s largest gold and silver dealers.
The company also has a place in bullion collecting. A collector’s history of Continental’s silver rounds documents privately minted silver art bars from the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the familiar U.S. Assay Office bars and rounds.
Today, the website reached through ContinentalCoin.com identifies Continental Coin and Jewelry as Diamond Limited Group’s retail store and gallery, with an address of 5627 Sepulveda Boulevard. Its offerings extend beyond coins and bullion to jewelry, luxury watches, fine art and collectibles. The submitted site plan also uses 5627 Sepulveda Boulevard, connecting the proposal to Continental’s listed address; the planning case’s primary address is 5601 N. Sepulveda Boulevard.
The proposal would bring a new use to a site with decades of coin-dealing history. The sources reviewed do not establish a closure or relocation date for Continental.
Later advertisements show the range of business associated with the address: a 1988 Continental holiday ad promotes jewelry and collectible medallions, while 2007 ads advertise buying, selling, loans and a Continental Auctions event.
The property behind the proposal
LoopNet’s property record for 5627 Sepulveda Boulevard identifies parcel 2243-002-008 and lists a 1.45-acre lot with a stores/offices land-use classification. This is a property-information page, rather than evidence of a sale to In-N-Out.
A supplied property-database screenshot identifies E C Nichols LLC as the owner of 5627 Sepulveda and lists the adjoining 5625 Sepulveda property in the same company’s portfolio. It records lot areas of 63,085 square feet and 12,265 square feet, respectively, with year-built entries of 1959 and 1968. Those dates describe the properties in that database; they do not establish when Continental opened at the corner.
Together, the two database lot areas total approximately 1.73 acres. The submitted site plan identifies both parcels, 2243-002-008 and 2243-002-012, and lists a gross project area of 75,298 square feet, or 1.729 acres. That helps explain why the proposed restaurant site is larger than the single 1.45-acre parcel shown on LoopNet. The database figures and plan area differ slightly, so the plan’s stated area is used for the proposal.
What In-N-Out is proposing
The city’s project description calls for a 2,291-square-foot restaurant, outdoor dining, a trash enclosure and separate restroom/IT-room structures. The proposal includes demolition of the existing buildings on the property.
The application lists Peter Kulmaticki of In-N-Out Burgers as the applicant and Sara Houghton of Three6ixty as the representative. City Planning identifies the site’s neighborhood council as Van Nuys and places it in Council District 4.
How will cars get in and out?
The submitted site plan, sheet C30, gives us a clearer picture: two proposed 28-foot-wide driveways on Sepulveda Boulevard, both drawn with inbound and outbound arrows. No vehicle driveway is shown on Burbank Boulevard. The restaurant sits toward the Burbank side of the property, with most parking to the north.
The drawing lists 63 parking spaces and a 40-vehicle drive-through queue. The queue winds along the freeway side of the property and around the restaurant, providing substantial space for cars to wait within the site.
Still, I am curious how this will work during the lunch and dinner rushes. With the nearby 405 ramps and traffic moving through Sepulveda and Burbank, the real test will be whether the planned queue can handle demand without cars backing into the parking aisles or onto Sepulveda. Having room for 40 vehicles is useful; knowing what happens when that room fills up is just as important.
The drawing also recalls the older In-N-Out format: two drive-through lanes serving opposite sides of the restaurant, rather than two ordering lanes that eventually merge into one payment and pickup lane. That merge can become a pinch point when both lines are busy. Here, the parallel service arrangement appears designed to keep both lanes moving through the restaurant.
For Valley readers, the layout brings to mind the In-N-Out at Balboa and Lassen, where an entrance lane from Balboa splits into two drive-through lanes. This is a comparison of the circulation pattern, rather than a claim that the two sites have identical layouts.
Reading the southern exit in the drawing, it appears to steer departing drivers toward a right turn onto Sepulveda. The driveway arrows alone do not establish a final right-turn-only restriction, so that should be confirmed in the city’s review. With Burbank Boulevard so close and the 405 on- and off-ramps nearby, it will be interesting to see how those exiting cars fit into the traffic already moving through the corner.
A look at the corner from the street
If the redevelopment moves forward, hopefully Valley Relics Museum can save the Continental Coin & Jewelry sign. It would be a fitting way to preserve a familiar piece of this corner’s history.
City review comes before an opening date
The requested entitlement is Project Review for a new drive-through establishment resulting in a net increase of at least 500 average daily vehicle trips. That figure describes the review threshold cited in the case summary; it is not a count of customers or cars waiting in line.
The case was filed October 2 and assigned October 6, 2026. As of October 12, the record shows “On Hold,” with no acceptance-for-review date, hearing date or decision date listed. The summary does not explain the hold or provide an opening timetable.
For now, the filing gives Valley burger fans a proposed location to watch. An opening date remains unconfirmed.
Readers can follow the City Planning case and access the submitted project plans. Find more local project coverage on SFV Blog’s Development & Architecture page.
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