Videos from Monday's Press Conference on the Millennium Hollywood Project

On Monday, groups opposed to the Millennium Hollywood Project held a press conference announcing what they said was new evidence against the project.  

Robert Silverstein, attorney for Communities United for Reasonable Development, said the California State Board for Professional Engineers and Geologists opened an official investigation into two engineers for the Millennium Hollywood Project. He also announced the California Geological Survey would be studying the area to confirm the existence of active earthquake faults in the area and whether the land would fall under the Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act. 

The one-million-square-foot proposed project, located on Vine Avenue near the Capitol Records building, is planned to be a residential, hotel, office, restaurant and retail space, as well as a sports club.

The developer of the Millennium Hollywood project, however, denied the allegations.

Millennium Partners co-founder Philip Arons responded by saying the "allegations regarding the environmental review of the plans for Millennium Hollywood that were raised today by attorney Robert Silverstein are false."

Arons said studies done so far on the area "found no evidence of an active fault on the project site."

He also said the company would be required to perform a final geotechnical report that meets the city's approval before the project could be built.

As of now, the Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to discuss and potentially approve the Millennium Project at it’s meeting on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in John Ferraro Council Chamber (room 340) at the Los Angeles City Hall (200 North Spring Street).

-City News Service contributed to this report