Movers serving Studio City and Toluca Lake
Studio City sits in the southeast corner of the San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass, with Toluca Lake beside it to the east. Together they hold three kinds of move. In the hills south of Ventura Boulevard, it is an access move on canyon streets. On the flats, from the Silver Triangle to Colfax Meadows, it is a house move on quiet residential blocks. In Toluca Lake, it is often an estate move around a private lake, sometimes on the Burbank side of the city line. Elite Moving & Storage plans each of the three differently.
Studio City takes its name from the studio lot Mack Sennett opened in 1928 at what is now Ventura Boulevard and Radford Avenue, still a working lot today. Both Studio City and the Toluca Lake district belong to the City of Los Angeles, but the Burbank city line runs along Toluca Lake’s eastern side, so our walkthrough, in person or by video, begins with whose rules apply to the address, then where the truck can stand. The inventory follows, noting which pieces need custom crating, and together with the written estimate it becomes the plan for the white glove move.
Studio City movers in the hills: Laurel Canyon and Coldwater Canyon
South of Ventura Boulevard, Studio City rises into the Santa Monica Mountains toward Mulholland Drive, with parks such as Fryman Canyon and Wilacre Park among the homes. Two canyon roads carry most of the traffic over the hill. Laurel Canyon Boulevard climbs from Ventura, four lanes wide up to Mulholland, then over Lookout Mountain and down into West Hollywood. Coldwater Canyon Avenue climbs to Mulholland and continues as Coldwater Canyon Drive down to Beverly Hills. At rush hour both are popular alternates to the Hollywood Freeway, so loaded runs over the hill are timed between the peaks.
The side streets are where access gets tight. Picturesque Drive, Eureka Drive and Ridgemoor Drive are narrow enough that the Fire Department posts stretches of them for Red Flag parking. Here a full-size truck usually waits on a wider street below while a shuttle truck works the last stretch to the door, with extra crew on the stairs. Hardwood, stone and any glass along the path are covered first. For homes on the far side of Laurel Canyon, see West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills.
The flats: the Silver Triangle, Colfax Meadows and the river
Between Ventura Boulevard and the hills, the Silver Triangle is a mostly flat pocket of single-family homes west of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and below Fryman Canyon, mixing original houses with new construction. North of Ventura, the Los Angeles River and the Tujunga Wash run through Studio City in concrete channels and meet just west of Colfax Avenue.
Just east of there, Colfax Meadows, between Colfax and Beck Avenues, was subdivided by the Lankershim Ranch Land & Water Company into lots of about 15,000 square feet, and in 1988 neighbors asked the city for RE11-1 zoning, which bars splitting lots below 11,000 square feet. Bigger lots often mean the truck can load from the drive rather than the street. Where the curb is needed instead, the Los Angeles Department of Transportation posts the temporary no-parking signs, and we send that request well before move day.
Toluca Lake movers: lakefront estates and the Burbank line
Toluca Lake, a neighborhood of about 1.2 square miles just east of Studio City, grew from 1923 around a natural lake. The six-acre lake is owned by the homeowners around it and maintained by the Toluca Lake Property Owners Association, formed in 1934. It is ringed by private homes and the fairways of Lakeside Golf Club, whose course was designed in 1924, and it is hidden from the public. Around it and on nearby streets such as Valley Spring Lane stand Spanish colonial and colonial-style houses from the 1920s and 1930s, and at least one estate runs to more than five acres.
The community also crosses a city line. The Toluca Lake district is part of the City of Los Angeles, but the wider neighborhood spills over into Burbank, and for much of the way north from the Los Angeles River, Clybourn Avenue is the line, with Los Angeles on its west side and Burbank on its east. So the first question is the city, then the carry. A lakeside property with a main house, guest quarters and staff is planned as an estate move. For the rest of Burbank, see Burbank movers.
Historic homes and high-end collections
Toluca Lake was laid out from 1923 and Studio City grew up around its studio from the late 1920s, so older houses here can have original hardwood, tile, plaster and built-ins that are easy to mark and hard to repair. Floor runners go down and door frames and stair rails are padded before anything is carried, and the crew keeps to the rooms and entrances agreed in the plan. Inside, paintings, antiques, stone tops and high-end collections of design pieces are each packed to suit the piece, with custom crating where one needs it, and art that needs specialist handling is planned through fine art moving. If the next house is not ready, storage holds what it cannot take yet, listed on the move inventory.
Studio lots, creative offices and production moves
Studio City and Toluca Lake sit close to working studio lots, in Studio City itself and over the line in Burbank and Universal City, and both neighborhoods have long been home to people who work in film and television. Office and creative studio moves follow the building’s rules: loading dock and elevator reservations, set hours and a certificate of insurance first. We inventory by department, pack equipment, art and files to travel, label everything to the new floor plan and work outside business hours. See office and commercial moving, and for sets, props and event builds, event and production moves.
Moving west along Ventura? The hills and condominiums next door are covered on the page for Sherman Oaks movers, and for the wider Valley, start with San Fernando Valley movers.
