---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001364250-23-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DEI"
cik: "0001364250"
company_name: "Douglas Emmett Inc"
filed_at: "2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T12:32:36.933066+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Douglas Emmett's Barrington Plaza to remove all rental units for fire sprinkler retrofits costing over $300M

## Summary
- All 577 occupied units at Barrington Plaza, Los Angeles, to be removed from rental market to install city-mandated fire sprinklers and life safety improvements.
- Project cost exceeds $300 million and will take several years; triggered by a January 2020 fire that killed a college exchange student.
- Management will comply with LA Rent Stabilization Ordinance, providing statutory notification and relocation payments; on-site specialists and hotline available.
- Eight floors have been red-tagged since the 2020 fire and remain out of service; two fires at the property within seven years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001364250-23-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DEI
- cik: 0001364250
- company_name: Douglas Emmett Inc
- filed_at: 2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364250/000136425023000035/0001364250-23-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364250/000136425023000035/nysedei-20230508.htm

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