Palisociety hotel group announced Friday that it will open its Palihotel Culver City on December 29, just in time for New Year’s Eve. The project will refurbish an existing, 49-room hotel that sits right behind the city’s ArcLight Theater and a short jaunt from the Expo Line. The property opened as the West End Hotel in the 1920s. It was rumored to be the first LA residence of Joan Crawford. Read the Curbed/Los Angeles story here