The Beverly Hills Subway Station Has One Door, and It Isn't on the Rodeo Drive Side

"Metro is expected to open the Beverly Dr and Century City/Constellation stations in Spring 2027."

That sentence sits on the City of Beverly Hills' own construction page right now. It's a quiet correction to a date that Metro itself was still repeating as recently as an alert issued on December 31, 2025, when the agency told residents the same two stations were "expected to open... in 2026." Somewhere between that alert and today, the timeline moved by at least a year. Nobody announced it with a press release. It just changed on the page.

If you're comparing Beverly Hills to other central LA neighborhoods right now, you've probably seen the subway mentioned as a selling point. What you likely haven't seen is the mechanical detail that actually determines who benefits from it: the station will have exactly one entrance, and it opens onto the wrong side of the street for the shopping district its name implies.

The Entrance That Never Got Built

The new stop, officially named Beverly Dr Station and referred to for years in planning documents as Wilshire/Rodeo, is being built underground on the south side of Wilshire Boulevard, on the site of the former Ace Gallery between Beverly Drive and Reeves Drive. The entrance under construction sits at the southwest corner of Wilshire and Reeves Drive.

That's the only entrance that's actually getting built. Beverly Hills had planned a second portal on the north side of Wilshire, at the northwest corner of Wilshire and Beverly Drive, next to the Wilshire Beverly Center office complex. That portal would have put riders out almost directly onto the Golden Triangle: the Rodeo Drive retail corridor, the hotels, the walk toward Spago. In May 2024, the Beverly Hills City Council voted to discontinue that second entrance after its projected cost swelled past $134 million, roughly 70 percent above the original budget.

So the station keeps the name tied to Rodeo Drive and Beverly Drive, but the only way in or out is a block away, on the south side, at Reeves. Anyone heading to the shops, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, or the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has to cross six lanes of Wilshire Boulevard to get there on foot. That's a meaningfully different walk than the map radius suggests, and it's the kind of detail that doesn't show up until you're standing at the corner.

A Date That Keeps Sliding

Here's what the public messaging has said, in order, as construction has continued:

None of these sources are wrong exactly. They're describing a moving target at different points in its motion. But the direction only moves one way, later, and the most recent authority on the subject, the city's own project page, is the one that pushed the date past the calendar year everyone had been quoting consistently since at least September 2024.

This matters for anyone timing a purchase around the idea that a working subway stop is a near-term amenity. It isn't. The corridor between the two Beverly Hills stations is still an active construction zone with a fresh completion estimate that landed a year later than the last one.

Which Blocks Actually Get the Walk

Assume for a moment the Spring 2027 date holds. Even then, the walk-to-transit story splits the neighborhood in a way that a half-mile radius on a listing site won't show you.

Properties and buildings south of Wilshire, closer to Reeves Drive and Beverly Gardens Park, get a genuine walk-out. That includes the stretch near Reeves Park and the office and residential buildings along South Beverly Drive.

Properties north of Wilshire, the ones actually inside the Golden Triangle where Rodeo Drive, the Beverly Wilshire, and the Wallis Annenberg Center sit, get a crossing, not a walk-out. The station's name suggests proximity to that side. Its geography doesn't deliver it. If you're evaluating a condo or a commercial-adjacent home based on transit access, the correct question isn't "how close is it to the station" but "which side of Wilshire is it on and how far past Reeves Drive."

The Disruption Bill Already Came Due

Whatever premium eventually shows up for proximity to Beverly Dr Station, the cost of getting there has been running for years, and it's been paid mostly by the businesses and residents nearest the construction, not by future riders.

South Reeves Drive at Wilshire had a full three-week closure starting February 24, 2025, with a 16-foot sound barrier installed along the closure area. Canon Drive, about 150 feet south of Wilshire, went through a series of closure extensions the City Council approved over more than a year, with the final one in September 2025 stipulating no further push past March 14, 2026, backed by a penalty of $20,000 per day if Metro missed that deadline. Metro's own Eat Shop Play program, running since 2014, has been issuing grants to businesses caught in the construction footprint. At a September 2024 community meeting, Metro specifically called out Boss Sushi on La Cienega Boulevard and Fatamorgana Gelato on Beverly Drive as businesses receiving that support.

Even the stretch that's already open, the Wilshire/La Cienega station that started running trains on May 8, 2026, isn't finished at street level. The city's current construction update lists curb ramp work and a full street rehabilitation at the La Cienega and Wilshire intersection still underway this quarter, well over two years after tunneling for that segment was completed in April 2024 and months after trains started running there.

That's the pattern worth sitting with. The disruption is concrete and already billed. The benefit is still a projection with a date that has moved once and could move again.

What the Price Data Says While Everyone Waits

Beverly Hills prices haven't stood still during any of this, but the numbers don't point in one clean direction, which is itself informative. Over the three months ending in July 2026, the median sale price for a home in Beverly Hills was $4.0 million, up 18.2 percent from the same period a year earlier. Price per square foot rose to roughly $1,290, up 8.9 percent year over year.

At the same time, homes are sitting longer, not shorter. The average time on market over that period was 70 days, up from 52 days a year earlier. If a station opening were already getting priced into nearby listings the way buyers often assume, you'd expect faster absorption near the corridor, not slower absorption citywide. Instead, the market looks like it's still digesting a mix of factors, and other trackers show just how unsettled the picture is: one source's first-quarter 2026 figures put the median for all home types down 9.1 percent year over year even as single-family houses alone rose 25.5 percent and condos sat flat. Different segments of the same city are moving in different directions in the same quarter.

None of that tells you the subway is priced in or priced out. It tells you the story is still unresolved, which is exactly why a moving completion date and a single, oddly placed entrance matter more than they would in a market that had already settled into a clear pattern.

Three Questions We Get About the Beverly Dr Station

Does the already-open Wilshire/La Cienega stop already carry a transit premium? It's too early to isolate that from the broader price and volume swings in the data above. The station is new enough, and the surrounding streetscape work incomplete enough, that any clean read is still a quarter or two away.

Will the canceled north portal ever get revisited? The settlement between Metro and the city requires the two sides to meet and confer on the north portal's future, but nothing in the current record commits Metro to building it. Until that changes, plan around the single Reeves Drive entrance.

Is Spring 2027 likely to hold? Given that the estimate has already moved once from a general 2026 target, treat it as the best current information rather than a fixed date. Confirm the city's own construction update page before making a decision that depends on the timing.

If you're weighing a purchase near this corridor, or trying to figure out whether a specific block's proximity claim actually holds up once you account for the entrance location, that's a conversation worth having before you write an offer. The Xuereb Group tracks these kinds of block-by-block distinctions across Beverly Hills and the neighborhoods around it, including our own Beverly Hills guide. If you want a straight read on what a specific address's transit story actually looks like on the ground, schedule a complimentary consultation and we'll walk through it with you.