Beverly Hills' Beverly Dr Station: Entrance Location and Opening Timeline

"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 differs from the estimate Metro gave in an alert issued on December 31, 2025, when a Canyon News report quoted the agency as saying the same two stations were "expected to open... in 2026."

If you're comparing Beverly Hills to other central LA neighborhoods right now, you've probably seen the subway mentioned as a selling point. One practical detail is the station's entrance location: it will have one entrance on the south side of Wilshire Boulevard.

The Station's Planned Entrances

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.

The station's sole entrance is on the south side of Wilshire at Reeves Drive. Anyone walking to the shops, the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, or the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts from that entrance has to cross six lanes of Wilshire Boulevard. A listing-site radius may not capture that route, so check the entrance location and walking path when evaluating transit access.

The Current Opening Estimate

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

The sources show opening estimates changing over time. The city's current project page lists Spring 2027, later than the 2026 timelines reported in September 2024 and January 2026.

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; the Beverly Dr Station is currently expected to open in Spring 2027.

How the Entrance Location Affects Nearby Blocks

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, including the Golden Triangle where Rodeo Drive, the Beverly Wilshire, and the Wallis Annenberg Center sit, require crossing Wilshire to reach the station entrance. When evaluating a condo or a commercial-adjacent home based on transit access, consider which side of Wilshire it is on and its distance from Reeves Drive.

Construction Impacts Along the Corridor

The examples below describe construction impacts on nearby streets and businesses, along with Metro's business-support program.

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.

The Wilshire/La Cienega station began carrying riders on May 8, 2026. The city's current construction update lists curb ramp work and a full street rehabilitation at the La Cienega and Wilshire intersection as underway this quarter; tunneling for that segment was completed in April 2024.

The Wilshire/La Cienega work also shows that street-level construction can continue after service begins; the Beverly Dr Station is currently expected to open in Spring 2027.

Beverly Hills Price Data During Construction

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 changing completion estimate and a single entrance at Reeves Drive matter when evaluating transit access.

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.