Security guard services in North Hollywood for the bars, theatres and restaurants of the NoHo Arts District, apartment buildings over shops along Lankershim and Magnolia boulevards, and construction around the North Hollywood Metro station. Unarmed officers, all registered with California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), with a written report after every shift.
North Hollywood is about to be rebuilt around its transit station. In October 2024 the Metro board approved District NoHo, a roughly 16-acre joint development at the B and G Line station with more than 1,400 apartments, retail, office space and public open space, built in phases and targeted for completion around 2032. That is years of construction next to a station that keeps running.
Around it sits the Arts District's theatres and restaurants, dense apartment blocks, and the commercial corridors that serve both. LAPD's North Hollywood Division covers it, and the crime mix here leans heavily to property crime rather than violent crime.
CAL Security Group is licensed as a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) by California's Bureau of Security and Investigative Services (BSIS), and every officer we send is unarmed.
A job site next to a working transit station is a different problem from one behind a fence in an industrial park. People walk past it at every hour, there is no quiet period, and the perimeter has to stay both secure and passable.
Coverage tapers as buildings close in. That is the point of quoting by phase rather than signing a flat annual rate: you should pay for the weeks that need an officer, not the months that do not.
Theatres, bars and restaurants with crowds arriving and leaving at set times. Door cover on show nights, a walk of the block at closing, and parking watched while audiences return to their cars.
Event security →The B and G Line station brings people through at every hour, including long after nearby businesses close. Properties beside it buy patrol stops timed to the last trains rather than a fixed post.
Dense residential blocks with subterranean parking, package rooms and gates that close too slowly. Officers walk the levels, watch gates shut and log the entry points that keep failing.
Apartment security →Storefronts, service businesses and small offices that close early and sit dark. Lock-up rounds and shared patrol stops cover a strip like this for a fraction of a standing post.
Lock-up rounds →Studios, edit suites and equipment stores with expensive kit and irregular hours. Access control at the door, a log of who came in, and after-hours checks of the loading area.
Office security →Empty units between tenants and lots waiting on permits collect trespass and dumping. Logged patrol stops at varied hours, with every entry point found open written up.
Vacant property →North Hollywood is about 11 miles northwest of our office at 1208 W Jefferson Blvd in Los Angeles. Other city pages close by, by straight-line distance:
North Hollywood is part of the City of Los Angeles, so an alarm permit is required and two false alarms inside 365 days move the address to broadcast-and-file, where LAPD expects verification of a real entry before committing a unit. Operating a system without a permit is a misdemeanour in the city, which surprises most people who inherit a building with an alarm already installed.
A patrol officer holding your keys and codes attends, checks the doors and the perimeter, cancels faulty activations and calls police when the entry is real. The visit is logged either way.
On rates, unarmed guards in California bill at about $22 to $40 an hour on the open market, published market data rather than CAL Security Group's rate. The wage floor here is the City of Los Angeles rate of $18.42 an hour from July 1, 2026. Venue posts are bought by the night, construction by the phase, and patrol routes per visit. Our cost guide breaks the ranges down property by property.
Ask any company to price the exposed weeks separately. A flat annual rate on a job site usually means overpaying for the quiet months.
Tell us the address, the nights or hours you need, and whether it is a bar, a theatre, an apartment building or a job site. There is no charge for the walk, and the quote prices each post separately.
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