The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced the 2026 cohort for its LEED for Cities certification program. The cohort includes 17 cities from across the U.S. that are committed to certification under the LEED v4.1 Existing Cities rating system. The program, supported by longtime partner Bank of America, helps to institutionalize and operationalize sustainability in local government through the LEED for Cities certification process.

Local governments are navigating extreme weather events, all while facing their own resource constraints. LEED for Cities provides a proven framework and roadmap for local governments to advance sustainable development and implement comprehensive sustainability strategies that improve health and quality of life while reducing waste and negative environmental impacts.

“Local governments are a driving force behind creating more sustainable, healthier communities for all residents,” said Peter Templeton, president and CEO, USGBC. “Through the LEED for Cities certification program, these forward-thinking municipalities are setting ambitious goals, measuring their progress, and demonstrating leadership in improving community health, efficiency, resilience, and livability. The 2026 cohort represents a diverse set of cities united in their commitment to creating a better future.”

The LEED for Cities Certification Cohort is a component of USGBC’s Local Government Leadership Program, which provides in-person leadership summits, peer learning opportunities, technical assistance, and ongoing support to cities and counties across the country.

“The LEED for Cities Cohort provided valuable structure and support, especially for small sustainability teams like ours,” said Alex Pharmakis, sustainability manager for the city of Farmers Branch, Texas, a 2025 cohort participant. “With practical resources and access to a strong network of peers, the program simplified our path to certification.”

Local governments can certify in LEED for Cities on their own, but some choose to participate in the cohort for the camaraderie and competition that comes with a group effort. Participants meet monthly in group settings where they troubleshoot data issues, share concerns, and inspire one another to reach the finish line. Project management resources provided to participants help them reach milestones and ultimately submit their certification application for review by the end of the program year.

The 2026 cohort includes 17 local jurisdictions across the U.S. representing 2.5 million people:

• Calabasas, Calif.
• Carlsbad, Calif.
• College Park, Md.
• Commerce City, Colo.
• Fitchburg, Wis.
• Grand Rapids, Mich.
• Hoboken, N.J.
• Indianapolis, Ind.
• La Mesa, Calif.
• Longmont, Colo.
• Lower Merion Township, Pa.
• Manhattan Beach, Calif.
• Medford, Mass.
• Moline, Ill.
• Nashville, Tenn.
• Sacramento, Calif.
• Westminster, Colo.

In partnership with the Bank of America, the LEED for Cities certification program has provided direct support to nearly 140 U.S. local governments, representing 58 million people, since 2017. Since 2011, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation has contributed more than $4.55 million in total grant funding to USGBC to support its work advancing sustainable buildings and communities. Bank of America has also demonstrated leadership in green building within its own operations through the achievement of LEED certifications across its global portfolio. More than 33% of the bank’s occupied real estate has achieved green building certifications, and the company aims to achieve certification for 40% of its building space by 2030.

If you blew through all eight episodes of BEEF Season 2 in a single sitting, there’s a good chance you spent at least part of that time wondering whether the pristine cliffside country club, the sun-drenched Ojai neighborhoods, and the ultra-modern Malibu mansions were real. Spoiler: most of them are, and some you can actually visit.

Beef Season 2 Filming Locations

Principal photography took place from January to June 2025, with the crew working primarily across Los Angeles and Ventura County before heading to Seoul, South Korea for final scenes. The show’s production designer Grace Yun spent months crafting a visual world that feels like an endless, slightly suffocating vacation, all butter yellows, eternal green lawns, and sun-soaked Spanish architecture.

1. Monte Vista Point Country Club – Spanish Hills Club, Camarillo, California

The fictional Monte Vista Point Country Club is the beating heart of Season 2, a gilded cage dressed up as a paradise. From the very first scene, the show wants you to understand exactly why someone would do almost anything to belong here. The camera sweeps over a cliffside lawn at golden hour, Pacific Ocean shimmering below, guests in linen and cashmere holding cocktails like they were born doing it.

The outdoor athletic facilities, the manicured tennis courts, the championship golf course, and the long fairway views were all filmed at Spanish Hills Club in Camarillo, California, a private country club perched dramatically on the highest point in Camarillo with sweeping views of the Santa Rosa Valley and the Topa Topa mountains. The club sits just minutes from the San Fernando Valley, Conejo Valley, Malibu, and Santa Barbara, which made it a logistically ideal base for the production team.

Lee Sung Jin has been candid about where the Season 2 concept came from. “With the success of Season 1, I had the opportunity to visit a lot of country clubs. It was interesting to see the level of comfort and luxury that is afforded to certain people,” he explained. “As I started to catch myself getting a little bit comfortable, I started thinking maybe there’s something here.”

The club’s Spanish-style architecture, white-washed walls, red clay-tiled roofs, arched walkways gave production designer Grace Yun exactly the kind of aspirational canvas she needed. Her color brief for the entire season was built around the idea of an “endless vacation of lush vibrancy, with eternal green grass and butter yellows,” drawing from the natural topography of the surrounding hills at sunset.

Spanish Hills Club is a private, members-only club, so showing up unannounced won’t get you past the gate. That said, the club does host private events and weddings, so there are ways in if you’re motivated enough.

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2. Monte Vista Point Country Club – Montecito Club, Santa Barbara, California

If Spanish Hills provided the sporting grounds, it was the Montecito Club in Santa Barbara that gave Monte Vista Point its soul. The sweeping great lawns, the elegant clubhouse exteriors that appear in nearly every outdoor establishing shot, and that iconic cliffside terrace opening scene, all Montecito.

While Monte Vista is fictional, much of Monte Vista’s outdoor athletic facilities were recreated at Spanish Hills Club’s tennis courts and golf courses, while Montecito provided the space for the lawns and clubhouse exteriors.

The Montecito Club is one of the most storied private clubs on the California coast, located in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country. It’s a stone’s throw from where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle settled, which tells you everything you need to know about the caliber of wealth the show is riffing on. The club’s gorgeous grounds, draped in mature trees, terraced lawns, and panoramic ocean views made it the perfect physical embodiment of what Sung Jin calls “a perfect microcosm of society.”

Like Spanish Hills, Montecito Club is a private institution, but its exterior and grounds have become recognizable to anyone who has spent time around Santa Barbara. Drive along the coast and you’ll catch glimpses of the same manicured hedges and clay rooflines you’ve been staring at all season.

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3. Josh and Lindsay’s House – Calabasas, California

One of the smartest location choices in Season 2 is the home belonging to Joshua and Lindsay Martín. The show tells us they live in Ojai – that artsy, spiritual, slightly hippie-adjacent city in Ventura County that has become a refuge for a certain kind of moneyed, wellness-obsessed millennial. But in reality, their half-renovated, warm-toned, English-cottage-meets-rustic-California home is located in Calabasas.

The disconnect is intentional and quietly hilarious. Calabasas is, of course, most famous for being Kardashian country, gated communities, surgical perfection, and the kind of ostentatious wealth that doesn’t try to hide itself. But Josh and Lindsay’s corner of it looks nothing like that. Their home is all exposed beams, earthy textures, and half-finished renovation projects that somehow feel simultaneously aspirational and deeply defeated.

Lee Sung Jin has described the house as a physical metaphor for the marriage itself. The couple has been meaning to finish the remodel for years, just like they’ve been meaning to fix their relationship, and neither is getting done any time soon. Set decorator Kellie Jo Tinney leaned into Lindsay’s “English cottage” aesthetic to show how she uses objects and decor as a substitute for genuine emotional connection: accumulating things because she can’t seem to accumulate the intimacy she actually wants.

The house sits in a neighborhood that gestures toward the organic, laid-back Ojai vibe while being firmly rooted in LA suburban reality, an irony the show wears openly. You can drive through the Calabasas hills and get the general atmosphere, though the specific property is privately owned.

4. Ashley and Austin’s Apartment – Newhall, California

While Ashley and Austin’s apartment interior scenes were shot on a studio set, the exterior establishing shots were captured at a real apartment complex in Newhall, a community within the city of Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County.

Newhall isn’t glamorous, it’s a working-class, historically scrappy corner of the LA sprawl that has been slowly gentrifying for years. For a young Gen Z couple who are renters by necessity rather than by choice, it makes complete sense. They’re doing what their generation does: personalizing a space they don’t own, making it feel like theirs through thrift finds and family heirlooms, building something sentimental in a world that doesn’t offer them much permanence.

Production designer Grace Yun described their approach to the space as “sentimental nesting” – driven by objects with personal meaning rather than aesthetic aspiration. There’s no Pinterest board behind this apartment; there’s just two people trying to feel at home somewhere they’re not sure they belong.

Many pivotal sequences for BEEF Season 2 were lensed across Los Angeles, with Radford Studio Center at 4024 Radford Avenue in Studio City serving as the primary production location for interior sets like the apartment, which explains why the exterior and interior feel like they could be two different places, because they are.

5. Austin, Ashley, and Eunice’s Lunch Spot – Garden Wok, Tarzana, California

One of the season’s most uncomfortable scenes, and this show is not short on uncomfortable scenes, takes place at a lunch Ashley arranges with Eunice (Seoyeon Jang), Chairwoman Park’s interpreter and inner-circle gatekeeper. Ashley is trying to curry favor and establish an alliance; what she gets instead is a masterclass in politeness as social warfare.

The fictional restaurant is called China Bamboo House in the show, but the actual location is Garden Wok, a Chinese restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana, in the San Fernando Valley. It’s a real, functional restaurant – nothing like the pristine, expense-account dining spots you’d associate with the country club world, which is precisely why it works so well for this scene. The slightly casual setting undercuts Ashley’s attempts to perform sophistication, which is exactly what the scene needs.

Garden Wok is publicly accessible, which means yes, you can absolutely go eat there. If you find yourself in the San Fernando Valley and want to eat where the beef unfolded, Tarzana is worth the detour.

6. Pixie Grove Retreat – Agoura Hills, California

In a subplot that captures the millennial obsession with pastoral escape and “experiential” luxury, Josh and Lindsay visit a couples’ newly opened resort called Pixie Grove Retreat. They go ostensibly for inspiration, they want to transform their own home into a luxury bed and breakfast, but mostly, if we’re being honest, they go to feel superior. They expect to be unimpressed. They are not.

The sprawling, 100-acre property that leaves them speechless is actually set in the rolling canyon landscape of Agoura Hills, California – a community tucked into the Santa Monica Mountains between Thousand Oaks and Malibu. Agoura Hills has that specific SoCal quality of feeling genuinely wild and remote while being less than 40 miles from downtown Los Angeles. The oak-studded canyons and open grasslands give it a completely different energy from the manicured opulence of the country club scenes, which is exactly the point.

The Pixie Grove Retreat scenes represent the show at its most scenically seductive. The landscape almost steals the scene, which is saying something given that Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan are standing in it.

7. Chairwoman Park’s Mansion – Malibu, California

If you want to understand where Chairwoman Park sits in the food chain, look at her house. While the country club drips with old-money aesthetics, warm Spanish architecture, ivy, clay tiles, chandelier-lit dining rooms, her personal California residence is something else entirely: a brutally modern, glass-and-concrete oceanfront structure in Malibu that communicates power without saying a word.

Production designer Grace Yun was specific about the intention behind this choice. Park’s wealth, she explained, is “embedded in the architecture. It’s actually in the texture of the walls and in the flow of the space.” The club is the arena she owns; this house is who she is when no one’s watching, or rather, when everyone is watching on her terms.

The property is privately owned and sits along the Malibu coastline, accessible only by the road that runs along Pacific Coast Highway. You won’t get inside, but you can get close enough to appreciate the architecture and the setting, which, honestly, is half the point of Malibu anyway.

8. Troy’s “Park City” Ski Chalet – Thousand Oaks, California

In what might be the season’s most deliciously on-the-nose illustration of how the ultra-wealthy live, Troy (William Fichtner) – a Monte Vista Point member with seemingly limitless resources and a certain cavalier warmth that makes him deeply suspicious – whisks Josh off to Park City, Utah, on a private jet to cheer him up after his dachshund, Burberry, goes missing.

Once in Park City (or so the show tells us), they enjoy a private concert by British electronic band Hot Chip inside Troy’s lavish ski chalet. It’s the kind of gesture so casually extravagant it barely registers as unusual to the people doing it – which is the entire point. The sequence is meant to show how seamlessly the truly wealthy move through the world, treating geography as an inconvenience rather than a barrier.

In reality, neither Josh nor the Hot Chip performance ever left Southern California. The chalet scenes were filmed at a private estate in Thousand Oaks, California, a suburban city in Ventura County that, when dressed up correctly, apparently passes for a Utah mountain retreat. It’s a testament to production design how convincingly the interiors sell the altitude and the exclusivity.

9. Ojai Main Street – Ojai Avenue, Ojai, California

While Josh is off being helicopter’d between states, Lindsay is back in their fictional Ojai neighborhood, doing something far more mundane and far more human: searching for their missing dog on foot, posting flyers on telephone poles, and bumping into people she’d rather not see.

It’s in this setting – Ojai Avenue, specifically the stretch across from Libbey Park, that she runs into Austin and Ashley, also looking for Burberry. The chance meeting softens something between Ashley and Lindsay, and it’s one of the season’s quieter, more genuinely felt moments. The location earns a lot of that emotional credit.

Ojai Avenue is real, publicly accessible, and exactly as charming on camera as it is in person. The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture that runs along the shopping strip the, arched walkways, the low-slung storefronts, the mature trees is authentic Ojai, designated a historic district. Libbey Park, which sits right across the street, is a beloved public green space that hosts concerts, festivals, and the kind of lazy afternoon wandering the show uses to give its characters a moment to breathe.

If you’re visiting the filming locations of BEEF Season 2 in person, Ojai is the most satisfying stop because unlike the private country clubs and gated estates, Ojai Avenue is genuinely open to anyone. Walk the arcade, sit in the park, order something at one of the restaurants that line the street. It feels exactly like the show makes it look.

10. Troy’s SoCal Mansion – Mulholland Highway, Malibu, California

Troy, it turns out, has more than one impressive property because of course he does. In the Season 2 finale, Josh arrives at Troy’s Southern California home looking for assistance, and the stakes of that visit are matched by the drama of the location.

Location scouts searched through the hills above Malibu and settled on a home on Mulholland Highway, the winding, scenic road that traces the ridge of the Santa Monica Mountains between Calabasas and Malibu. The house exudes the kind of rugged California luxury that is somehow even more intimidating than the clean modernism of Park’s oceanfront property: it’s warm, masculine, impeccably situated, and deeply, quietly loaded.

Mulholland Highway is a public road and one of the great scenic drives in Southern California. While you obviously can’t knock on the door of Troy’s fictional mansion, the drive itself winding through the mountains with views stretching out to the ocean on one side and the Valley on the other, is absolutely worth doing. It’s the kind of road that reminds you why people pay absurd amounts of money to live near it.

11. The Seoul Hotel – Conrad Hotel, Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul, South Korea

The final act of BEEF Season 2 relocates the chaos to South Korea, and the transition is handled with the same visual precision as everything that came before it. When Lindsay, Ashley, Austin, and Ava (Mikaela Hoover) land in Seoul, they check into a hotel for a night of what the show calls in a line that lands like a threat – “heavily surveilled good sleep” before their visit to the mysterious Trochos facility.

Those scenes were filmed at the Conrad Hotel in the Yeongdeungpo District of Seoul, a luxury business hotel that opened in 2013 inside the IFC (International Finance Centre) tower complex on the banks of the Han River. The Conrad Seoul is exactly as sleek and slightly unnerving as the show makes it look.

Standard rooms measure 48 square metres, with unobstructed views of the Han River and the hotel features a signature spiral staircase up to the fifth floor that has been nicknamed “the staircase to heaven.” The hotel’s connection to the premium IFC shopping mall gives it, as one critic noted, a “first-class cosmopolitan feeling” which is precisely the vibe the production was after for this stretch of the season.

Additional portions of BEEF Season 2 were also shot in and around the Amorepacific World Headquarters at 100 Hangang-daero in Seoul’s Yongsan District, during the final phase of the shooting process in June 2025. Director Lee Sung Jin described shooting in Seoul as one of the most memorable parts of the production, particularly working alongside the Korean cast members.

Unlike most of the California locations in the show, the Conrad Hotel Seoul is fully open to the public. Rooms are bookable, the restaurants are open to non-guests, and the lobby alone that soaring spiral staircase included is worth the stop. If you’re planning a Seoul trip and want to do a proper BEEF pilgrimage, this is the one location where you can actually sleep where the cast slept.

12. Primary Studio Production – Radford Studio Center, Studio City, Los Angeles

Behind every exterior location is a studio, and for BEEF Season 2, that studio was Radford Studio Center at 4024 Radford Avenue in Studio City. The filming venue offers ample office space, green rooms, dressing rooms, multi-purpose rooms, and hair-and-makeup rooms, making it an ideal shooting site for all kinds of projects. Interior scenes, including Ashley and Austin’s apartment, various club interiors, and other controlled environments were built and filmed on the Radford lots.

Radford is one of Hollywood’s busiest independent studio facilities and has hosted dozens of major productions over the decades. It’s not open for public tours, but it sits in the middle of Studio City’s media corridor and has shaped the look of countless shows you’ve seen without ever knowing it.

Netflix’s Emmy-winning anthology series returned on April 16, 2026, with a brand-new story and a cast that somehow makes you want to root for everyone and no one at the same time. Creator and showrunner Lee Sung Jin has swapped out the chaotic road-rage energy of Season 1 for something a little more insidious – a pressure-cooker of class anxiety, quiet ambition, and very expensive bad behavior, all set inside and around an exclusive Southern California country club.

The new season follows four employees at Monte Vista Point Country Club: the newly engaged Ashley Miller (Cailee Spaeny) and Austin Davis (Charles Melton) – young, striving, and a little naive, and the unhappily married Joshua Martín (Oscar Isaac) and Lindsay Crane-Martín (Carey Mulligan), who are slowly losing their grip on everything they’ve built. Hovering above them all is the club’s mysterious new billionaire owner, Chairwoman Park (Youn Yuh-jung), whose arrival sets off a chain reaction of favors, manipulation, and spectacularly bad decisions.

BEEF Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. All eight episodes are available.

-by Paul Fogarty