Opponents voice concerns over 5th District housing "Yaroslavsky and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attended the community meeting, along with approximately 100 people, at the synagogue at 10345 W. Pico Blvd. They were outlining the interim housing proposal when a group began booing and jeering. A video filmed by an unnamed person in the crowd shows the disruption. The video was posted on social media by Westside For Everyone, a volunteer grassroots group working for more inclusive housing on the Westside. Some of the opponents wore blue tape over their mouths to illustrate that they feel they were being silenced." (Beverly Press)
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Los Angeles Skyscraper, Unfinished and for Sale, Draws Potential Buyers — And New Ideas "Potential investors have speculated about a range of new uses they'd want to see at Oceanwide Plaza, with some buyers suggesting the condos need to be converted into apartments, and the multifamily units need to be smaller than the current size plan for the condos, the people familiar with the talks said. The retail component, too, has been mulled for different uses, including residential, by potential investors after demand shifted for that property type as more consumers turned to online shopping in the pandemic." (CoStar)
Op-Ed: Stop worrying, NIMBYS — affordable housing shouldn’t squash your property values "Los Angeles is a city historically segregated by race and class. But in our slice of the city, multimillionaires in newly built villas live side by side with the affordable apartments of the people who clean their pools, watch their children and cook their El Pollo Loco orders....My family’s neighborhood may be an outlier — or moving inexorably toward full gentrification — but at least for the last three decades, it has also served as vibrant proof that the notion that affordable housing lowers property values is overblown, if not flat-out wrong." (LA Times)
Sprouts market headed for Echo Park "A spokeswoman for the Phoenix-based company said the 20,000-square-foot store is slated to open next year." (Eastsider)
View of the Rocketdyne site in Warner Center, 1960Wikimedia Commons
Mall of America Owner Walks Away From Deal To Buy Massive Los Angeles Property "The roughly 47-acre Canoga Ave. plot is being marketed for sale again, according to marketing materials. The site, located in the master-planned neighborhood and business district, Warner Center, went under contract in 2018 to sell to Canada-based Triple Five Group for $150 million. The property has undergone many proposed uses over the years and was once pitched for Amazon's second headquarters." (CoStar)
Inside the California African American Museum’s $5-million, ‘momentum’-fueled upgrades "After such a long closure, CAAM wanted to reopen its doors with a bang, programmatically. The five new exhibitions fill five gallery spaces and the atrium. One group show features contemporary painting, sculpture, multimedia and installation works; two are historical exhibitions; there’s a short film and a solo presentation of large-scale wheat pasted drawings." (LA Times)
Federal Lawsuit Against LA County Over Failures To Address Homeless Crisis Will Now Go To Trial "The case is the second phase of a lawsuit that originally focused on the city of L.A. City officials settled last year — agreeing to create nearly 13,000 shelter beds and apartments for the city’s unhoused people by 2027. A city report last week estimated that to meet that, an additional 5,000 beds are needed beyond what is already planned." (LAist)
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Long Beach Mayor proposes an amphitheater near the Queen Mary—which makes perfect cultural sense "Directing the City Manager in his budget to look at the feasibility of an amphitheater that would have the DTLB skyline and water as its backdrop is almost serendipitous because the live outdoor music scene in SoCal has seen a massive shakeup: In a startling political battle, the Irvine city council ultimately shut down Live Nation’s proposal to build a massive amphitheater in Grand Park after four hours of public comment largely derided the proposal due to potential noise impacts in the neighborhood." (Longbeachize)
Will Downtown El Monte be Reshaped by Complete Streets? "El Monte is studying designs for a complete streets project that would create crosstown bike lanes on Valley Boulevard, and pedestrianize Main Street's Valley Mall, where businesses are expressing concerns over potential removal of storefront parking" (Streetsblog LA)
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