A vacant grocery store next to the I-405 Freeway in Palms will get a new occupant after sitting empty for more than eight years.
3443 Sepulveda BoulevardGoogle Street View
An application submitted recently to the City of Los Angeles indicates that Whole Foods will be the new occupant of the approximately 38,000-square-foot building at 3443 S. Sepulveda Boulevard, which sits at the intersection of Sepulveda's intersection with Palms Boulevard. The property was previously home to an Albertsons, which vacated the premises in 2016.
Reliable Properties, which owns the building and surrounding parking lot, had once sought entitlements to redevelop the land with a mixed-use, 409-unit apartment complex.
Here's what we're reading this week:
Why the Catholic church plans to develop affordable housing in LA, and how they aim to do it "The Archdiocese of L.A. announced Wednesday it will partner with a newly formed nonprofit called Our Lady Queen of Angels Housing Alliance to develop affordable housing in Southern California." (LAist)
Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row "Juma is among a wave of unhoused people who have moved from Skid Row into interim and permanent housing over the last year. It is all part of a $280-million county initiative to house more than 2,500 people, boosting health, drug treatment and related services in the 50-block neighborhood that has become synonymous with poverty and homelessness." (LA Times)
Purple Line extensionMetro
Eyes on the Street: Metro D Line Extension Sites Looking Like Stations "D Line extension Section 1 - four new miles of subway - is over 91 percent complete and will open in late 2025" (Streetsblog LA)
No-car Games: Los Angeles Olympic venues will only be accessible by public transportation "Bass said public transportation will be the only way to access the Los Angeles venues, and her plan to address traffic snarls consists of both using 3,000 buses that will be borrowed from all over the country and asking businesses to allow their employees to work from home during the 17-day period." (AP)
This Orange County city has the hottest housing market in the country TL;DR It's Irvine (LA Times)
Route for the August 18 CicLAviaCicLAvia
The Militant’s Epic CicLAvia Tour LIV!!!! "After a July hiatus, CicLAvia is back for the 54th-ever and the 5th of 2024. We return to Hollywood Boulevard, our city’s most renowned thoroughfare and one of the most famous streets in the entire world." (Militant Angeleno)
California lawmakers advance bill that explores East L.A. cityhood "The full Legislature will still need to vote on the bill before it can head to the governor’s desk" (Boyle Heights Beat)
Bond voyage: Supporters yank California’s largest-ever affordable housing measure "The change of heart was born out of concerns about the public’s appetite for costly new measures, a pending lawsuit against the regional bond, and worry about another ballot measure, Proposition 5. That statewide constitutional amendment would make it easier to pass local and regional affordable housing and infrastructure bonds by lowering the electoral threshold for victory from the current high bar of two-thirds down to 55%." (CalMatters)
The Twenty-Eight by '28 initiativeMetro
The countdown is on for the 2028 Olympics. Here's where LA stands on key transit projects "Of the original 28 designs, 18 are still on course to be completed before the Olympics, but 10 are anticipated to open after 2028, as of a March Metro report." (LAist)
A Peek into Metro Rail Ridership Details Station-by-Station "7th/Metro is an insane workhorse. I believe these numbers make it the highest ridership transit station in the U.S. west of the Mississippi (only BART's Embarcadero station rivals it)." (Streetsblog LA)
BREAKING NEWS: Multiple Bids Submitted for DTLA’S Unfinished Oceanwide Plaza MXU "Industry sources familiar with the sale process told Connect that AEG Worldwide was rumored to be the front runner and had gone as far as retaining the project’s original architect. The development site is proximate to AEG’s LA Live and Crypto.com Arena, which have faced strong competition from the Hollywood Park mega-development in nearby Inglewood. However, AEG was not among the bidders who submitted offers on Thursday." (Connect)
Oceanwide Plaza prior to the stop of constructionHunter Kerhart Architectural Photography
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