Real Estate
Summer book salute, party
It clearly was a “locals” party, with the featured guests all being authors from nearby and about 200 total viewers gathered around Zoom screens to learn about suggested summer reading, for kids, teens and adults. Billed as a salute to our local bookstore, Chevalier’s Books, as it slowly reopens, the host and moderator was John […]
On Preservation: Sacramento strikes back: with the many sons of failed SB 50
There is a maxim in politics that states, “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” a saying currently being amply exploited by our legislature in Sacramento. Under the cover of a global pandemic and civil unrest, once again State Sen. Scott Wiener, the maestro of failed SB 50, is trying to foist dodgy housing […]
On Books and Places: AME founder, former slave honored near Bradbury Building — site she once owned
Tucked into the neighborhood of the Grand Central Market and the Bradbury Building, the memorial honoring Bridget “Biddy” Mason isn’t a place most people go to. Rather, it’s one they come upon. Set just off Spring Street, it’s a quiet space — at least relative to the bustle surrounding it. The main feature of this […]
Real Estate Sales for May
Single-family homes 555 Rimpau Blvd. 525 N. Citrus Ave. 842 Muirfield Rd. 902 S. Highland Ave.623 N. Fuller Ave. 7315 Oakwood Ave. 4056 W. 7th St. 532 N. Irving Blvd. 633 N. Cahuenga Blvd. 7257 Oakwood Ave. 358 N. Bronson Ave. $4,900,0002,300,0002,235,0001,770,0001,700,0001,439,0001,350,0001,340,8881,250,0001,126,000975,000 Condominiums 5123 Clinton St.5125 Clinton St. 4925 Wilshire Blvd., #2035019 Maplewood […]
Real Estate Sales for April
Single-family homes 111 S. Hudson Ave. 542 Lorraine Blvd. 635 Seward St. 446 N. Citrus Ave. 147 N. Windsor Blvd. 800 S. Windsor Blvd. 446 S. Highland Ave. 202 N. Gower St. 825 S. Muirfield Rd. 552 N. Bronson Ave. 608 Lillian Way 636 N. Gramercy Pl. 509 N. St. Andrews Pl. $5,600,000 5,510,000 2,720,000 […]
Local lawmaker pushes for denser housing: Assemblyman Bloom has two bills
Following the defeat of SB 50, and its predecessor SB 827 — controversial bills that would have preempted local control of zoning — California politicians have returned to the drawing board. Among them, local Assemblyman Richard Bloom, who has a constituency that stretches from Santa Monica to Larchmont Village, has sponsored two housing-related bills that […]
