John Welborne · November 28, 2024
Our city needs builders to construct more units of housing, at all price levels, throughout the city, but especially units that are more affordable as well as units in buildings that provide continuing supportive services for residents who formerly may have experienced homelessness. As our local community has seen in the case of Pio Franco […]
John Welborne · September 26, 2024
In late September, the owner of the three-story Brookside office building at 4750 Wilshire Blvd. announced it had completed the conversion of the top two floors of the building into 68 luxury apartment residences. Leasing has commenced. Construction took about two years. The Los Angeles Department of City Planning approved the project in July 2022, […]
John Welborne · August 30, 2018
As first reported in the Larchmont Chronicle in May this year, the CIM Group development at and around the former Farmers Insurance tower is now proposed to be entirely residential. Drawings showing “before and after” concepts for the project’s site plan were shared with neighbors at the Brookside Homeowners Association summer community meeting at Memorial branch […]
John Welborne · August 3, 2017
After more than a decade of neighbors’ complaints, cleanup is underway at the unsightly house at 610 S. Van Ness Ave. Surrounded by palm-frond fences, the derelict structure adjoins two lots previously filled with a collection of rusty old cars. In mid-July, demolition of the house finally was underway. When the three lots have been […]
John Welborne · December 29, 2016
The Park Mile Design Review Board on Dec. 22 voted to recommend to the city planning director that he approve the proposed 12-unit townhouse condominium project on Van Ness Ave., between Sixth St. and Wilshire Blvd. The project is being developed by Michael Winter at the site of the long-derelict house and parking lots at […]
John Welborne · September 29, 2016
For at least two decades, activist Windsor Square neighbor Margaret Sowma complained to the city about unauthorized construction at 610 S. Van Ness Ave., just across the street from her Van Ness townhouse condominium south of Sixth St. and north of Fire Station 29. The across-the-street owner even hand-built a third floor of some sort […]
