Tag: Wilshire Park

Metro to seek builder for housing at Crenshaw site

Metro to seek builder for housing at Crenshaw site

| November 28, 2024 | 0 Comments

Community supports needed apartments Beginning in the late 1980s, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) began assembling approximately 10 parcels of land on the southwest corner of Wilshire Boulevard, between Lorraine and Crenshaw boulevards. Metro ultimately used this land to create a staging area for contractors working on the “D“ (formerly Purple) Line […]

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Ridgewood Place, St. Andrew’s Square were just designated

Ridgewood Place, St. Andrew’s Square were just designated

| November 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

It is my distinct honor to announce that Greater Wilshire has two new official historic districts to add to its collection. The California State Historic Resources Commission on Nov. 3 approved for inclusion on the California Register of Historical Resources the St. Andrew’s Square Historic District and the Ridgewood Place Residential Historic District. This is […]

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Neighborhoods under threat, say homeowners

Neighborhoods under threat, say homeowners

| October 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

Los Angeles’ residential, tree-lined streets have long been a treasured part of our city. But, according to local homeowners groups, those streets are under threat by a state-mandated City of Los Angeles rezoning plan that would allow construction of four- to five-story buildings next to single-family homes. Under its draft plan, the city is proposing […]

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Wilshire Park Association Halloween Haunt

| October 30, 2021

Wilshire Park Association Halloween Haunt, Bronson Ave. between Wilshire Blvd. and 9th St., 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., wilshirepark.org.

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Haunted holidays came early for Wilshire Park neighbors

Haunted holidays came early for Wilshire Park neighbors

| September 30, 2020 | 0 Comments

Halloween came early this year to Wilshire Park. In lieu of its annual Halloween Haunt, the neighborhood kicked off the season with an “in-your-own-front-yard” picnic and a scavenger hunt. And residents opened a ghoulish storefront, d’See’s, as in “deceased,” said Wilshire Park Association (WPA) board member Lorna Hennington. WPA Treasurer Roberta O’Donnell researched the history […]

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Warner Henry, remembered: Local luminary, a founder of LA Opera, died Aug. 1

Warner Henry, remembered: Local luminary, a founder of LA Opera, died Aug. 1

| September 2, 2020 | 0 Comments

He was a larger-than-life personality, a man of dramatic contrasts. His favorite artists were Claude Monet and Hieronymus Bosch. He was a connoisseur of the world’s finest wines, but his favorite meal included meat loaf. His always-ready wit and sense of humor covered a very deep seriousness, like his preferred president, Ronald Reagan. In his […]

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