Oregon just effectively banned single-family zoning
WRONG. Forcing communities of a certain size to accept multifamily building is NOT the same as banning single-family zoning. Curbed, you’re better than this…
Construction set to begin on Venice homeless shelter
Please address a specific point that I wrote with logical reasons as to why it’s wrong. ‘nope’ is not an argument. I’m not sure where it falls on Paul Graham’s disagreement hierarchy, but it may be DH3. Ideally you’d want to get to DH6.
As Red Hook’s industrial history is demolished, what comes next for the neighborhood?
I nearly held my breath while reading this article. Clearly there are not enough resourceful folks that understand and embrace the concept of sensitive adaptive reuse. Erasing "a sense of place" is often expedient to the Cherit Groups and DH Properties of the world but never necessary. They fail to envision or embrace a quality of life for it is all about the acquisition and feeding of revenue streams. Their addiction is society’s loss. The structures on Van Brunt Street are remarkable especially the one housing Fairway Market.
Although born in the east and accustomed to the the buildings on Wall Street that Paul Strand captured, I am grateful that the experience at age of six, walking with my father from the ferry to his office on Wall, informed my sensibility as well as the fine residential properties in New Jersey horse country where we lived. While currently on the opposite coast my heart aches for these as well as Admiral’s Row which tell such a broad American story. We are fortunate to have here in Faring Capital, a young visionary Jason Illoulian who is doing such work in his Robinson Lane project, preserving and repurposing a structure that has been a link to various important evolutions in the community. It is masterful.
Sexy midcentury modern by Thornton Ladd on the market for $1.6M in Whittier
We visited the home and it is stunning and a fantastic buy. Discover Whittier…There are some amazing buys and architectural gems hidden in College Heights and Friendly Hills. And yes…I can see Catalina, Long Beach and Newport Beach from our Mid Century in the hills here.
Swinging ’60s time capsule in Culver City asking $1.8M
That is a fantastic idea. Just don’t waste any time following through on it. The city council (in an effort led primarily by Paul Koretz and David Ryu and with followers on the council ) is STILL angling to ban as many people as they can from building ADUs , affordable housing and homeless crises and State law be damned. The latest estimate I’ve come across is that there are 17,494 homeless CHILDREN in the LAUSD system and our local government continues to work solely at the behest of the wealthy NIMBY’s and it is just sickening.