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@doug94550:

At least for the next few decades I’ll give you that we’re going to win on clean-air up here in the bay area, though I think LA will get there eventually.

But LA I met some of the nicest most generous people I’ve ever known, and other people who’ve moved up here from LA agree. Yeah, people are nice up in the Bay too, but to say people are nicer doesn’t ring true with my experience. Clearly 20 years can make a difference on a place.

And you won’t have people moving up to the bay area to start families anymore. Sorry, but it’s just way too expensive up here.

Try to find a family-friendly 2-bedroom for under $3,500/mo or $1 million today that isn’t in the outer rings of SF suburbia, be prepared throw your hat in the lottery with a bunch of other people who are just upping their bids.

Perception is an amazing thing. My wife and I are both Native Angelenos. We escaped from L.A. in 1995 and wound up living in Wine Country about 50 miles southeast of San Francisco. We raised our daughter here. There is not a chance that we would ever return to Los Angeles. Here, the people are friendlier, the air is cleaner, the water tastier. Now I will give L.A. one thing. It is the best place to start a career, no matter what your field is. But once you have established yourself, get out and go live.

This property is not in Bel-Air, which was originally the Danziger Estate before the Alphonso Bell syndicate bought it in 1922. The Morago area was part of the 22,000 acre Santa Monica Mountain Park ranch, that was purchased later by Bell and his associates. This location is the entrance to Hogg canyon and is believed to be where the Portola expedition stopped in 1769, which was marked with a granite marker in 1946 by the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and can still be found at the beginning of the Morago Drive Parkway.

This is a big Air bnb play. Kick out Los Angelenos and the culture they foster for a quick buck and some drive by tourists and corporate housing. This housing boom will be the death of whats left of our neighborhood communities & culture in this city if these kind of unethical actions are allowed to take place by our city governments.

Do I sniff trolls from the new owner/developer? @Cleo, @NewUrbanist anyone? There’s a certain smell in the air…

Question for CatholicBloc, armchair boogie and Ghetto Urchin:

Have any of you ever been to Europe? How about outside of California or even L.A.?

If you have been to Europe for example, and someone asks you where you’re from, tell them you’re from L.A. and see the reaction you get.

I’m not gonna ruin it by telling you what THE EXACT SAME REACTION is that you’d get no matter what part of Europe you’re in..but I’ll give you a hint.

It goes against everything you know-it-alls think you know about L.A.

So before you think you’ve safely pegged L.A., leave your mother’s basements for a while to air out AND to get some fresh perspective on this WORLD CLASS city..muthaf

I’m going with the Financial District. This is the year the F.D. started to grow out of its 9-5 only personality. It is now becoming a true 24/7 area. It doesn’t hurt that the Korean Air building broke ground, which will dramatically alter the Los Angeles skyline.

@E.W.: I’m pretty certain the western Bel Air border is the 405, so yes, it would be Bel Air.

Is this really considered Bel Air?! More like Bel Air adjacent.

(I am another owner in the building)

I do not believe the owners of 303 are new, or flippers, and while the racial comments being made here are wildly inappropriate, they are also incorrect. Sales in the building happen infrequently.

@uncool: The cement floors have been refinished, but are original. During the hotel era (c1899-1925) there was carpeting over the cement, but to our knowledge, cement floors are an integral part of many apartments during the trust and condo era (1926-present).

@sroche: Most tile in the bathroom photo shown here appears to be original. Note that the bathroom in 303 dates from the conversion in the 1920s (note the air shaft window), not the hotel era. The sink looks original to the 1920s conversion. The tub has, unfortunately, been replaced, but even these, in the 1920s-era bathrooms, were tiled in. The claw-foot tubs seen in some other units are original, to my knowledge, only to the 1899 bathrooms from the hotel era.

The metal hardware appears to largely be the original black superheated-steam-treated iron, though some things have unfortunately been replaced. The woodwork looks largely restored and not particularly damaged, though the grain patterns in some places concern me; this is with the exception of the glass doors, which are likely modern, but at least match the original woodwork. There has been much worse: previous owners of my unit sanded and cut away all the woodwork detail in the kitchen and put some sort of white veneer over it, making my efforts to restore my kitchen to its original condition considerably more complicated; they also painted over all other woodwork, which at least left it undamaged.

The fireplace looks like it might have an original conversion-era insert (they were never real fireplaces).

The problem here is with the furnishings, the blinds, and the lights. If you take all the furniture, drapes, and so on out of a unit in Castle Green, and put in a few modern pieces of furniture, it will look pretty modern and, at least in my opinion, rather ugly.

#ChickenBoyFan: are you referring to Pasadena Heritage, or the Pasadena Museum of History? PMH has archives on the building but is not involved in it at all. The building itself actually has strict guidelines on conservation and restoration, but didn’t a few decades ago, and we’re more lenient on changes to elements that were destroyed back then.

Pasadena Heritage has a conservation easement on the exterior of the building, but in recent years has not seemed particularly concerned about the interiors of units, instead focusing on other buildings and particularly the threat that planned major new development on the west side of the block poses to Castle Green as a whole—the thing that people should be worrying about. What this listing does not say is that, being on the west side of the building, its windows could soon look out onto the wall of a giant, modern apartment building, which will block