How the hell do you write an article about 90’s LA on film without mentioning Heat (1995)???!!!!
That film covered all of LA – downtown, South Bay (brand new Green Line station!), Hollywood Hills, the Valley, South LA, LAX, the Ports, City of Industry, Santa Monica (old Hennessy & Ingalls and Broadway Deli!)
The entire movie is a time capsule. It captures the last moment when LA was still for the middle class as opposed to whatever it has turned into now.
Map shows which LA neighborhoods might be impacted by California transit density bill
Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, El Segundo, and Redondo Beach are all separate cities and not part of Los Angeles. If we could have at least a county-wide plan those cities would be included. Also, think about places like Bradbury and San Marino which are also separate cities in L.A. County.
"director Garry Marshall’s Pretty Woman served up an impossible fairytale about a fresh-scrubbed Hollywood Boulevard sex worker who hops in the right Ferrari and becomes a Rodeo Drive princess virtually overnight."
How do you know they are ‘broke’? Are you the treasurer? If they are having financial troubles someone in the legitimate film community should step up to fund such a important asset to the community. Not everything is about money and the price of real estate. If Netflix honestly wanted to do a civic favor they could purchase the venerable Warner, (Pacific), Theater on Hollywood Blvd. and restore it.
Strongly agree – I think the Pacific Theatre, just a few blocks down on Hollywood Boulevard, has tremendous potential and would be a perfect fit. I also like the suggestion of the Westlake and some of the movie palaces downtown like the Los Angeles Theatre would work as well.
LA is overpriced. We live in the Hills and there are several houses for sale on our street, nothing is moving. Of course the owners start out with crazy prices…
New Arts District office building working toward mid-2021 opening
Sick of all these developers ruining the valley. I moved to the valley to escape the crowds and traffic of Hollywood. The Valley used to be where families could move to and live in neighborhoods. They are now trying to turn the valley into Hollywood. The streets here have become so crowded. Magnolia Blvd in Noho cannot support all the traffic and as a result has become over congested.
Map shows which LA neighborhoods might be impacted by California transit density bill
Taking city planning away from the city (as corrupt as it is in LA) is a recipe for catastrophe and mass displacement. For the millionth time- LUXURYHOUSINGDISPLACESPEOPLE. Shitty construction displaces people, too. How will they know a building has been vacant or unrented for seven years? Developers already lobbied for our public utilities to stop keeping track of vacancy rates. This is a very convenient plan by developer-owned Weiner to push more luxury housing on populations who can ill afford to move, decimate rent-stabilized housing, and deprive poor neighborhoods of the luxury of single-family housing. If you think #%^*ing Beverly Hills will develop because of this bill, you’re delusional. That’s where the g-damn developers writing this shit live.
Map shows which LA neighborhoods might be impacted by California transit density bill
Horrible for LA City in that it will leave large portions of LA City untouched, and by effectively upzoning Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, El Segundo, Redondo Beach, and a few other low density wealthy areas; it will reduce demand that is currently gentrifying LA.
What IS good for LA? If the Santa Monica cliffs collapsed tomorrow, and the entire City of Santa Monica was flooded permanently, all those jobs and wealthy residents would have little option but to relocate to LA City. Increasing the tax base and making the city more vibrant and sustainable. It would probably push out 50 thousand low income tenants, but it would be GREAT for the city.
The perspective rendering looking west from the center of Wilshire says everything about how awfull this design is. It looks like a two stack of Swedish pancakes and if the museum goes under they can convert it for use by proctologists and dentists and/or psychiatric offices.
And if it implodes in an earthquake, there goes the Purple Line and the head of the Bev Hills board of education can then go out and buy a new vibrator and celebrate.