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Lovely space, horrific staging, and high HOAs. Too heavy on the silver / grey. For God’s sake, put a natural plant somewhere.

Folks may believe there is no potential in the area however they are missing the silver lining. With the increased Latino population LAUSD has had to nearly triple the schools here in the past 10 years.

Larger numbers of residents have meant higher property values, higher rents, as well as need for additional retail outlets. There have been a few other decent size developments in South Los Angeles that have opened in recent years.

I don’t think this complex is meant to attract anyone from the West Side or be connected to any gentrification for that matter. The Latino population increase and the purchasing power they bring with it will sustain it. I doubt you will see any high end type stores as one poster mentioned in a Gucci. I don’t think the complex will need them to thrive. I believe it will attract your run of the mill middle income national outlets and will be successful.

@in_da_valley: That’s NOT the Eastside. Call it Echo Park or Silver Lake, but not the Eastside.

My partner and I live in Los Feliz and have had our "cabin" in Big Bear Lake for 6 years, we love it and use more often than we ever thought we would. As soon as we cross over the dam, we feel the weight of our busy life lifted from our shoulders.

Check out Boulder Bay and the west side of BBL, it’s stunningly beautiful, quaint and peaceful. A place where everybody knows their neighbors… Also, for some reason it gets better snow that other areas of BBL.

 I have always said, "Big Bear Lake is So Cal’s best kept secret". I guess it’s not that much of a secret anymore…

Word to the wise, great eateries are totally lacking in BBL. We do eat Saucy Mamma’s pizza all the time, it’s good.

For decent food and great drinks, which is about as good as Big Bear Lake offers (for now), try the new Big Bear Brewery or Social in the village. If you are a real foodie, you’ll want to cook at home (which is what we do most often).

@HeinzHummer: echo park and silver lake need a train.

Here’s a great site for more information on current and historical sales prices and $/sqft in Big Bear Lake: http://bigbearteam.com/big-bear-real-estate-blog/

Silver Lake keeps getting whiter.

1909 and L.A.’s City Beautiful Movement: Joseph Mesmer decided to green the L.A. River and John Parkinson drew up the plan -
"This work, when completed, will be the crowning undertaking of his life (Mesmer). No other work could be projected that will have such beneficial results and mean so much to the City of Los Angeles. The transforming of the most unsightly sight of the city into a beautiful park, lakes and esplanades. See the impression the visitor will get upon his arrival in the city when he beholds this picture of artistic picturesqueness and beauty, also being a park six miles long in the center of the city. Consider the pleasure that will be afforded to thousands of our own people where they can enjoy their outing and recreation in walking over beautiful laid serpentine walks amidst shady trees, beautiful shrubs and flowers, while others enjoy the pleasures of boating, sailing and swimming in the six lakes – each 3,000 feet long averaging in depth from two to fifteen feet."

The two railroads paralleling the river had committed themselves to help underwrite the cost of construction. The Salt Lake Railroad soon suffered financial losses and pulled out of its commitment. The plan went up in smoke. A series of lakes would have extended from the Arroyo Seco south to Washington Boulevard. Mesmer, the son of L.A.‘s first baker had been sent to Paris as a boy, spent several years at a boarding school and later became L.A.’s foremost proponent of civic beautification.

@LA MapNerd: Map Dude: you’re not getting the point. A freak 150 year or more event will wipe out what you speak of, plus a hell of a lot MORE. Overflow and impoundment capacity would be puny.

The event of 1825 pushed a wall of debris along its front wave such that the debris caused a dam to form at the Dominguez Narrows (n.w. of Rancho Los Cerritos). A huge inland lake then formed. That lake slowly drained away in the following weeks and all of the horses, sheep and cattle that had been caught in the flood lay rotting, dinner time for Turkey Vultures. Thousands upon thousands of dead animals.

For many millennia preceding that flood, there had never been one river channel connecting the coastline at (present) Wilmington and the L.A. Valley (betwixt Bunker Hill ridge and Boyle Heights). The flow of the river south of the present downtown area had spread out and divided up into a vast system of swamps and tules, covering over two hundred square miles of the lowlands.

Many eons ago, previous to uplift along the Dominguez – Baldwin Hills fault, there had existed a single channel of the Rio Porciuncula running south and then southwest thru present Torrance and Redondo Beach. Runoff along this channel (during one or more ice ages) caused a deep canyon to form below the present coast line – right out from beyond the pier at Redondo (when the sea level was much lower). Warning: if a large enough portion of a side of that submarine canyon were ever to collapse, a tsunami possibly HUNDREDS of feet high would overwhelm the coastline within minutes.

If not for J.J. Warner, all memory of the 1825 event would have been lost to history.

Vernon is the new Silver Lake.