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@STARCHY: Uh aren’t purchases equal to sales.

Starchy, you always repeat the same thing like some wind up doll. Your argument has been literally destroyed for years now (Redfin anyone?) because it’s so daft. Yet you just keep saying the ol thing. What’s the crusade about? Besides I already said your "argument" above which you just went ahead and repeated. The problem is you just repeat it without ever taking anyone’s (supported by data) arguments into perspective, so it’s simply useless to even discuss.

Duh, crazy low interest rates, lowest in history, are by definition not normal. It’s just a ridiculous argument to make. Historically 8.25 is probably something like a median although I don’t have hard data on that. Hell, I would go for anything above 6 at this point.

Here is the VERY EASY ARGUMENT TO MAKE. If someone buying a house at 4% or something wants or has to sell it for the same price in the future and rates are then 6% who are they going to sell it to? Someone with a lot more money? Because it will cost quite a bit more on a monthly basis. Gentrification as I said above will mitigate this and quite a bit in some cases by making the area more attractive to wealthier buyers, but there is risk, and not every area is a gentrifying area. Woodland Hills is just Woodland Hills. Highland Park has gentrified and continues to exponentially. Two different things that will have a different relationship to future prices.

This is really just common sense.

I wish I saw this blog stream a few days ago. A healthy exchange between Woodland Hills residents might have begun.

Three subjects:

Vons: I was amazed by how shoddy, understocked and mismanaged the Von’s location began. I’m glad they closed up shop. Vons ran that locatiion to the ground and it was an insult on all residents who were once loyal to the store. Few people who live near the former Von’s will travel as far as east-of-Winnetka to pick up a gallon of milk at the new location. Is the 99 cents store at the new Von’s location closing?

Multiple markets: What does Henrys have that Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Ralph’s Fresh Fare doesn’t have? I don’t understand the marketing rationale of placing four major market locations on a Ventura Boulevard stretch that is only three quarters of a mile. Truthfully, when it is time for me to do some serious food shopping, I’ll go to the one true supermarket in the area: Ralph’s. The other locations — though unique and with lots of shopping options — are specialty markets.

Prices: With all of these shopping options now, does anyone here know if Henry’s has better priced selections (particularly fruit and vegetables) than, let’s say, Whole Foods and Ralph’s?

I will at least admit that our Woodland Hills district must be well thought of by corporate bigwigs. The Henry’s people must believe our area is affluent and densely populated enough to support this new venture. Does anyone else have any thoughts about this?

@Rubes: "Heck rename the whole line after a pet store or AEG if it means that they will fund grade separation throughout the Expo line."

"We need to get from Santa Monica to Woodland Hills. How do we do that on the train?"

"It’s simple: Take the Pepsi Line to the Time Warner Cable 7th/Metro Station. There, you’ll transfer to the Hewlett Packard Line – don’t get on the Quizno’s Line, which takes you to Koreatown – to the LiveNation North Hollywood Station, then ride the Bank of America Line all the way to the GoDaddy.com Station at Warner Center."

Light Rail is (or was) the solution. I grew up in Chatsworh, Canoga Park and Woodland Hills for 20 years. There have been commercial trains along Canoga and down Victory and Oxnard for decades.

Unfortunately about 8-ish years ago, they stopped using the tracks. They tore out and paved the tracks along Victory/Oxnard and started selling off parts of the land to the business along Canoga. So now, the once fully train-permitted, signalled, and travelled tracks are unusable for about half of the 4 mile Canoga stretch.

The Orange line should have used the existing tracks. What a tragic waste of tax dollars tearing up something to put something inferior in its place.

The valley deserves the proper rail lines like the rest of the city!

So, all the people who would use the theater are "sterile suburban yuppie types"? No way. They might have money, but most of the "sterile suburban" types don’t live in the Historic Core. Either they stay in Woodland Hills, or West L.A., or if they do move downtown, they buy a new construction loft in South Park, and probably don’t go anywhere near Skid Row.

Most people using the theater wouldn’t care about punk rockers making noise, and according to the article, they put up some thick concrete walls to keep out the noise.

The Smell is cool, and I would love them to stay, even if I’m too old to go there. They really add that East Village vibe to Downtown, which was much needed after Al’s Bar closed down.

To #13 and others regarding Whole Foods combining the two locations into one:
A new location is under construction in Tarzana around Yolanda as part of Village Walk, with pictures on the Gruen website. Will also house a s/bux, etc. Opening late this year, maybe.
WFM wants to develop a store like the new Pasadena store, so maybe the Barone’s site might work.
While different markets, sort of, one location would allow for getting the most merchandise at one spot, rather than having two units with much overlapping merchandise. I go to Woodland Hills or Glendale for things not available in either S/O location, or even wait until I get into the 323 or 310 area and shop there.

1. I actually saw hookers in Woodland Hills, of all places, on two separate occasions last week.

2. You know where I’ve seen the most, though? Waikiki. Seriously, it’s crawling with them.

3. Yeah, I’ve enjoyed all 7 of the places on this guy’s list that I’ve visited. It’s all about managing your expectations. If you expect a big city to not have its flaws, well, sorry dude. What are these guys expecting? I’m sure this guy’s top ten are mostly little hidden destinations that aren’t full of tourists, where their native guide gave them an "authentic" experience that makes them superior to all the proles going to Orlando. Whoop de do. Face it, some places are tourist attractions for a reason.

4. That being said, nothing can prepare you for how underwhelming Plymouth Rock is. Seriously, it’s just a boulder the size of a car engine sitting in the sand.

I’ve lived in Sherman Oaks for twenty years. I’m just south of Van Nuys, but I like the easy access to the 101, the quick commute to work (15 minutes to Woodland Hills to arrive by 6:30), and the wider streets in the Valley. No, I don’t like the heat, but there are always trade offs. I’d stay along the 101 corridor, though, because Van Nuys and North Hollywood still aren’t great, as these photos show. I’m not sure why anyone would think that urban blight is something to romanticize; it’s not like you can patronize a business that shut down twenty years ago. I’m always amused by how many people don’t even know that most of the Valley is actually part of the City of Los Angeles. What doesn’t amuse me is how the Valley has been shortchanged on services compared to the taxes we pay. That’s what we should really be talking about and addressing.

homeless people all over the place is our new reality. there are millions teetering on the verge of financial calamity in this country, millions also abusing various substances (alcohol and drugs) which make them very undesirable as employees. little by little we are looking more and more like a third world country and eventually we will have big shanty towns like you see in Brazil, South Africa and spots all over the world. our overall capitalistic system which creates great income disparity coupled with a growing population and competition for housing etc is all part of this. So get used to it or move to suburban locations where homeless people won’t go because pan handling isn’t as easy there. Woodland Hills, Irvine, places like that.

How can you change modes of transportation if there are no other feasible, reliable modes available to you? How is someone in Westchester, Playa Vista or Venice, Pacific Palisades supposed to get downtown? Or Woodland Hills, Calabassas, Sylmar, Chatsworth? Or San Pedro and Rancho Palos Verdes? Less than 5% of the county of LA lives within 1/2 mile of a rail line and bus service is not feasible or reliable. You are asserting a false assumption that there are other modes of transportation that can be used in lieu of a car in order to support your claim that people can just "switch modes" and "adapt". Based on actual examples of road diets in LA, the way people adapt is by driving their cars on residential streets to avoid the congestion caused by the road diets.