@ed: Even with huge amounts of money to retrofit the stadium, they still can’t cram in enough luxury boxes. That, and the real 800-pound gorilla of Los Angeles football, USC, has too much control over the Coliseum for the NFL’s liking. It is a shame, especially since the Coliseum will be right on a light rail line next year.
@JDRCRASHER: Why won’t people want to take the bus? Well, have you ever tried to tailgate on a bus? And besides, the bus ride to the stadium from anywhere further out than Pomona or Covina will be longer than the actual game.
lafayette park is one of my favorite places to play soccer! who cares if it’s a dustbowl. it’s filled with people all evening long, and it one of the easiest places to find a game and get to know your neighbors. and as for baseball fields – well, they put down two in bellevue park that sit unused 98% of the time (i kid you not – most of the year, they sit unused). they are surrounded by "no soccer" signs in spanish, too. by the way, soccer makes more money for the city that any sport besides golf. so, ed fuentes, next time you play baseball under night lights, remember that it’s your futboling neighbors who are paying that electric bill!
if that is the case, yes, they gambled and lost. it’s good they’re saving their marriage but they did overextend and sympathy can only go so far when you take a risk that fails….
cautionary tale: don’t buy more than you can afford; have savings for a rainy day; don’t drink the kool-aid that buying a home is the ticket to near term equity wealth…it ain’t no matter how much the realtors and denialist blabber on about bitter renters and extol their self-perceived sense of superiority..what a joke…either way, good luck to the s-lake couple.
maybe this is the ed mcmahon approach to selling your home…kudos if it works
Ok fine. You want my honest opinion and you will get it.
Personally, I would not invest in that area. I have close friends who invested in Echo Park during the early 90’s and early 00’s. They made a killing. .The homes they own are worth five times what they bought them for. This is not the time to invest
I would not even contemplate touching that house for less than 400,000. I think down the road 550,000 might just be a reasonable price if Echo Park continues to improve.
Nearly 700 grand, no thank you. I wish whoever bought that house the best of luck, but I don’t think it’s worth it.
Last Ditch Effort to Save Lautner's Threatened Shusett House
Dear Ed-
There are perhaps not many, but some people who are willing to compromise convenience and comfort for fine architecture. It is understandable that this house is not ideal for the owners. But why not sell it to someone who understands it and is willing to live with its idiosyncracies rather than obliterate it? Surely there are numerous homes in Beverly hills that deserve to be torn down. It seems very spoiled and willfull to destroy something that others highly appreciate simply because one can. Certainly moving to a new home that suitd their needs would be easier, cheaper and less time consuming than obliterating a Lautner to build another cookie cutter McMansion.
Will Otters Be Picketing Outside BP Habitat at the Long Beach Aquarium?
@guest #2:
Self righteous duplicity is a many splendored thing. Anyone who drives a gasoline powered automobile, let alone using petro based products, is complicit in these types of environmental catastrophes. The same way cocaine users are complicit in Latin American drug violence and U.S. taxpayers are complicit in American military endeavors. We all want the buck to stop with someone else. And when newspapers weigh in on environmental issues, disingenuous reaches a fever pitch After all, how many corporate entities are bigger enemies of Green, than a printed on trees, delivered by Big Trucks, daily newspaper. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not Ed Begley, but then again I don’t pass sentence (well, ok I do) on how others make their living. I’m not Joe Scripture either, but as Matthew 7:1 says, "judge not lest you be judged".
$4,000 seems a bit much for a large, solar powered trash compactor. I bet if the sellers were negotiating with Costco or Wal-Mart instead of Government Purchasing Agents, thet $4K price tag would be halved.
Also, although they can now have the capacity to store 4-5 days worth of trash, what is that thing going to smell like on day 5 after a heat wave like the one we just had? I wonder if the Purchasing Agent ever had one of these cans with a 5-day old load out front of their home before they made the decision.
Hate to sound so anti-big government, but in this instance, this just seems f*ed up from the get-go. Hopefully I will be proven wrong.
See the latest images of Peter Zumthor’s LACMA redesign
As so many of William L. Pereira’s important mid-century civic and commercial buildings face the wrecking ball across the Southland,
one has to ask: why not simply restore his iconic LACMA campus, the subject of Ed Ruscha’s most famous painting and a project that speaks eloquently to Southern California’s post-war ambitions and to the practical needs of a public plaza and exhibition hall? It’s bizarre to see the museum making such a fuss over the gift of a much-altered John Lautner house in the hills when it’s sitting on, and planning to obliterate, a legitimate masterpiece by one of our greatest homegrown architects. Nix the incredible shrinking Zumthor; save the Pereira!
Whittier Determined to Get the Gold Line to Reach Them
I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again…..the Washington Blvd alignment is a half-a$$ed attempt to bring quality transit service to Whittier. It should not see the light of day.
Rail should be where it belongs…….. Whittier Blvd. For the love of god, why hasn’t anyone proposed a Purple Line extension from the Tom Labonge-proposed Arts District station, across the river, and onto 6th street/Whittier Blvd???
Seriously Whittier, it’s better you wait for the real deal in an upcoming Measure R2 that could include a Whittier subway line than settling for a rail project that does not run where it needs to.