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The main problem for turning the area into high yielding retail? The aggressive and persistent homeless. How often will those from neighboring Bel~Air and Holmby/Westwood walk the Village streets when they have to dodge yelling panhandlers and their dirty overflowing grocery carts while watching them relieve themselves in doorways and stairwells (which I saw not once but TWICE today).

And the main problem for a landlord to re-tenant their buildings? The Westwood Village Specific Plan. There are so many prohibitions of what is limited in the Village (e.g., there can only be # of Fast Food and # of Sit Down Restaurants per street) that your options dwindle down to ZERO.

A combination of over regulating the owners and under regulating the detractors (homeless) has killed Westwood Village.

Malibu Road is one of the streets I grew up on as a kid in the 1970s. Sure glad I did then, because I’d never be able to afford to live there now. There always were some large-ish houses on the street, but these mammoth places were just beginning to go up then… Dick Clark’s Hyatt-Hotel-sized palace around the 24500 block was the first (later featured in the Sex and the City Movie). Then again, our other houses in Brentwood, I considered quite modest…compared to my friends/schoolmates in Bel Air and Beverly Hills. Now I realize how fortunate I was… It’s insane, today, what you have to pay.

there is no way you’re going to keep modest small homes from being torn down in some of the most expensive areas of LA. buyers with that kind of money are not going to live in a small simply built house. even the larger homes in the flats that look fairly nice from the outside (the tudors, spanish etc) are often pretty crummy inside. there are certain ammenities that people want – namely large open kitchens with center islands that open to a family room (something you almost never get in older homes), big master bathrooms with huge walk-in closets. that’s the way people want to live today and older homes don’t often allow for that. hell – they everyone wants those ammenities – just watch HGTV househunters. it’s not just in BH or Bel Air either – they are tearing down older smaller homes in Santa Monica, Venice and the Miracle Mile all the time.

@guest #22: You’re delusional. $1 million dollars is not average for a home in LA! Not even close! Also Santa monica is not part of the city. Santa Monica is a huge city with rich and poor residents, I wouldn’t call Santa Monica upscale neither would millions of other people.
Most celebrities live in Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Hollywood Hills, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Bel Air, Hidden Hills, Brenttwood, and Encino. Mostly in The Valley and The Westside. Average Household income has alot more to do with an upscale neighborhood than average listing price. Studio City is an affluent neighborhood. Just because a neighborhood average list price is higher than the other does not make it better as Real Estate changes like the wind.

L.A. has a Jewish Latino mayor. I think that say’s it all. Everyone is welcome in L.A. WASPs don’t help bring property prices up, most WASP are white trash in Simi Valley, Lancaster, Riverside or fled L.A. County etc. Jews and Asians are the best residents they lay roots and signal that property prices will go up once they start moving in. Some examples, Beverly Hills, San Marino, Bel Air, Diamond Bar. Study by Coldwell bankers seminar I attended a few months ago confirmed this. They are excited so many Asians are moving to L.A. they think property prices will go much higher and Asian population is the main reason.

@guest #9: Best places are outside L.A. City control, better roads, better schools, just better places to live. Looks how much better West Hollywood is now it’s a city. Look at Santa Monica & Beverly Hills. Imagine how much better the city would be if we split it up into Brentwood City, Bel Air City, Downtown City, Los Feliz City, etc. with people who cared about the residents. We have a shame of the city council and we get to vote for the same people who messed everything up. It’s really unreal L.A. voters continue to empower bad people who raise our taxes and make the city worse for everyone except themselves.

Found the listing on Zillow below, it’s on 63,500 sq foot lot. It’s really nice house but over priced and I love everything about it. I’d rather live on a estate the same size or larger for the same $10 million in Brentwood, Santa Monica, Malibu, or Bel Air. If you look around most the homes are smaller but sold in the $2m to $5M range in San Marino. This would be a very huge risk to pay this price, these are some elite Westside pricing without the location and proximity to LA amenities. Good luck to the agents.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1665-Euston-Rd-San-Marino-CA-91108/20701441_zpid/

September is Preparedness month !! Who knows what they are up to in Bel Air, but – the BIG ONE is just around the corner and we don’t know when or where it will happen …
Everyone needs to be prepared and make sure to keep an earthquake kit in ones homes, cars, and offices. Water, Food, Good Shoes, and several hundreds dollar cash are just a few essentials. I put together my own kit years ago that I update once a year, throwing out expired items.
If you don’t want to build a kit yourself, I recommend checking out this company Preppi.
http://www.preppi.co
They make awesome earthquake kits with everything you need for 72-hours after a quake
Either way, everyone should heed warning – get a kit and a plan together.

The major issue not being commented on is the 30,000cy of soil being removed. That is essentially an entire mountain being removed to build one home. Grading for a pad is one thing; altering the geography, goelogy, water table, etc. to shoehorn an office building-sized home onto a hillside is downright obscene.

Somma Way is a tiny, inclined cul-de-sac. It might be "Bel-Air", but it is Los Angeles, and the homes on that stretch are modest. I can’t imagine the stress is would cause me as a parent and homeowner to know that for the next 2 years, a fully loaded dump truck would be passing my house every 8 minutes. Fuck that. Especially given the propensity of dump trucks in the last year to lose control, crash and kill people.