I read an article recently in the Los Angeles Times about a neighborhood called Manchester Square that the good folks over at nearby LAX have turned into a virtual “ghost town.” A ghost town in the middle of Los Angeles?…
LAX Creates Ghost Town
Category: Urban Planning
Grand Park is a Grand Park!
I paid a visit to Downtown’s new Grand Park on Saturday, and it definitely lives up to its name. It is brilliantly conceived and executed and is a welcome addition to the burgeoning Downtown scene. The park is a 12-acre…
Fairfax & 3rd Trader Joe’s
The Trader Joe’s/Mendocino Farms complex on Fairfax and 3rd opened a few weeks ago. They did a really nice job. But… Let’s get to the positives first. They are really nice buildings — kind of mid century looking, the colors…
Shame on Los Angeles!
If you drive around Los Angeles, and all of us who live here spend plenty of time doing that, you will see that the landscape is dotted with empty lots and abandoned buildings waiting for the wrecking ball. It is…
Fixing Wilshire Blvd
After living for more than four years behind the iron bars of the Palazzo West, I was very happy to be moving to a regular, less secure building on Miracle Mile, where I would actually have a relationship with the…