Contentious five hours of debate results in 4-3 vote last week By Dolores Quintana and Sam Catanzaro Santa Monica City Council recently approved the Shore Hotel’s proposal to open a new restaurant, create a ‘micro-hotel’ […]
Ocean Avenue hotel’s proposal defeated in deadlock vote By Dolores Quintana The Oceana Hotel’s second attempt to make their in-house restaurant available to the general public has narrowly been defeated last week in a Santa […]
Pico and Sepulveda development proposed By Dolors Quintana A 100,000 square foot biotech lab space with offices is planned for Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Life Science developer HATCHspaces and health care systems developer NexCore Group have joined forces […]
20th and Arizona project given green light By Dolores Quintana The redevelopment of the administration wing of the former Gates, Kingsley, and Gates Mortuary has officially been approved by the Santa Monica Planning Commission as […]
Pledge includes a $500,000 monetary donation and $500,000 in pro bono work By Staff Writer Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. has announced a $1 million donation to support The Veterans Fund, a $10-million launch fund for […]
By Tom Elias, Columnist It’s happening. Despite the best efforts of California’s highly ideological, developer-financed state legislators, the solution to this state’s widely acknowledged housing shortage is coming fast, driven more by market forces than […]
Wilshire and Harvard development to include 9 studio apartments By Dolores Quintana Two commercial buildings are being redeveloped into a small new mixed use building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Harvard Street in […]
West LA Commons to include over 900 units of housing alongside retail and municipal office building By Dolores Quintana A redevelopment of the West LA Civic Center will include over 900 units of housing, retail […]
Community center, garden and more also planned By Sam Catanzaro Culver City’s Wende Museum is proposing a major expansion that would include affordable housing for homeless artists, a community center, garden space and more. The […]
By Tom Elias, Columnist It was inevitable from the moment Gov. Gavin Newsom in mid-September signed this year’s two most important housing bills into law: There will be a rebellion. Not only did poll numbers […]
The City Council unanimously launched a $3.5 million Restorative Justice Program — one of the largest locally funded efforts of...
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