Category Archives: Real Estate
No Fire Truck Access, No Evacuation Route, No Problem
There would be NO fire truck access and NO evacuation route for residents if the project were built. NO problem according to the City. Why would the City even consider this proposed project of four new 10,000 to 17,000 square...
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Rodeo Realty First Commercial Building Going Up
“I own the building and I’m rebuilding it how it was before the fire,” said Rodeo Realty owner Syd Leibovitch. “I hope to open in December.” The building at 839 Via de la Paz, which housed the Palisadian-Post, was built...
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County Assessor Needs Palisades Residents’ New Addresses
“We mailed about 17,000 notices of assessment change to property owners in the fire area. We have now started to receive many back as undeliverable – well over a thousand in Palisades alone. That means that the property tax refund checks that...
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Farmer Schwartz Looking for a “Pasture”
Palisades resident Bruce Schwartz, who annually gives pumpkin plants to residents who are willing to grow them in their yard, has a problem. Many of those people had their homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire. He has 30 mature seedlings...
Posted in Geology/Dinosaurs/Earth, Real Estate
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ULA, The Mansion Tax, Fails to Deliver Affordable Housing
(Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Westside Current and is a great analysis of the failure of ULA. It is reprinted with permission.) By ANGELA MCGREGOR Despite promises of a billion-dollar windfall to fight homelessness, L.A.’s real estate...
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Palisades Real Estate Update, Three Months after the Fire
(Editor’s note: With about $600 million slated to be used in school construction for two elementary schools and the high school, and with the most recent announcement (April 10) of an upgraded and planned new Palisades Park and Recreation Center,...
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Enforcement of Building Housing on VA in Ninth Circuit Court
(Editor’s note: The story “Housing for Los Angeles’ Homeless Veterans in Hands of Ninth Circuit Court” appeared on April 9 in the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission. As background, a lawsuit (Valentin v. Shinseki) was brought in 2011,...
Posted in History, Homelessness, Real Estate
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Construction of First Home on DePauw Celebrated
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass held a press conference today, April 9, at 15265 De Pauw to alert Angelinos that residential rebuilding in Pacific Palisades had begun. The three-year-old home, owned by Walter and Alessandra Lopes, had burned during the January...
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City’s Building Costs Have Rebuild Plans on Hold
The January 7 Fires destroyed 11,000 homes with 6,837 in Pacific Palisades and 4,356 in Altadena. “They want us to rebuild? The City has to help. They could waive the construction fees. Most of us are not rich, I have...
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Building Permits/Fees Too Costly to Rebuild after Palisades Fire
It was widely reported that the city of Los Angeles had issued just four rebuilding permits in the Pacific Palisades 75 days after the January 7 Palisades Fire devastated most of the community. One permit was issued to the owner...
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