Some say don’t sweat the small stuff. Though sometimes you have to celebrate the small stuff.
After decades of false starts and baby steps forward, there are big movements at Marlton Square, a.k.a. Santa Barbara Plaza. Just over a year ago, Leimert Park Beat embarked on a…
ContinueAdded by enhager on November 15, 2011 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments
Finally - a really big step toward reclaiming the derelict 20 acres known as Marlton Square!
When LeimertParkBeat.com and Intersections South LA Report teamed up to produce the definitive story last year, there had been…
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This is the press release from Bernard Parks' office:
PARKS TO KICK-OFF DEMOLITION AT MARLTON SQUARE
City’s Most Long-Awaited Development Project Moves Forward
WHAT: Councilmember Bernard C. Parks will join Congresswoman Maxine Waters and city
officials to kick-off the demolition of city-owned buildings in the Marlton Square shopping
center (formerly Santa Barbara Plaza) at a press conference on Thursday morning.
Redevelopment of the run-down…
Added by enhager on August 3, 2011 at 3:25pm — 3 Comments
The vacant and derelict buildings along Martin Luther King Boulevard in Santa Barbara Plaza, also known as Marlton Square, will be torn down and removed beginning the second week of July, according to Councilman Bernard Parks.
The city owns all but two of the parcels, Oran Belgrave's art house/radio station and Jerry's Flying Fox. The city made its last big purchase in the…
ContinueCouncilman Bernard Parks tweeted and held a press conference claiming that "Demolition to Begin Shortly" but offered few specifics and no time line. Parks held a press at the Buckingham Place senior apartments saying that "Marlton Square has emerged from bankruptcy, with a final settlement reached on December 29th.
In his Twitlonger post, Parks states that Commercial…
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Cities across the USA are turning unsightly lots into semi-permanent parks while they wait, sometimes years, for development to occur, a story by Nathaniel Popper in the LATimes.com reports.
"The lemon: An empty Manhattan lot surrounded by beat-up chain-link fencing. The lemonade: An urban oasis with wildflowers, wooden benches and sculptures in the middle of…
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By Emily Henry of Intersections South LA and Eddie North-Hager of LeimertParkBeat.com
Santa Barbara Plaza has been whitewashed, boarded up, security gates padlocked. Most of the 240 small and large shops once here have been relocated, were bought out or have gone out of business.
Yet this Los Angeles shopping center -- the size of 20…
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Hopefully it's more than a talk ing point.
As we have
begun to interview key players, we keep hearing "we are closer than ever to
redevelopming Marlton Square." Hopefully something is going on behind
the scenes.
If this is considered close, it means in the 20 years that this project
has been underway that the city was never close to making this a
success.
Capri Capital, which bought the adjacent…
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