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The Hope of Marlton Square / Santa Barbara Plaza

 

 

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…

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Added by enhager on November 15, 2011 at 8:30pm — 3 Comments

Demolition underway at Marlton Square/Santa Barbara Plaza





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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Added by enhager on August 4, 2011 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Demoltion of Marlton Square Begins Tomorrow - Will Update Soon!

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…

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Added by enhager on August 3, 2011 at 3:25pm — 3 Comments

Marlton Square demolition to start in two weeks, Councilman Parks says

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…

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Added by enhager on July 4, 2011 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Marlton Square/Santa Barbara Plaza takes step toward redevelopment, Councilman Bernard Parks says

Councilman 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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Added by enhager on February 6, 2011 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Cities turn vacant, abandoned lots into parks - A plan for Marlton Square/Santa Barbara Plaza

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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Added by enhager on December 17, 2010 at 12:09am — No Comments

Redevelopment Hell: How a prime opportunity for redevelopment in South Los Angeles became the bane of the community

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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Added by enhager on September 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — 15 Comments

Waiting for Marlton - Stalled redevelopment mars Baldwin Hills neighborhood and Crenshaw Plaza businesses

The $30 million upgrade of the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza is underway just a year or two after new owners came in and paid more than $100 million for this prized piece of real estate.







But across the street, it's taken decades to redevelop Marlton Square, which sits in shambles a stone's throw from the world famous Debbie Allen Studios and the nicest Fatburger and Taco Bell you'll ever see. And of course the Magic Johnson Theater and Sears.… Continue

Added by enhager on July 11, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

The Refrain: We're closer than ever to redeveloping Marlton Square

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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Added by enhager on June 28, 2010 at 11:57pm — No Comments

The hope of Marlton Square

There are 20 acres in our community that everybody knows as a dump, as a shame. But once Marlton Square, aka, Santa Barbara Plaza held 300 stores, stores supported by our community. Banks, dry cleaners, tailors.



Let's try to imagine.



Seem like a lifetime ago because for most of us in the Crenshaw area the only memory is of Marlton Square in shambles.



It was once a destination. Now it is in decay. Development could be just around the corner. Let's hope it is.…

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Added by enhager on May 31, 2010 at 11:00pm — No Comments

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