Blackburn + Sweetzer Has Moved

This was the scene at the northwest corner of 3rd and Sweetzer at around 4:30pm yesterday, causing significant traffic on 3rd. Owner Allan Jeffries said he believed there was another car involved in the accident, but it was nowhere in sight by then. An elderly fellow crashed into the lamp post, which then toppled on [...]

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And so the Mid City West Community Council Land Use Committee began last night at 6:30pm with around 60 people in the audience, virtually all of whom attended to voice a strong opposition against the proposed 300-Unit 13-Story Casden Project to replace Ross Dress for Less at 6298 West 3rd Street (3rd and Ogden).
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Rendering of Casden condo and apartment project from Curbed LA
This Wednesday, January 27 at 6:30pm at 543 North Fairfax Avenue, the Mid City West Community Council Land Use Committee will hold a public meeting regarding the 300-unit Casden Properties project proposed for West 3rd Street and Ogden Drive, where the Ross Dress for Less currently [...]

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Get word from a B+S reader that there are three vacant seats—’Arts,’ ‘Renters’ and ‘Medical’—on the Mid-City West Community Council Board. Elections for each of the seats will be held tonight at a public meeting Tuesday, January 12 at 7pm in the main auditorium of the National Council of Jewish Women at 543 [...]

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Per usual, rain is an event in LA. Yesterday’s showers brought an amazing rainbow that had everyone giddy. Clockwise from top left: rainbow over OK on West 3rd Street; Blogdowntown caught this photo of, what else, Downtown; Franklin Avenue snapped this from the Variety building on Wilshire; and this stunner is from LAist, [...]

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Checked out the Mid City West Land Use Committee meeting last week, and, wow, was that an experience. Tensions run high! I’m guestimating it lasted around four hours, as I left after around three-and-a-half and they still had to do the minutes. The issues at hand were all restaurant related, whether it be parking, [...]

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In conjunction with the City of LA updating its Bicycle Plan, the Mid City West Community Council Board of Directors recently adopted recommendations for the neighborhood’s bicycle network. Here is a map of the recs, with purple denoting bicycle-friendly local streets, proposed bicycle lanes in dark green (Fairfax, San Vicente, Burton Way), and [...]

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Got word from Lilliam that Entourage will be filming this Friday in the nabe, so park, gawk or avoid accordingly:
Just got this notice that Entourage will be filming on June 5, Friday from 7am to 2am. This means no parking anytime west side of Fairfax Avenue from Oakwood Avenue north 500ft., north side of Rosewood [...]

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6th and Fairfax shown above; the median will be going in near the intersection of 6th and Fairfax
This news comes from B+S reader and informative commenter Miss Teresa:
“As a part of the Grove Traffic Mitigation, which is designed to ease traffic on the residential streets surrounding The Grove, the City is going to put in [...]

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Last Wednesday, the West 3rd Street Business Association convened at the NCJW with Maya Zutler from Councilman Jack Weiss‘ office, Mott Smith of strategic planning, real estate development firm Civic Enterprise Associates (which focuses on emerging Southern California neighborhoods), Scott Baker of landscape architecture firm Melendrez, and anyone else who wanted to attend [...]

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I was alerted to the discrepancy in signage on West 3rd Street. Note the sign reads “2 Hour Parking 8am to 6pm Except Sunday”; while the info on the actual parking meters has changed, now parkers are responsible to pay Mon-Sat 8am-8pm and Sunday 11am-8pm. Would these tickets be enforceable? I would guess [...]

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Special elections are tomorrow, Tuesday, May 19, which includes our next LA City Council District 5 member—Paul Koretz or David Vahedi.
Be sure to vote! Check out the LAT ‘Election at a Glance,’ and find your polling place at lavote.net.
There’s also one last forum between Vahedi and Koretz tonight, Monday, May 18, at the [...]

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