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    Echo Park developer comes back for seconds

    View Douglas Street Developments in a larger map The same developer that is working on a 15- home project in the far north end of Elysian Heights is now seeking to build an additional 17 homes on the eastern edge of Echo Park on Douglas Street.  Planet Home Living  plans to build the homes on [...]

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    127-year-old Lincoln Heights house in line to become historic landmark*

    Built 127 years ago at the base of a Lincoln Heights hill,  the Queen Anne-style Young-Gribling residence retains an imposing albeit haunted-house like presence complete with steep roofs and a tower that looks down upon Griffin Avenue.  But the home at 3320 Griffin Avenue  is in need of extensive repairs, prompting the current owners to [...]

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    Eastside Property: The economics of an Echo Park bungalow court

    Only a few years ago it would have been hard to imagine that the gentrification of Echo Park would have crept down from the hills and into the 1400 block of Echo Park Avenue, where pedestrians once had to walk around an obstacle course of abandoned mattresses and sofas as gang members in white knee-high [...]

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    Garvanza’s “Jungle House” emerges into view after decades of neglect*

    By Nicole Possert One of the earliest and most significant properties in the Garvanza section of Highland Park  has been rescued and taken off the long-term “watch list” because of a new preservation-minded owner. Suffering from  decades of severe neglect and was hidden behind overgrown trees and bushes,  the property, known as the Dr. Smith [...]

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    Digging into Dodger Stadium history

    Thousands of Dodger fans will fill the ballpark today for the season opener.  But in 1960, when the above photo was taken, it was a fleet of tractors and bulldozers that filled what was to become Dodger Stadium, which opened fifty years ago on the site of a neighborhood called Chavez Ravine.  It took an [...]

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    Echo Park condo sales effort begins with balloons and a tent

    After selling new  homes in suburbs such as Palmdale, sale rep Jim Mahboubian this week began the task of selling 36 condos in Echo Park near the center of Los Angeles. While the first model home for the 36 on Echo project won’t be finished until next month,  that has not stopped Mahboubian, who works [...]

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    Happy Birthday Harry: Silver Lake honors gay rights pioneer

    This morning gay activists and Silver Lake residents gathered near the base of a steep hill to celebrate the designation of a section of the Cove Avenue stairway in honor of pioneering gay activist Harry Hay and the movement he helped set into motion.The teacher, actor and Communist helped found one of the nation’s first [...]

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    Eastside Property: El Sereno house replaces curb appeal with green blob

    This newly listed two-bedroom El Sereno house on Boca Avenue says the “seller will place New FRONT lawn, and front sprinklers.” In the meantime the existing front yard looks like it has been replaced by a digital green blob, based on the photo above that accompanies the Redfin listing.  Perhaps it would have been better [...]

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    March was a million dollar month for Silver Lake real estate

    The sale of million dollar homes in Silver Lake is not uncommon. In fact, more than 20 homes fetched a million dollars or more in 2011 even as the real estate market struggled to emerge from a years long slump.  But the Silver Lake million-dollar home market seems to have gotten off to a strong [...]

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    A gateway to Lincoln Heights’ past wins preservation award

    It’s been a little more than a year since city officials gathered to honor the restoration of the Lincoln Park Gateway, a tile and concrete ceremonial entrance at the north end of the park that had undergone a $390,000 renovation. On Thursday, the the Art Deco-style gateway – which features rebuilt and repaired tiles, fountains, [...]

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    Here’s why so many real estate investors are flipping over Highland Park

    Want to flip a house? Forget the Hollywood Hills and head to Highland Park. A “Flip Analysis” produced by Land Advisors, a broker that specializes in land sales, shows that homes that were bought and sold  by investors in Highland Park – a flipper hot spot – sold on average for 73% more than what [...]

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    Will Silver Lake’s Black Cat come back?

    The “Le Barcito” sign has come down from the front of  Silver Lake’s former Gay Latino bar  as the new owners build a new bar and restaurant inside.  While the new owners operate the Village Idiot on Melrose Avenue,  there are indications that they may not simply repeat the Village Idiot name in Silver Lake [...]

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    Another day, another story on Echo Park Avenue

    Echo Park residents who return home tonight via Echo Park Avenue will find that that construction crews were busy today adding  a second floor to the condominiums now under way at Echo Park and Delta avenues.  The 36 on Echo development still has another floor to go before topping out.  How high can you go [...]

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    Great Wall of Silver Lake may be replaced by a wall of condos

    The giant retaining wall that snakes high above Riverside Drive west of Fletcher Drive and another mark the spot where property owners have long planned to build a large residential project. Now, the property owners have put the approximately six acre parcel – called RiverGlen 120 – up for sale for $10.5 million. What can [...]

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    Planned Echo Park development generates concern and support

    The Echo Park hillside that rises to the west of Echo Park Avenue and Baxter street is packed with decades-old bungalows, steep stairway streets and a canopy of trees. It’s the same hillside where a developer is now preparing to build a cluster of new homes designed by noted Los Angeles architect Barbara Bestor.  The [...]

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    Eastside Property: Not even a “cool condo” in Silver Lake can avoid a price plunge

    Many Silver Lake residents were upset when the developers of a 26-unit Silver Lake condo complex at the corner of Glendale and Silver Lake boulevards gouged out a chunk of hillside to insert three, boxcar like buildings into the property. Since the project was completed in 2005, the same part of Silver Lake has seen [...]

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