Westwood Village’s bar scene may be nearly dead, but hope can spring from the most unexpected places. Cue Ralphs’ wine and beer bar, where you can do your grocery shopping and reward your amazing adult-ing without having to even finish doing so. At the Cork and Tap Beer and Wine Bar, you can choose from […]
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Throwback Thursday: Parking, the never-ending issue in Westwood
Parking restrictions 30 years ago remain enforced to this day.
LA’s Expo Line Extension: Both new, and nothing new
I remember riding the Expo Line on my way back home from school for the first time two days after it opened in 2012. It was hard to imagine that that same train in four years time would reach the sea and harder to imagine that 60 years prior, the Los Angeles region had done […]
Coffee Commentary: Starbucks (Weyburn & Broxton)
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Westwood, for rent: A Village revamped
Westwood Village’s drawn-out retail and residential recession might finally come to an end.
Westwood, for rent: Yesterday’s plan, tomorrow’s Village
The fourth post in a series on Westwood. This week: why – and how – the Westwood Village Specific Plan should be updated. Imagine a Westwood Village with a lack of balance in its businesses: more than a dozen movie screens and 15 burger joints, but no grocery stores. On top of that, imagine having few […]
Westwood, for rent: One Village, many interests
Third in a series: How Westwood’s constituents don’t intersect, and why they should.