Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Stuyvesant Town (Credit: Getty Images and Wikipedia) Blackstone Group is keeping some rent-regulated apartments at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village vacant, sources say, after changes to the rent law impacted landlords’ ability to reap profits. There are between 20 to 50 units being left empty, according to the complex’s […]
The Play’s the Thing: On Simone Weil’s “Venice Saved”
NO. 79. If you would know the woman, start there. Had her posthumous fate played out as she preferred, her name would not have appeared on her gravestone, but instead there would have been anonymous numbers of the kind assigned to paupers. And for 15 years after her death, Simone Weil was a nameless nobody […]
Phoenix Voters Save Light Rail
Voters in Phoenix have soundly rejected a proposal that would have halted the expansion of the city’s light rail system — a proposition that had the backing of dark money linked to the notorious anti-transit Koch brothers. In a 62-to-38 percent vote, residents turned aside Proposition 105, which would have redirected a previously passed tax away […]
Power Lunch with LADWP a Success
LADWP leaders gathered at Power Lunch on August 14th in DTLA. For the first time in LADWP’s recent history, leaders from each department gathered at Power Lunch on August 14th in DTLA, an event hosted by Dry Utility Experts (DUEx). Source: Urbanize LA – Staff
A Star East Coast Ramen Shop Sets Up in LA’s Virgil Village Next
Ken’s Ramen | Ken’s Ramen Ken’s Ramen from Providence, Rhode Island is coming home, kind of A formerly famous ramen shop out of Rhode Island, of all places, is coming to Los Angeles early next year. Ken’s Ramen, which made the cover of Bon Appetit magazine back in 2016, is landing a new space in […]
As LA’s homeless population climbs, affordable developer plans 81-unit complex in Echo Park
SRO Housing Corporation CEO Anita U. Nelson, the development site, and a rendering of the project An affordable developer wants to build an 81-unit permanent supportive housing complex in Echo Park, at a time when Los Angeles is struggling to address its rising homeless population. SRO Housing Corporation filed plans for the city’s Transit-Oriented Communities […]