Larchmont Chronicle
vol. 54, no. 2
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FEBRuary 2017
Update: Quigg bankruptcies move forward
IN THIS ISSUE
Creditors meet Jan. 27 By John Welborne The nine bankruptcy proceedings initiated by house developer Robert Quigg, including for six houses in Windsor Square and Hancock Park, are moving along. However, hearings and creditors’ meetings were postponed until after the Larchmont Chronicle went to press. Approximately 50 documents
VALENTINES tell how they met. 9 to 11
Vote
Tues., March 7
ELECTION choices. 8
IS THIS THE REAL ISSUE? Shown at right is the proposed Palladium Residences project that preserves the historic Hollywood Palladium and adds two residential towers behind, on empty parking lots, all within two blocks of the Hollywood and Vine Metro Red Line subway station. Shown at left is the existing 22-story Sunset Media Center building where Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has his headquarters office.
Is Measure 'S' all about saving a view? Construction moratorium battle features heavyweights on the fight card LEAGUE news.
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By John Welborne Is the Measure S ballot initiative that would halt much construction for two years citywide, and that is going to
YES on Measure S HEALTHY living in Hancock Park. 2-13
ALWAYS in bloom on Lucerne. 2-14 For Information on Advertising Rates, Please Call Pam Rudy 323-462-2241, x 11 Mailing permit:
– end backroom deals By Patrick Range McDonald Perhaps more than any other metropolis in America, Los Angeles is a distinctly unique, soulful city. We have incredible cultural diversity; beautiful architecture; eclectic neighborhoods; innovative artists, musicians and filmmakers; and a multitude of mom-and-pop shops and restaurants that offer specialty food, goods and services. It is a city that we love dearly, but is under serious threat — and it shouldn’t be that way. In L.A., we have zoning See Yes on Measure 'S', p 6
the voters in March, really just about a powerful executive trying to protect the view from his office? The lobbyist for a neighboring project made that claim in a “Los Angeles Times” article in March of last year. Is this expensive battle (close to $2 million on each side, so far) possibly just a fight between two neighbors? One is a developer hoping to build a $324 million highrise project between two existing high-rise towers on the north side of Sunset Blvd., just east of Vine St. and within two blocks of a Metro Red Line subway station. The other is AIDS Healthcare Foundation executive Michael Weinstein, whose offices are on the 21st floor of the existing Sunset Media Center tower, one of the largest office buildings in Hollywood, 22 stories tall, with more than
320,000 square feet of space. It seems so, according to endless comments on local social media (if those can be See Moratorium, p 23
NO on Measure S – it goes too far By Elise Buik The tragic gap in housing affordability in Los Angeles means record numbers of our neighbors are living on the streets or missing this month’s rent. Last month, Gov. Brown’s budget report highlighted a root cause: housing production in L.A. greatly lags our economic recovery, with current housing construction rates meeting only 41 percent of the need. Nearly 60 percent of L.A. renters are “cost-burdened,” meaning they spend more See No on Measure 'S', p 7
TYPICAL SIGN on local residential properties under redevelopment by Quigg Builders Inc. and related entities.
already have been filed in the case under which eight of the bankruptcies have been consolidated for joint administration (Case No. 2:16-bk-25740-ER). January 27 meeting The rescheduled first meeting of creditors (known as a “341 meeting”) for those eight cases (everything other than the former Bob Newhart property in Bel Air) is set for See Quigg, p 23
Miracle Mile 2017
A year-round guide to residential, retail and business news, “Miracle Mile 2017” will be published with the March issue of the Larchmont Chronicle. To reserve ad space, call 323-462-2241, ext. 11. Deadline is Mon., Feb. 13.
Gill’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream closing after 80 years New vendor planned at Original Farmers Market
FOUNDER JOE GILL, seated left, circa 1944.
By Suzan Filipek Bob Gill remembers the open land at Third and Fairfax before Farmers Market was built. “That’s how old I am,” he is quoted on the Market website. His dad Joe opened Gill’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream in Farmers Market in 1938,
and Bob started scooping ice cream there at age 14. The legendary pink-and-white striped outdoor stall is closing Feb. 2, says Jody Gill, with more than a tinge of regret. Granddaughter of its founder, she had hoped to carry on See Gill's Ice Cream, p 20
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