area newsletter JULY 2019 • THE VALLEY
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Community News Woodland Hills Developers Win Prestigious Gold Nugget Award
salon, massage facilities, pet spa, dog run with play park, three courtyards, and a rooftop lounge. Talaria offers a plethora of exclusive on-site amenities allowing residents to go about their daily activities without ever leaving home.
New apartments coming to Woodland Hills
The Cusumano Real Estate Group, the developers of Talaria at Burbank, have won the Grand Award at the 2019 Gold Nugget Awards. The Gold Nugget Awards are administered by the California Building Industry Association which honors the design and planning achievements by the industry’s brightest and most innovative architects, planners and builder/ developers. Cusumano Group, the design team of Nadia Geller Designs and VTBS Architects were honored in the category of Best Mixed-Use Project. Talaria at Burbank was envisioned to be a cutting-edge urban community based upon sustainable design and to be Burbank’s first and only ultra-luxury, forrent housing community in the heart of the Burbank Media District. The five-story building, located at 3401 W. Olive Avenue, contains 241 residential units atop a 43,000-square-foot retail space that is now occupied by a Whole Foods Market. Community amenities include a 4-acre, 250,000-square-foot property include on-site concierge and maintenance, fitness center with spin room and saunas, pool, cabanas and outdoor kitchen, 34-seat private screening room, community pub room, business center, bike storage, wine storage, dry bar
A new supermarket has been approved to occupy former toy chain, Toys ‘R’ Us, in Woodland Hills. Although no prospective tenant has been announced, the city planning approval has been received for a “generic market” dispensing a full line of alcoholic beverages for off-site consumption. This project will be included in the Warner Center 2035 Plan which will guide Warner Center’s development in the next 15 years. While some residents oppose this new development, others anticipate the job opportunities this plan will bring.
Community News NoHo Complex to Replace Strip Mall, Apartment Building
Plans have been made to transform a vacant apartment building and strip mall into a multifamily residential development. The original property, which consisted of 6 units, was vacated in 2007 because of the Ellis Act. The new apartment buildings would feature nine out of eightyfour units for extremely low-income affordable housing. Strategic Legacy Investment Group will be responsible for creating these apartments similar to the residential building completed in 2017, The Aura Noho.
New York Life Scoops up North Hollywood Property for $103M New York Life Real Estate Investors closed a $103 million-dollar deal for a North Hollywood office property. Due to the continuous demand for space from media and tech tenants, the Greater Hollywood area has been an area investors desire property. Cassie Mehlum, New York Life Real Estate Investors’ transaction officer states, “We are
pleased to have had the opportunity to purchase this creative office property leased to quality tenants.” Some features that attracted them to this opportunity include a fitness center, entertainment lounge, open-air balconies, and outdoor recreation area in addition to walkable neighborhood amenities.
L.A. Safest Drivers Contest set to Launch with $20k prize Los Angeles will be having the L.A.’s Safest Driver contest as a way to discourage distracted driving where participants can compete to win $20,000 for practicing safe driving. "Safe driving is a reward unto itself, but some friendly competition is a great way to drive home the importance of keeping our minds and eyes on the road." Mayor Garcetti said. The competition will last for eight weeks and participants can join by simply downloading an app that measures speed, acceleration, braking, cornering, and phone use while driving. The City of Los Angeles in partnership with United Services Automobile Association and Cambridge Mobile Telematics is offering $20,000 to the safest driver who lives or routinely drives in the greater Los Angeles area.
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SIGHTS & SOUNDS in LOS ANGELES
The Broad Museum
Grammy Museum
221 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012
800 W. Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90015
J. Paul Getty Museum 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, CA 90049
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Soul of a nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 March 23 - September 1, 2019
Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Popular Music and the National Pastime March 14, 2019 - Fall 2019
Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits August 28, 2018 – October 13, 2019
The Broad is hosting this special exhibit of artwork by AfricanAmerican artists who were active during the civil rights and black power movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and into the early years of the conservative Reagan administration. LA artists Charles White, Betye Saar, and William T. Williams are among the 60 artists whose work is featured. The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern and presented locally by Art + Practice, a Leimert Park-based organization.
This exhibition explores the convergence of two powerful threads of American pop culture, baseball and music. Focused on songs written about the game, and how music is played in stadiums, the exhibit features sheet music, handwritten lyrics, and even the microphone that Harry Caray used to sing during the 7th inning stretch.
Celebrating a medium that is often overlooked in other time periods, this exhibit delves into the favored form of portraiture in late 18th century Europe. Pastels allowed the artist to create classically beautiful works without the arduous process that oil painting often requires. This flexibility coincided with the growing class of people who patronized portrait artists, creating a unique body of work that represented both an evolving craft and an evolving society.
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