Posted in Business Profile on 10. Feb, 2010
The Blockbuster video store on the corner of National and Barrington is closing and selling off its entire inventory of dvds and games. Hurry out for great bargains — and stay tuned to see what new store will take its place…
Posted in Mar Vista on 09. Feb, 2010
The deadline for filing the completed candidate filing form is fast approaching! Download the form here if you are interested, and quickly fill it out and send it back in. Why, you may ask, would anyone be interested? The MVCC (and a few dozen tireless volunteers) has been a catalyst for turning Mar Vista from [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 28. Jan, 2010
And I applaud the decision. Mar Vista has its share of medical marijuana shops already — in my opinion, more than its share. So, many are welcoming this action by the Council. I know I am. I hope it will mean closing some of these stores, one of which just opened recently 2 blocks from [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 12. Jan, 2010
Cheers to Bill Rosendahl, our City Councilman, for persuading DWP to complete their environmental impact study on the underground power line project that would run through Mar Vista and Westchester before actually starting to dig. Thanks, Bill! You’ve once again earned my vote. Stay tuned for more information on the project as it develops…
Posted in Mar Vista on 05. Jan, 2010
Scattergood, for those of you who haven’t heard the word yet, is the shorthand name of an infrastructure project being undertaken by LADWP. It will involve power lines being placed under 12 miles of streets in West Los Angeles from approximately the 405/10 interchange down to just south of LAX. It will mean massive amounts [...]
Posted in Community on 17. Dec, 2009
The E-Calendar is a list of things happening in Mar Vista that comes right to your email inbox. The Mar Vista Community Council provides the info as a free service — and all kinds of events are listed, from the LAPD’s Santa Sleigh stops to the Green Committee meetings. Take a moment to sign up: [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 11. Dec, 2009
We have another local booster: Stacie Krajchir, of the Bungalow PR — and a Mar Vista resident — loves our neighborhood so much she saw fit to write about us on the HuffPo (as it’s called by those of us who love it). It’s a very nice shout-out for all of Mar Vista, and for [...]
Posted in Mar Vista on 18. Nov, 2009
Mar Vista has earned two honors this month, and they both deserve to be acknowledged. First, the Mar Vista Community Council was honored by the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment (DONE) during their Empower LA 2009: A Congress of Neighborhoods. The MVCC won one of only 8 First Annual Neighborhood Council Peer Awards given in four [...]
You may have seen them as you drove by last week, volunteers in orange vests, working along Venice Blvd. and Grand View, and in the alley behind the Venice shops. They were there as part of a program run by Chrysalis, sweeping up trash and leaves, weeding along sidewalks, emptying and relining trash cans, removing [...]
Someone wants to put up a building in the parking lot of Grand View Blvd. Elementary school. Grand View is my home school, and it’s right in the heart of Mar Vista, so this issue affects me personally. The scope of the project is still vague, but it’s been described variously as 3 small houses [...]
