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by Peter Lassen Community members have been complaining for years about the broken sidewalk around the bus stop at Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The roots of the two ficus trees that shaded the bus stop had undermined the sidewalk, and it was a lawsuit just waiting to happen. Realizing that inevitability, the bureaucracy […]
ECHO PARK IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Neighborhood Issues Committee Agenda Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 7 pm Williams Hall, Barlow Hospital, 2000 Stadium Way Introductions and sign in Approve Minutes Schools & Civic: Van De Kamps/LACC-LACCD Seniors Issues Hate Crime Meeting 9A Community Room New Business Land Use: Barlow Hospital-Proposed Entitlements and Development Morton Village complex Filming Committee […]
ECHO PARK IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION Neighborhood Issues Committee Agenda Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 7 pm Williams Hall, Barlow Hospital, 2000 Stadium Way Introductions and sign in Approve Minutes Schools & Civic: Van De Kamps/LACC-LACCD Seniors Issues Hate Crime Meeting New Business Land Use: Barlow Hospital-Proposed Entitlements and Development Morton Village complex Filming Committee SB1818 Letter Sale […]
The February-March 2013 issue of EPIAn Ways is ready for download! To download a hi-res PDF, click here. To view a version in your browser without downloading a PDF, click here.
Submitted by Becky Mazel, Parent, School Site Council Secretary, FoEHES Treasurer Staff, students and parents have a lot to be proud of at Elysian Heights Elementary School, an LAUSD public school serving pre-K (four year olds) through sixth grade students in Echo Park, as well as many students from beyond the Echo Park district of […]
What’s the Dish in Echo Park these days? by GloRia SwanSong Restaurant ch-ch-ch-changes Lots of restaurant news… what’s the old adage? No publicity is bad publicity? Well, we can ask the owners of the new Cortez Restaurant of their opinion on that! Jonathan Gold’s less than flattering article for the L.A. Times made the “skinny […]
Local architect Pete Lassen critiques the latest design for the “Montana Triangle” located on Montana Street and Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park. He argues, “A building in this location should express is that it is an integral part of Echo Park, that it belongs to the community….This [new] proposal simply does not belong here.” Do […]
The Save Elysian Park campaign is composed of community members and organizations that are focusing energies on educating the public on and protecting against development of land currently owned by Barlow Hospital directly adjacent to Elysian Park. To sign the petition click here. Visit saveelysianpark.org to learn more.
Be sure to say “hello!” to Sabrina Bohn behind the Shear Rock Farms table at the Echo Park Farmers’ Market, open every Friday from 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Parking Lot #663 on Logan Street, south of Sunset Boulevard). “Our whole idea is that it’s fresh-picked the day of or the night before.” Right now […]
by Andrew Garsten As we set foot into February now, the 2013 year feels like it is rushing up to us at a breakneck speed. Last year in Echo Park, we saw the continuation of long-term items of concern to the community, and the coming of a less-than-satisfactory conclusion to several long-term items. With the […]
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