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Rexford Pays $40M for Properties in Carson, Carlsbad

Los Angeles-based Rexford Industrial Properties purchased two properties for $40.3 million using cash on hand, the company announced Nov. 12.

"These transactions demonstrate Rexford's proven ability to source attractive off-market investment opportunities across Southern California's highly fragmented infill industrial market," Howard Schwimmer and Michael Frankel, Co-Chief Executive Officers of the company, said in a statement.

The company purchased a 55,238-square-foot, 5.41-acre property in Carson for $16.1 million. It is a sale-leaseback of a single-tenant property. It is occupied by trucking operator Western Freight Carrier, which has signed a five-year lease.

Rexford also acquired two buildings on 8.28 acres in Carlsbad for $24.2 million. The two buildings are each newly built and have two tenant spaces. The buildings, which have 114,572 square feet, are 72 percent occupied. Shea Properties was the developer, owner and manager of the property before the sale.

In the third quarter of 2018, Rexford Industrial reported rental revenue of $54.5 million, an increase of 26 percent over the year prior.

Commercial real estate reporter Hannah Madans can be reached at hmadans@labusinessjournal.com. Follow her on Twitter @HannahMadans

Source: http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2018/nov/16/rexford-pays-40m-properties-carson-carlsbad/

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Boyd and Team Join Kidder Mathews from Charles Dunn

Kidder Mathews team: (left to right) Bill Boyd, Scott Unger, Lauren Nesmith and Linda Lee

Commercial real estate veteran Bill Boyd and several members of his Glendale office have joined the Seattle-based brokerage Kidder Mathews from Charles Dunn Co.

Boyd and Linda Lee were named executive vice president and partner at Kidder Mathews. Scott Unger was named senior vice president and Lauren Nesmith joined as a senior associate.

Boyd said Kidder Mathews’ 21 offices across the West Coast made it enticing for his office to switch firms – especially with the opportunity for him and Lee to become partners. Kidder Mathews plans to hire more brokers in its new Glendale office which covers the Tri-Cities submarket of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena, he said.

“They were seeking to enter the Tri-Cities market,” Boyd said. “They came to us and away we went.”

The Glendale office is Kidder Mathews’ seventh Southern California office to open in the past three years, according to the company, which also added Dennis Slattery as senior vice president to the new office.

“We see a tremendous opportunity to expand our services in the Tri-Cities (Glendale, Pasadena, and Burbank) to support our clients who do business there," said Robert Thornburgh, Kidder Mathews’ executive vice president of brokerage, Greater Los Angeles, in a statement. "We are very enthusiastic about the future with this group of highly experienced professionals to build our office around.”

Real estate reporter Ciaran McEvoy can be reached at cmcevoy@labusinessjournal.com or (323) 556-8337.

Source: http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2018/oct/15/boyd-and-team-join-kidder-mathews-charles-dunn/

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Moritz Thiele lays out $10 million cash in the Birds

This story is by special request from a longtime reader. Let’s call him Mike because, well, that’s his name.

If anyone here religiously follows high-end LA real estate listings, you’ve probably stumbled across today’s uber-contemporary house at least a couple times. The property was for sale (off and on) for nearly seven years, beginning way back in April 2012. At one point, the pricetag was a ridiculous $19 million.

The busy-busy home

Custom-built in 2007 by a man named Jerry Preston, the unique pad is located in the scary expensive Bird Streets, a neighborhood high above LA’s iconic Sunset Strip generally considered to be the most desirable section of the Hollywood Hills.

Perennially unsold, but sometimes rented (Google Maps)

After years on the market, several realtor changes and numerous pricechops — and one renter who paid $50,000/month to lease the premises — the property was listed with a new high-end real estate team last year and finally sold this January for exactly $10 million in cash.

We’ll get to the buyer momentarily, but first let’s chat more about the home’s history. Even if y’all do not follow LA real estate, this property may look familiar — the eye-catching architecture has garnered it various media appearances. Most famously, the house was featured in the mega-hit video game Grand Theft Auto V — yes, those crafty GTAV creators actually included an (almost) exact replica of this place in their virtual city. Pretty cool.

The house in real life (upper pic) and in Grand Theft Auto (lower pic)

Although the swoopy mansion doesn’t yet have an IMDB page, it also nabbed a starring role in 2014’s hit comedy Horrible Bosses 2, where it posed as the home of professional jerk Rex Hanson (portrayed by actor Chris Pine). If y’all didn’t catch the house on film, here’s a YouTube video of it.

WARNING: (The YouTube clip is rather offensive and definitely unsuitable for young children and ancient old fogies — AKA Yolanda — alike. Watch at your own peril. And make sure you’re wearing big gurl panties.)

Anywho, the $10 million cash buyer is a German dude named Moritz Thiele. Our Mr. Thiele founded Finanzcheck.de, a Hamburg-based FinTech company/website mainly known as an online comparison portal for consumer loans. Think of the site as Google Shopping but for price-checking lending rates.

Moritz Thiele (photo: Deutsche Startups)

Finanzcheck was founded in either 2010 or 2012 — depending on where one looks online — and in less than a decade, Mr. Thiele bootstrapped the business into a majorly successful online price comparison portal that now employs 267 people. And in July 2017, all that work paid off when the site was acquired by German conglomerate Scout24. The 285 million euro sales price is approximately equivalent to $325 million USD at today’s conversion rates.

So our boy can afford just about any house he wants. And though he remains Finanzcheck’s CEO, 37-year-old Mr. Thiele is apparently unmarried and wants a fancy LA bachelor pad. So that’s what he bought.

Some sourpuss naysayers may decry the cacophonic architecture here — there’s wood accents mixed with glass, metal and stucco. Plus the multiple layers of walls — some crisp and jarring, others curvy and wildly undulating. It’s quite a dramatic appearance, that’s for certain.

The single-story structure sits on a half-acre lot and has 5,749-square-feet of living space with 4 beds and 4 baths. As y’all might expect, there’s a full security system with cameras, alarms and the like.

Just within the custom-made from door is a sunken living room with a fireplace and high ceilings. An open family room area lies adjacent to a wet bar and a rather austere kitchen with bar-style seating and fancy stainless appliances. Somewhere there’s a wine cellar/room bigger than some studio apartments.

Disappearing walls of glass allow the relaxed indoor/outdoor lifestyle for which SoCal is so famous. A rectangular infinity pool overlooks the shimmering LA skyline — “some of the best jetliner views in the city,” boasts the listing.

Yolanda will not speculate on why this place took so many years to sell — maybe the prior owners were just too greedy, we dunno. We’ll leave that discussion to the real estate experts and our (very) opinionated readers. Care to sound off in the comments? Don’t be shy.

Mr. Thiele’s new house is located on a cul-de-sac near the tippy-top of the Birds, in a neighborhood pocket known as Doheny Estates. Although there ain’t any big “celebrities” on this particular street, homeboy does have lots of near-billionaire businesspeople as neighbors — folks like tech entrepreneur Ted Waitt, baller British heir Ashley Tabor, hedge funder Steve Wisch, British CEO Dr. Greg Bailey, Mexican investor Mauricio Oberfeld and Canadian entrepreneur Sam Magid.

EDIT: Whoops, Yolanda didn’t realize that Sam Magid quietly passed away last year. No wonder his former home is on the market with a $23 million ask.

Listing agents: The Altman Brothers, Douglas Elliman Moritz Thiele’s agent: Amy Black, Redfin

Source: https://www.yolandaslittleblackbook.com/blog/2019/02/01/moritz-thiele-house-los-angeles/

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Jamison plans another mixed-use building in Koreatown

Jamison plans another mixed-use building in Koreatown

Firm bookends the year with 157-unit redevelopment

Jamie Lee and 744-762 S. Serrano Avenue, Los Angeles (Credit: Google Maps)

Jamison Services is finishing off 2018 in style with a bid for another mixed-use development in Koreatown.

The firm filed plans on Dec. 28 to build a new structure with 157 units and 12,000 square feet of commercial space on a parking lot at 744-762 S. Serrano Avenue. Jamison bought the property, which is just south of the Wilshire Boulevard corridor, in August for $13.5 million.

Like other recent developments throughout the booming enclave, the project would take advantage of incentives from the city’s Transit Oriented Communities program, which allows bonuses for multi-family projects near public transportation.

Jamison has been converting much of its expansive office portfolio to multifamily projects the past few years. Earlier this year, the firm had an estimated 18 million square feet in its portfolio, valued at $5 billion.

In November, Jamison secured permits to convert a 13-story office building just outside of Koreatown at 2500 Wilshire Boulevard into a mixed-use development with 248 units. Jamison’s most-recent development proposal in Koreatown came in August, when it filed new plans to redevelop an aging strip mall at 800 Western Avenue with 230 apartment units and 12,000 square feet of commercial space.

Source: https://therealdeal.com/la/2018/12/31/jamison-plans-another-mixed-use-building-in-koreatown/

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Kendrick Perkins breaks Rajon Rondo's new contract with the Lakers first

Kendrick Perkins breaks Rajon Rondo's new contract with the Lakers first originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com

After the first day of NBA Free Agency was filled with unprecedented player movement and madness, Saturday has proved to be an encore for what should be the most influential offseason since LeBron James took his talents to South Beach. 

Kawhi Leonard kicked it off by agreeing to sign with the Clippers and then convincing Paul George to force his way to LA via trade. As the fallout from those two moves rippled throughout the league and reporters like Adrian Wojnarowski and Chris Haynes broke transactions left and right, former Celtic Kendrick Perkins got in on the fun. 

Perkins reported Saturday afternoon that former teammate Rajon Rondo would be returning to the Lakers before anyone else did. 

Woj then confirmed what Perkins tweeted a few minutes later. Rondo re-signed on a two-year deal to play with LeBron James, Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins. 

It's pretty obvious how Perkins got the information. He and Rondo played together in Boston for four-and-a-half seasons, winning a title in 2008 over the Lakers. Perk and Rondo had dinner with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Sam Cassell on Thursday, so maybe that's where Rondo told everyone what he planned to do if Leonard signed with the Clippers. 

Perkins is hoping to enter the NBA coaching ring, but considering his connections with current players, maybe he has a future as an NBA insider. 

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Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/kendrick-perkins-breaks-rajon-rondos-203725758.html?src=rss

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“When We Were Young”: On Jeanne McCulloch’s “All Happy Families”

DECEMBER 6, 2018

“A WOMAN WALKS into the sea.”

So begins Jeanne McCulloch’s shimmering gem of a memoir, All Happy Families, which elegantly recounts the unraveling of three unions: her first marriage, that of her parents, and that of her first in-laws. The memoir also tells the story of a summer house in East Hampton, New York, where all three marriages intersected, and which has itself been dismantled.

McCulloch has had a long and storied career in publishing, first as a managing editor at the Paris Review, then at Tin House, where she was a senior editor and the founding editorial director of Tin House Books, and currently as co-founding director of the Todos Santos Writers Workshop. I have known McCulloch personally since we were both in college, and she was my editor for an interview I conducted for the Paris Review. Although she has written many articles and essays over the years, this is her first book. It was worth waiting for. I don’t imagine McCulloch could have told this story as completely, or as well, until now.

I met McCulloch’s mother on a few occasions — she was charming, well-read, high-spirited at times, yet worried about her children — and even visited the McCulloch summer house back in the 1980s, when a large part of the story is set. To me, it seemed like a dream of summer. I can certainly report that McCulloch’s descriptions ring true to time and place, but I did not know what was playing out behind the scenes, then and there.

All Happy Families is so much more than snapshots in a family album. It is an unflinching look at the darkness that tears at lives that appear, at first, so filled with promise and joy. They are like kites being flown at the beach: pulling ever upward before suddenly crashing into the surf. McCulloch’s great-grandfather was a business partner of Thomas Edison, and, as a result, her father was wealthy enough that he did not need to work for a living; after graduating from Yale he traveled the world, served in the OSS during World War II (the precursor to the CIA), and eventually became president of The English Speaking Union, whose monthly newsletter he published and edited. He was what McCulloch calls a hyperpolyglot — a person who speaks an astonishing number of languages. He spoke nine fluently and was capable of holding a conversation in another 10. But, as McCulloch details, alcoholism ruled his life. He spent the mornings at home, then dressed and went out for the afternoon, before returning in time for his childrens’ return from school. He would have his scotch in hand when they entered the house, and the glass would remain filled until nighttime. McCulloch’s parents led an active and colorful social life — one in which her mother was forced to gloss over her husband’s alcohol-induced embarrassments. McCulloch and her two sisters also took as a given their father’s occasional, and then more frequent, lapses.

Without giving away the book’s most powerful moments, McCulloch’s father’s drinking was responsible for the dissolution of her parent’s marriage, and would be responsible, in great part, for his dramatic early death. McCulloch’s mother was, in many ways, the bulwark of the family, convinced of her rectitude, the way of the world, and the appearances she wanted her family to maintain. McCulloch does not stint in her portrait of her mother’s strong will. Here is how she describes her:

My mother was tall, taller than I; her face had not softened with age but grown more angular, more defined. Her skin was delicate, aged over time like a sheet washed and dried too many times in the sun. Though now slightly stooped, she still strode with the assurance of someone who held herself strong against the world, used to getting her own way.

Gradually, McCulloch’s story broadens to include Dean, her first husband, and Raymond and Helen, her in-laws from Maine, who are as bound by their own customs and ways (including the proper recipe for a successful New England clambake) as the McCullochs are in theirs.

With this cast of characters in mind, one might ask, why should we sympathize with the problems of the wealthy? However, All Happy Families transcends its setting amid the bearers of white privilege to become a universal work about loss — the loss we all feel as we recall summers past, marriages broken, parents in decline. It captures the double vision of retrospect, the way we, as adults, see things clearly both as we believed them to be and as they really were.

What is especially striking about McCulloch’s narrative is its lack of anger; although she in no way minimizes her parents’ individual faults, she is remarkably generous in her portrayals of them. We get the charm of her eccentric father, who takes the family on trips abroad where he can deploy his languages and teach his children words and phrases in each. McCulloch’s father also wrote stories for her, about an Octopus named Franklin, who spends much of his time in a bar, drinking rounds of drinks with one clasped in each of his eight tentacles. One of the Franklin stories is included in the memoir in its entirety. The stories are strange, not really for children — or only in the way that Edward Gorey or Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) is for children — but they express her father’s love of language and a quirkiness that seems of another time. McCulloch also devotes several scenes to the enduring bond she enjoyed with her mother, which reflect their shared experience, despite their differences, as sisters, brides, wives, and mothers:

Together we stood side by at the window and watched the waves break in even curls of foam. The glinting sunlight made crazy diamonds across the water.

“Look,” she [McCulloch’s mother] said then. “At the end of the day, that’s what we do. We march on. We don’t dwell. If I’ve done my job right, that’s what I’ve taught you. There’s always tomorrow. Right?”

McCulloch’s decision to include her in-laws and their marriage as part of the narrative adds an extra dimension to the book. On the one hand it presents a counterpoint, an outside standard against which to assess her family. On the other hand, when Dean’s parents’ marriage also fails, it goes to bolster the book’s central Tolstoyan contention: all seemingly happy families have their own stories of personal loss.

In a recent book appearance at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California, McCulloch described memoir as using the techniques of fiction to tell a personal narrative. One fiction-like element in the book is the summer house itself, which serves as the connective tissue for all the narratives, across time, and becomes a character that suffers its own demise.

What elevates All Happy Families to the realm of literature is the quality of McCulloch’s style. Each sentence is beautifully crafted, at times calling to mind the writing of the late James Salter, whom McCulloch credits as inspiration in the acknowledgments. The prose has the same quality as the light in East Hampton — clear, bright, with moments of sharp focus and stretches shrouded in the gauzy, late afternoon haze of reflection:

When we were young, all summer mothers used to stand at the rail station on Friday evening waiting for the train from Penn Station, the weekly Cannonball, as it was called, to deliver the fathers from the city. I remember the mothers in their brightly colored flowery shifts, hair frosted silvery in the manner of the model Jean Shrimpton and freshly done in neat arrangements behind matching headbands […] Though my sisters and I had no father working in the city during the week, sometimes we would go along with friends — it was always a special occasion …

In All Happy Families, a woman walks into the sea, and a writer comes into her own.

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Tom Teicholz is a writer living in Los Angeles.

Source: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-we-were-young-on-jeanne-mccullochs-all-happy-families/

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Brooks + Scarpa-Designed Apartments Break Ground in North Hollywood

Developers Hillock Land Company and Luminor Properties have broken ground on a mixed-use apartment complex in North Hollywood - the second joint venture between the two firms.

The project, which is replacing a small office building at 11301-11321 Camarillo Street, will consist of a five-story structure featuring 60 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments - including six for very low-income households - above approximately 2,800 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.  Plans also call for a central courtyard, a community room, and 81 parking spaces at-grade and in a basement garage.

Brooks + Scarpa is designing the podium-type development, which will be clad mostly with corrugated aluminum screening.  The project's highlight is a large opening facing south toward Camarillo Street, providing private open space with a connection to the surrounding neighborhood.

Completion is anticipated in June 2020, according to a representative of Luminor Properties.

In Valley Village, Luminor and Hillock are in the midst of construction on a similar 19-unit development at 11700 Magnolia Boulevard.

Source: https://urbanize.la/post/brooks-scarpa-designed-apartments-break-ground-north-hollywood

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Southern California Edison Not Accepting Full Blame For Thomas Fire

These utility poles along Highway 150 near Santa Paula were burned in the Thomas Fire in December 2017. (Photo by Sharon McNary/LAist

The official cause of the Thomas Fire, which burned nearly 1,000 homes in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties last December, has still not been officially announced.

But this week, Southern California Edison said its equipment was involved in the fire at one of the two known ignition points, near Santa Paula.

It stopped short of accepting the full blame however, saying that it hasn't been able to do a full investigation, because Cal Fire had confiscated utility equipment such as power poles where one portion of the blaze had started, along Koenigstein Road in Santa Paula.

Several lawsuits have already been filed against SCE alleging its power lines sparked the fire.

SPECIFICALLY, WHAT HAS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON SAID?

Pedro Pizarro, CEO of SCE, parent company Edison International, made the announcement Tuesday during a quarterly investors conference call. He complained that Cal Fire was not permitting SCE's own fire investigators to view the confiscated equipment.

"Cal Fire has pieces of evidence that we don't, and they may come up with conclusions that, in the end, we may agree with or may not agree with," Pizarro said.

For that reason, he said the company could not conclude that its equipment was actually at fault.

The company did not address whether its equipment was involved in the other ignition point, near Anlauf Canyon Road in Santa Paula.

WHY IS SCE DISCLOSING THIS NOW, BEFORE OTHER INVESTIGATIONS ARE CONCLUDED?

The Ventura County Fire Department is still investigating the fires with several other agencies, and none has announced an official cause.

Pizarro said SCE had not made the announcement to get ahead of fire officials, but because its investigators had taken their inquiry as far as they could without having access to the confiscated equipment. He said he felt the information should be shared with investors and the public.

Pizarro and another executive said the company was likely to record a loss due to its equipment's role in the Thomas Fire and that it was still unclear whether the company's $1 billion in insurance could cover the loss, or whether any of it would be passed on to investors or even to customers.

Because there are two ignition points, it's also unclear what portion of financial liability for the fire would be assigned to Edison if it were found to be responsible for one ignition point, and not the other.

WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO PINPOINT THE EXACT CAUSE OF THE FIRE?

It matters because Edison customers could be on the hook for billions of dollars in damages if state fire investigators and utility regulators rule the company's equipment was at fault.

But if it was caused by negligence, the money could come out of shareholder profits.

Under California law, a utility must pay all the damages from a fire that its equipment causes (and its shareholders must pay in case of negligence).The legal principle is known as "inverse condemnation".

Edison and other big utilities in California wanted to overturn that principal during the last legislative session. They failed, but the law that did get passed, SB901, creates a new Catastrophic Wildfire Cost and Recovery commission that will examine ways to "more fairly allocate risks associated with increased wildfires," SCE spokesman Steve Conroy said.

This story is part of Elemental: Covering Sustainability, a multimedia collaboration between Cronkite News, Arizona PBS, KJZZ, KPCC, Rocky Mountain PBS and PBS SoCal.

Source: http://www.laist.com/2018/10/31/southern_california_edison_says_its_equipment_was_involved_with_the_thomas_fire_but_doesnt_take_full.php

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Oprah's Favorite Things 2018: Popular gift guide is larger than ever with 50 under $50

Oprah's doing her part to get everyone in the holiday spirit. Her eponymous magazine has released Oprah's Favorite Things, one of the most anticipated gift guides of the season.

The list was unveiled Wednesday as part of Good Morning America's "Deals and Steals with Tory Johnson."

Each year the media icon curates a list of dozens of items that have earned her stamp of approval, whether they be cool gadgets, beauty products or kitchen accessories. In addition to catering to diverse interests, it includes a wide range of prices. O, The Oprah Magazine selected 107 products, making the list the longest it's ever been. This year, the list includes 50 items under $50.

Can you believe it? Halloween is behind us. Elections have passed & we're into “the most wonderful time of the year”! I’ve been busy curating delights for foodies, fashionistas, techies, EVERYBODY! Please enjoy more than a few of my Faaaavorite Things. https://t.co/lETHs8frVC pic.twitter.com/Ax90t2JH4S

— Oprah Winfrey (@Oprah) November 7, 2018

Here are highlights from the list.

Popinsanity Artisanal Popcorn: Popcorn Gift Bag & Tins Cost: $30 to $180 Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

EMPOWERED by Maya J: Bracelets Cost: $38 Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

Vionic: Gemma Mule & Plush Slippers Cost: $60-$80 Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

Echo: Faux Fur Vest Cost: $89

Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

LA RELAXED: Jumpsuit Cost: $168 Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

truMedic: InstaShiatsu + Foot Massager Cost: $199 Click here for a 50% off "Good Morning America" deal valid on 11/7 only.

Source: https://abc7.com/shopping/here-are-oprahs-favorite-things-this-year/4638625/

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Meet Alvaro Santos from Mariposa-Nabi Community Garden

Mariposa-Nabi Community Garden opened its doors in 2012. It began as a “Little Green Fingers” garden, funded by First5LA, planned to educate young children in healthy eating habits and growing healthy food. It’s now run by the parents of these children. One of these amazing parents is Alvardo Santos. He first stepped into the garden on Fathers’ Day 2014 to help plant his family’s plot and rotate the soil for a new harvest. “I just wanted to see green and flowers,”  he said.

Since his initial involvement, Alvaro has stepped up as the head of the compost committee for Mariposa-Nabi. Thanks to a recent grant from the City of Los Angeles, and with the help of LA Compost and the LA Conservation Corps, Mariposa-Nabi is one of ten community gardens that received composting bins to encourage residents to drop off their food waste and help community garden members build compost for their plants. Alvaro attended each workshop and is now proud of what he’s been creating for the garden.

“We learned that you can’t cultivate what you don’t grow and that the compost is for those who need it the most, which are the plants,” he said.

Alvaro is proud of the relationships he has built with local coffee shops that donate coffee grounds and he brings food scraps from the restaurant in which he works.

Alvaro enjoys investigating what he can grow and how to grow certain plants. His favorite plants to grow are lettuce and basil, which his family shared are their favorites, since he prepares dishes for them at home.

Mariposa-Nabi Community Garden is located at 961 S Mariposa Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90006.

By Diana Campos-Jimenez

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Source: http://lagardencouncil.org/meet-alvaro-santos-mariposa-nabi-community-garden/

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80-Unit Affordable Housing Development to Replace Three Homes in Canoga Park

A trio of single-family homes in the Canoga Park area could be redeveloped with affordable housing, according to an application filed yesterday with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning.

The three homes, built in the late 1940s and early 1950s, flank a vacant lot at the southeast corner of Owensmouth Avenue and Hart Street.  Plans call for the construction of an 80-unit apartment building - all of which would be affordable housing, save for a manager's unit.

The proposed development would require a zone change, and thus need be review by the Los Angeles City Planning Commission.

Meta Housing Corp. is developing the project at 6940-6958 Owensmouth.

Affordable housing in the nearby Warner Center business district, which has seen the approval of thousands of new apartments due to the generous zoning offered by the Warner Center 2035 Plan, which was adopted with the goal of transforming the staid collection of office parks into a downtown for the West San Fernando Valley.  Los Angeles City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who represents Woodland Hills and Canoga Park, has called for the addition of an inclusionary housing provision to the specific plan that would require developers to include moderate-income and workforce housing in their projects.

Source: https://urbanize.la/post/80-unit-affordable-housing-development-replace-three-homes-canoga-park

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Net-a-Porter promotes sustainable fashion with Net Sustain

Robyn Turk

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Tuesday, June 18 2019

Net-a-Porter announced a new platform to highlight sustainable brands and help shoppers to identify products that are ethically made. Called Net Sustain, the new platform launched on the retailer's website with 26 brands.

The digital luxury fashion retailer has been active in the sustainable fashion movement for some time. Amongst other pledges, the Yoox Net-a-Porter Group has already committed to sourcing 100 percent renewable power by 2020, all packaging is made from FSC certified cardboard and it has been a member of the international Fur Free Retailer Program since 2016.

Products and brands featured in Net Sustain are displayed in a dedicated section of Net-a-Porter's website. It will introduce new drops throughout the season, and currently features exclusive capsules from Stella McCartney, Mother of Pearl x BBC Earth and Maggie Marilyn.

Of the nearly 500 products on Net Sustain, each item meet sat least one of five key attributes. According to a company press release, these attributes include considered materials, considered processes, reducing waste, locally made and craft and community.

"This is an important milestone in our sustainability journey at Net-a-Porter," global buying director Elizabeth von der Goltz said in a statement. "Our sustainable edit provides our customers with the knowledge they need, understanding that they can trust that these brands have been carefully reviewed and meet our criteria for inclusion.

"Our aim is to give a voice to the brands that are truly making positive changes by providing them with a platform to highlight their best practice."

Photo: YNAP

Source: https://fashionunited.com/news/fashion/net-a-porter-promotes-sustainable-fashion-with-net-sustain/2019061828380

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LaVar Ball rips Luke Walton, claims son Lonzo better than LeBron James

LaVar Ball rips Luke Walton, claims son Lonzo better than LeBron James originally appeared on nbcsportsbayarea.com

One could be biased when it comes to their own children. This turns into an extreme case when talking about LaVar Ball. 

Speaking of LaVar, his Wednesday interview on ESPN's Undisputed might leave you shaking your head.

He threw some shade at Lakers coach Luke Walton saying: "Doesn't matter how many players you get. If you don't got the coach, you out of luck."

LaVar then said the Lakers couldn't win a championship without his son, Lonzo -- despite the team possessing four-time NBA MVP LeBron James. LaVar pushed the envelope with this statement: 

OK then ... 

A bit bold, and the timing around the NBA trade deadline couldn't be more coincidental. Warriors fan have to love all the drama surrounding the Lakers.

Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/lavar-ball-rips-luke-walton-190731848.html?src=rss

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A-frame Eichler in Thousand Oaks has five bedrooms, pool for $1.1M

Developed by Joseph Eichler and designed by architect A. Quincy Jones, this Thousand Oaks residence offers the timeless good looks of a midcentury modern with upgrades that provide more contemporary convenience.

Built in 1964, the five-bedroom house has an A-frame shape that rises from the entry to the wall of glass that marks the end of the family room, creating high ceilings and increasing the natural light inside. The post and beam house also retains an atrium, globe lights, and mahogany paneling, all original to the home.

More contemporary features include double-paned windows throughout, an updated kitchen, central air conditioning, radiant heating, and three bathrooms, thanks to a conversion of an original addition intended for use as an art studio.

The five-bedroom house last sold in 2008 for $820,000, public records show. It’s now listed for $1.119 million.

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Source: https://la.curbed.com/2019/3/1/18246556/eichler-thousand-oaks-five-bedrooms-pool-for-sale

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Made by foot: Mexican designer overcomes disability in style

When Adriana Macias graduated from law school, she found no firm was interested in hiring an attorney without arms.

So Macias, a 41-year-old Mexican woman who was born without them, began working as a writer, playwright, motivational speaker and now a fashion designer who has just launched a new clothing line.

She designed it -- as she does nearly everything -- with her feet. She unveiled her debut collection at Fashion Week Mexico last month, where disabled models strutted the runway -- or rolled down it in wheelchairs -- showing off her fall-winter line of 12 flowing, vibrantly colored designs made so people with disabilities can easily put them on.

She herself uses custom-made clothes that allow her to dress herself using her feet.

"I'm putting out this clothing line with all these details designed to make the clothes accessible, very comfortable, very practical, but also very formal. I wanted (the show) to be inclusive because inclusiveness is a very important issue," she told AFP.

"People should not exist for clothes, clothes should exist for people."

Macias's parents taught her from birth to use her feet for the things other children did with their hands.

Today, she eats, drinks, writes, draws, cooks, cleans and even dresses her three-year-old daughter with her feet and legs.

Sitting cross-legged on her chair, she gestures with her feet when she speaks. Sometimes she rests her chin on her toes, which sport rings and nail polish, or uses them to brush back her long hair.

She used prosthetic arms until she was 20, but had to give them up when the added weight gave her shoulder problems.

"It was tough going off to university without my prostheses, taking off my shoes in class to write. It's considered bad manners to take off your shoes," she said with a smile and her usual lively determination.

She thrived at university anyway, earning a law degree, but got a cold welcome in the professional world.

"No one wanted to hire me," she said.

"Everybody thought it was weird or shocking that someone would show up at an office, take their shoes off and apply for work."

That is when she began writing -- she has published three books and a play -- and also working as a motivational speaker and, now, a designer.

She even holds a Guinness world record, for "most birthday candles lit with the feet in one minute": 11.(AFP)

Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP

Source: https://fashionunited.com/news/fashion/made-by-foot-mexican-designer-overcomes-disability-in-style/2019052327978

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Doctor Says She Was Racially Profiled on Delta Flight

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford said she was on a Delta Air Lines flight into Boston Tuesday night when she noticed that a passenger next to her was in distress.

Stanford, who is an African American physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, said she was helping the passenger when her medical credentials were questioned by several flight attendants, even after she showed the flight attendants her medical license.

"She is a highly sought after, highly talented physician," said Dr. Michael Sinha, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. "She has two residencies and two fellowships under her belt."

Shortly after the incident, Stanford sent several tweets about it.

"As a black woman doctor who showed my medical license to help a passenger on DL5935 your flight attendant still did not believe I was a physician," she said in one tweet.

In a statement, Delta said, "We thank Dr. Stanford for her medical assistance on board Republic flight 5935 IN D-BOS, and are sorry for any misunderstanding that may have occurred during her exchange with the in-flight crew."

Sinha is an advocate for gender equity with degrees in medicine and law who works with Stanford through the American Medical Association and the Massachusetts Medical Society.

"Myself and a couple of my colleagues really want this to become a national issue and to have this conversation again," he said.

Sinha also said Standford participated in a bias-in-medicine symposium just over a week ago, with her friend, Dr. Tamika Cross — a black OB-GYN who also accused Delta of discrimination in 2016, which sparked the hashtag #whatadoctorlookslike.

After the 2016 incident, Delta stopped requiring attendants to verify medical credentials.

Shilpa Pherwani is CEO of Interactive Business Inclusion Solutions, which works with companies to provide employees with diversity and implicit bias training.

The company is currently working with another major airline to audit its diversity policies.

"Really look at training, that gets to how you are recruiting and hiring," Pherwani said. "How you do career development. How you're giving performance evaluations, feedback, how do you develop your people, is it an equitable environment?"

In another tweet, Stanford said she spoke with Delta, which promised to address the incident and thanked her for being a Sky Miles member. She is unsure whether any further changes will be made.

Delta also said the plane on which the incident occurred is operated by Republic, a Delta Connection carrier.

"We are proud of Dr. Stanford for immediately coming to the aid of an ailing passenger but are dismayed that her credentials and qualifications were questioned," Massachusetts General Hospital President Peter L. Slavin said in a statement.

Source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Massachusetts-General-Hospital-Doctor-Says-She-Was-Racially-Profiled-While-Helping-Patient-on-Delta-Flight-499354991.html

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Here's why David Ortiz is confident Red Sox can repeat as World Series champs

Here's why David Ortiz is confident Red Sox can repeat as World Series champs originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com

No Major League Baseball team has repeated as World Series champions since the New York Yankees' three-peat ending in 2000, and the Boston Red Sox haven't accomplished the feat since World War I.

The Red Sox enter the 2019 season as the defending World Series winners. Going back-to-back will be an extraordinary challenge, especially with the American League having so many quality teams, but one of Boston's retired legends is pretty optimistic about his old club reclaiming October glory.

"Why not?" Ortiz told MLB.com's Ian Browne. "And the confidence level is even better than last year. You look at these guys. I've been talking to the hitters side, J.D. (Martinez), Mookie (Metts), (Xander) Bogaerts, (Jackie Bradley Jr.). I had a five-minute conversation with all of them and all they want to do is listen. They are in that beast mode where it's beautiful. I love seeing that."

The Red Sox have returned most of the roster that won a franchise record 108 regular season games and ultimately beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 World Series. The only major piece missing is closer Craig Kimbrel, who remains unsigned on the free-agent market. 

With the roster largely intact and the team motivated to keep its top rival, the Yankees, from reaching the World Series for the first time since 2009, the Red Sox should again be one of baseball's top teams in 2019.

"To be honest with you, this ballclub looks so good, man, from head to toe," Ortiz said, per Browne. "It's like you walk into that clubhouse and you can feel the good vibe, you can feel that. If there's one person who can explain that, it's myself because I was in the clubhouse for a long time, and I have an even better feeling this year than the feeling I had last year."

These comments from Ortiz should encourage any Red Sox fans worried about a possible letdown after such a historic 2018 campaign. And a lot of credit goes to Red Sox manager Alex Cora, who created and maintained a player-friendly environment last season that clearly had a positive impact on the clubhouse and the team's on-field performance.

It sounds like, at least judging by Ortiz's comments, that Cora has his players in a locked-in mindset with the goal of doing everything possible to repeat as champions.

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Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-why-david-ortiz-confident-143837613.html?src=rss