West LA Developments

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West LA Development (Culver City, Westwood, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Mar Vista, Marina Del Ray, Playa Vista, Venice Beach, Pacific Palisades)

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New Metro line from USC to Culver City started construction this month.

http://www.metro.net/projects/exposition/

http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2010/apr/26/developers-ride-culver-city-line/

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The new Santa Monica Place is opening August 6, 2010! The journalist in this article fails to realize that open air malls have been in Southern California since the early eighties!

http://santamonicaplace.com/

http://online.wsj.co...eTabs%3Darticle

http://online.wsj.co...s%3Dinteractive

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"Santa Monica Place set to reopen as upscale outdoor shopping venue"

Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, high-end restaurants and an artisanal food marketplace will anchor the renovated shopping center, which opens next Friday.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-santa-monica-place-20100730,0,4003488.story?page=1&track=rss

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"Further consideration of West L.A. project postponed to October"

That appears to be the case with the plan for Bundy Village & Medical Park, which earlier this year prompted street protests, petition drives and hundreds of "Fight Bundy Village" lawn signs from Westchester to Pacific Palisades.

The Los Angeles Planning Commission in March approved the proposed 1.3-million-square-foot complex of medical offices, retail stores and housing despite residents' and business concerns about increased traffic in the busy Olympic Boulevard corridor. Los Angeles City Council's planning and land use management committee was to take up the matter later this month, with a full council vote anticipated soon after.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bundy-village-20100713,0,5949969.story