By PAM WIGHT Special to the Daily Press
DOWNTOWN — It was lights out for many businesses and residents of the Third Street Promenade area this week when the failure of
Sampling the menus of the best restaurants in Santa Monica would normally take days and hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars.
But at the Taste of Santa Monica this weekend,
2003 Santa Monica Convention and Visitor’s Bureau: Budget: $1.5 million Amount brought into TOT: $19.5million 3,544 hotel rooms Newport Beach Convention and Vistor’s Bureau: Budget:
This past week, Q-line asked: Do you think the Chamber of Commerce and its endorsements will represent your issues and views in the upcoming election? Why, or why not?
City Hall mulls whether to throw switch back on
CITY HALL — Offices here are dark today, as they have been every other Friday for more than a decade. But that
COMMUNITY PROFILES
By PAM WIGHT Special to the Daily Press
SECOND STREET — Tod Lipka four years ago decided he was no longer satisfied with a career that promotes self interest.
By GENEVA WHITMARSH Daily Press Staff Writer
PROMENADE — Stephen Bradford winds his way through the thousands of people walking the Third Street Promenade and stops to chat with a guitarist
Westside company blames LA for financial woes
100 WILSHIRE BLVD. — A Santa Monica law firm plans to legally take on the largest public utility company in the United States.
Greene,
Commercial property in Santa Monica holds tight
By JOHN F. MULLER Special to the Daily Press
COLORADO AVENUE — With the addition of one of Santa Monica’s largest office complexes,
Plans to revamp the struggling Brentwood Country Mart inch forward
By GENEVA WHITMARSH Daily Press Staff Writer
26TH STREET — The long-cherished Brentwood Country Mart is suffering from an identity
RETAILERS CRY FOR SOLID GROUND
By JOHN F. MULLER Special to the Daily Press
While retailers and shoppers have continued to file out of Santa Monica Place, plans to renovate
Santa Monica Place holds steady in sales tax revenue
If the first quarter of 2004 is any indication, the Santa Monica economy appears to be on an upswing.
Sales tax
