The City Council last Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Fairmont Miramar Hotel renovation process to commence. The next step is environmental review and negotiations that will culminate in a development agreement to substantially rebuild and enlarge the property.
It seems that at least a couple of fairly large, privately-owned fitness organizations have found a great, free place to hold their exercise classes and boot camps — Palisades Park.
The redevelopment of the Fairmont-Miramar hotel is on the agenda for tomorrow’s City Council meeting. A “standing room only” crowd generated plenty of heated comment at a Feb.
The civil disruption on Santa Monica College’s campus made national news a couple of weeks ago. Students accompanied by a number of outside agitators demanded to be heard at a SMC Board of Trustees meeting where a bold, two-tiered tuition plan approved at a previous meeting was being discussed.
The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District school board has another embarrassment on its hands. This time its the March 20 resignation of Joan Chu Reese, vice chair of the district’s Financial Oversight Committee.
The Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights (SMRR) leadership was up to its old tricks a week ago on Sunday. The occasion was a meeting where endorsements for a candidate for the 50th Assembly District primary was, or wasn’t, on the agenda.
As predicted last week, the City Council donned one of its many costumes to play the roll of Unite Here! Local 11 union negotiator and approve an oversized hotel for the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Seventh Street in return for wage concessions from the developer.
The developer of 710 Wilshire Blvd., also known as the “Alex Gorby Hotel Project,” will be before the City Council tomorrow night for approval of a Development Agreement (DA).
If you think that there’s already too much development going on in Santa Monica, be afraid. Be very afraid. With the dissolution of the redevelopment agencies (RDAs) across the state, Santa Monica’s politicians and bureaucrats are desperately looking for ways to continue their spending spree.
In one of its smarter moves, the City Council last Tuesday night postponed a decision on what to do about holiday displays in Palisades Park pending further review.
Planning Commission Chair Pro Tem Gerda Newbold laid down the law. After the commission forced developers of a proposed 285-room hotel at Seventh Street and Wilshire Boulevard into adopting wage/benefit levels for hotel workers a couple of weeks ago, she said, “It puts projects on notice that this w
There’s evidence that City Hall’s housing policy of placing low/mid-income family public housing projects primarily in the Pico neighborhood (east of Lincoln Boulevard and west of Centinela Avenue between Pico and Santa Monica boulevards) is a major factor in maintaining racially imbalanced schools
