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What should be done about the abandoned project?
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Actually, since you have the artists in residence, why don't you have them get together and develop a beautiful project for the city of Eagle Rock. (Former Resident of Eagle Rock)
TerryQ @ 11:13 AM PST, Nov 6, 2008
Talk about wasted land, just roll down a couple blocks east of this project on Colorado to the huge fenced off grassy lot bought by VONS who leveled all the housing there just so people could see their sign from Figueroa St.. So much potential for something useful in that spot like a Del Taco or an Arbys!
m. smith @ 4:12 PM PDT, Oct 14, 2008
leave the piles — or at least some of the — as "found" art. there's a nice curvilinear progression to their tops, putting me in mind of the tops of Walter DeMaria's Lightning Field pillars. but compare also Expert judgment on markers to deter inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, which Federal Study proposes engineered forms designed to warn against intrusion even thousands of years into the future. let it serve as testimony to asleep-at-the-wheel government. a kind of "Devil's Postpile" in Eagle Rock.
jmcvey, cambridge mass @ 11:49 AM PDT, Oct 12, 2008
To Radical Raul. What was so hot about L.A And Eagle Rock in particular was that all you Radicals, individualists. and trendy in everything shop owners were not not here in droves. It amazes me how you all discover every "Hidden Jewel" in the city and commence to invade it. We original Angelenos and Eagle Rock residents just want our quiet peaceful town back, where everything but five or six business's close at nine at night. We need our sleep for work the next morning.
Lizzie @ 2:14 AM PDT, Oct 11, 2008
The Eagle Rock council and DOBS knew this plan was not feasible. But hungary for the all mighty tax revenue dollar the project would bring. The ERCC, LA department of building and safety ramrodded the project through. Knowing it not a safe thing to do. Now my Eagle Rock neighbors who lived here longer then the trendies are left with a crumbling yard and a decline in property value. WE Eagle Rock OGs can do without Lofts,bars salons and coffee shops. We oldsters make our coffee at home like always.Thank You, Fadel Hamdan,LA DBAS. Oh Yeah, Trendies. when you leave, Please leave Eagle Rock like it was before you came. Just a nice quiet town.
Lizzie @ 1:51 AM PDT, Oct 11, 2008
Are "Completion Bonds" required for all projects both residential and commercial? Only projects of a certain size? I live in Glassell Park and we struggle with abandoned housing developments and I wonder what the recourse is for having the land returned to its pre-construction state. . .
Blair @ 3:18 PM PDT, Oct 10, 2008
There's a construction eyesore in my neighborhood-on Temple Street between Belmont and Union. The company knocked down homes, dug a huge hole in the ground, poured some concrete, and now it just sits there for 2 years. People throw their garbage over the scaffolding into the hole, it is full of graffitti and the fences to keep people out are perpetually broken. It's a real mess. Doesn't anyone have to take responsibility for this? Why is it okay to just leave it?
michaelat @ 11:35 AM PDT, Oct 10, 2008
What a joke. Eagle Rock is, and has been, the most corrupt part of the city-developers do whatever they want. About time it backfired. people in eagle rock just don't have the guts to make their views known
perry diaz @ 1:37 AM PDT, Oct 10, 2008
Lifetime resident and owner of home that has "water soluable soil" under foundation. Civil Engineers and much $$ later Caisons to bedrock were used to stablize the home. The City building permit should never have been issued. Eagle Rock and land owners at risk should file lawsuit with City for lack of due diligence on this project
Phyllis Robbins @ 1:07 AM PDT, Oct 9, 2008
More likely than not the city engineers know that any action could potentially cause more land erosian and slides. I suspect the soil is "water soluable" given the history of the hillside over the last 60+ years of erosion. Lifetime resident and owner of home that has "water soluable soil" under foundation. Civil Engineers and much $$ later Caisons to bedrock were used to stablize the home. The City building permit should never have been issued. Eagle Rock and land owners at risk should file lawsuit with City for lack of due diligence on this project.
Phyllis Robbins @ 1:07 AM PDT, Oct 9, 2008
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