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Landlord must uphold transgender tenant's rights
Question: I have been renting an apartment to a man named Michael, who recently asked me to start calling him Michelle because, he says, he now identifies as a woman. He has also started wearing makeup and women's clothing. Both the name change and...
Tags: Discrimination, Rentals, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Midtown Shopping Center to see improvements after land sale
The owner of a mid-Los Angeles shopping center that was destroyed by rioters in the 1990s and then rebuilt has acquired more land and seeks to expand and upgrade the mall. Plans call for making the Midtown Shopping Center a more family-friendly meeting...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Bank of America Corp., Services and Shopping, CVS Corp., Ross Stores Incorporated
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Santa Monica Clock Tower building sold to Italian investors
The Clock Tower, a Santa Monica office building beloved by Westside creative firms, has been snapped up by Italian investors who specialize in buying trophy historic properties. Clad in white terra cotta, the 12-story Art Deco-style office high-rise on...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Human Interest, Arts, Fine Arts, Flatiron
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New York firm soon to be downtown L.A.'s biggest landlord
Five of the 10 tallest skyscrapers in Los Angeles will soon be controlled by a Manhattan real estate company in one of the biggest shake-ups of the downtown commercial real estate market in decades. Brookfield Office Properties Inc. has agreed to pay...
Tags: Maguire Properties Inc., Realty, Property, Services and Shopping, Bank of America Corp.
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Ambitious plan would remake Yosemite National Park
The majestic landscape of Yosemite National Park — carved out of granite and shaped by powerful natural forces over the eons — is timeless and untouchable. Other attractions in the park … not so much. Some of Yosemite's much-loved...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Rivers, Manufacturing and Engineering, Bodies of Water, Sports
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Sweeping earthquake safety rules imposed in San Francisco
Some of the most extensive damage and loss of life from recent earthquakes in California have occurred in apartment houses where dwellings sit on top of a ground-level parking garage or a storefront. The shaking undermines the bottom floor, causing the...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Gavin Newsom, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Business
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Pacoima shopping center intended to boost rookie entrepreneurs
At a busy but nondescript intersection in Pacoima, a real estate developer is trying to help revive the San Fernando Valley neighborhood with an open-air market and retail complex aimed at small entrepreneurs. The complex on Van Nuys Boulevard at San...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, New Products, Realty
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Musical chairs: Jessica Simpson buys Osbourne home
In a multimillion-dollar twist on celebrity musical chairs, singer-actress Jessica Simpson has purchased Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne's estate in Hidden Hills for $11.5 million, public records show. The Cape Cod-inspired mansion, built in 2001, sits on a 2....
Tags: Jerry Weintraub, Castle (tv program), Entertainment, Movies, Jensen Ackles
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Downtown L.A. drive-in theater finds a new home
A fledgling rooftop drive-in theater in downtown Los Angeles — a recent cause celebre for urbanites — has landed safely on its wheels after getting booted from its home atop a parking structure in the historic core. To make way for a new...
Tags: Hybrid Vehicles, Jay Leno, Realty, Goodfellas (movie), Entertainment
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L.A.'s car rental rates among the lowest in the U.S.
Here’s another reason to love L.A.: Car rental rates in the City of Angels are among the lowest of any major city in the country. The average car rental rate in Los Angeles over the last 12 months was $30 a day, according to a survey by...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Passenger Cars
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Do Southwest Airlines ads portend new fees?
Once known as an upstart carrier, Southwest Airlines recently launched an ad campaign that has some airline industry experts wondering whether it signals a new direction — and new fees — at the nation's largest domestic airline. The new ads,...
Tags: AirTran, Los Angeles Hotels, Southwest Airlines Co., Satellite and Cable Service, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Former Desmond's downtown warehouse to become creative offices
A showplace of the early automotive age in downtown Los Angeles a century ago is set to be revived by new owners who have ambitious plans to turn it into offices, a restaurant and a nightclub near L.A. Live. Long vacant, the stocky five-story building at...Tags: Apartments, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Services and Shopping
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