March Market Report + Neighborhood News - 3.12.2010

March 12, 2010 – 8:15 am
The Playa Vista condo resale market continues to be very lively with only 30 active condo listings remaining in inventory.  Attractively priced properties appear to leap onto the market, quickly receive offers then, and immediately go pending within the first two weeks.  On Sundays, open houses draw in dozens of potential buyers as the Spring market, usually one of the busiest buying seasons, gets a head start.   For example, last week, a 1,300 square foot, short sale condo was listed on the market for $399,900.  The listing agent clearly used pricing as the chosen strategy to attract buyer’s attention. It worked. Just one week after the townhouse held its first broker’s open house, the owner received an amazing 16 offers.  Needless to say, the property is now pending in escrow with one lucky buyer.   In the previous newsletter, I reported about the March 3rd meeting in Playa Vista among Councilman, Bill Rosendahl, ...

Playa Vista second phase wins LA planning committee approval - DailyBreeze.com - 3.9.2010

March 9, 2010 – 8:15 am
Playa Vista second phase wins LA planning committee approval  DailyBreeze.com – March 9, 2010 Playa Vista's long-litigated second phase, a mixed-use development of shops, homes, open space and offices, won support Tuesday from a Los Angeles City Council committee. After hearing from both supporters and opponents who had packed the council chambers, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee recommended approval for the mixed-use plan known as The Village. Described as "the heart" of the new community between Westchester and Marina del Rey, The Village has been stalled since 2007, when an appellate court found three main deficiencies with its environmental impact report and called for a supplemental review. The project planned for 111 acres along Jefferson Boulevard initially won council approval in 2004. The committee's direction Tuesday afternoon came after more than an hour of public testimony and a last-minute request by the City Attorney's Office to delay action on the issue for ...

Playa Vista Neighborhood News - 3.5.2010

March 5, 2010 – 7:25 am
There have been many new developments in recent Playa Vista community news, so I thought I would share some of the updates with you and report more about the real estate market next week. Wednesday night, more than 350 Playa Vista residents united in a tremendous show of encouragement for Councilman, Bill Rosendahl, as he pledged his support for the Village plan, already unanimously approved by the City Planning Commission.  Next Tuesday, the city council will cast its first vote on the Village and I will share all the exciting new developments with you as they unfold. One other thrilling development in the neighborhood is that the Los Angeles Unified School District has taken the next step in establishing a new K-5 elementary school.  According to the latest issue of The News of Playa Vista, Los Angeles, “On January 22, 2010, LAUSD became the owner of the four-acre school site adjacent to ...

L.A. City Council planning committee to review recirculated EIR for the Village at Playa Vista - The Argonaut

March 4, 2010 – 1:29 pm
L.A. City Council planning committee to review recirculated EIR for the Village at Playa Vista The Argonaut – March 4, 2010 One of the most anticipated environmental analyses in recent years will soon be heard by a Los Angeles City Council committee that will help decide whether the second stage of a Westside development will gain steam or lose traction.The recirculated environmental impact report for the Village, Playa Vista’s commercial component of its planned community structure, will come before the city’s Land Use and Planning Committee Tuesday, March 9th. Playa Capital, the developers of the Village and Phase I, the residential component of the affluent bedroom community, are confident that their document has covered all the necessary bases, and hailed the support of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. “There is tremendous support citywide for the passage of the Village,” said Steven Sugerman, a Playa Vista spokesman. “The big boost of support, ...