Santa Monica Daily Press, April 01, 2013

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MONDAY, APRIL 1, MMXIII

Volume 12 Issue 121

San Malicious Daily Press

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS PAM? SEE PAGE ?

We have you fooled

THE APRIL FOOLS’ ISSUE

Geary-designed pier hotel a go Famed architect’s luxury resort intends to give historic landmark shot in arm, lend a little class to the shore BY CHARLIE STEEN Daily Press Winner

SM PIER A wildly innovative luxury hotel

has been envisioned for the historic Santa Monica Pier to give the landmark an iconic centerpiece, it was announced to raucous applause from the audience at Tuesday’s City

Council meeting. Proposed development often draws the ire of residents in the city by the sea, but apparently Frank Geary’s attachment to

City Council approves tiniest apartments in U.S.

the project alone has won over even the most NIMBY of the NIMBYs. SEE HOTEL PAGE 5

Paying the cost to have a great bum

BY TOBIE MAGWIRE

City Hall to charge for use of popular Santa Monica stairs

Daily Press Staff

PICO BLVD Standing on a dirt lot next to

BY LORENZO YAMAS

Santa Monica’s lone Foster’s Freeze, real estate investor Chaz Dominici removes his aviator sunglasses, his eyes wide as he surveys his latest investment. Dominici, a large man with a barrel for a chest, starts dreaming big by, ironically, thinking small — really small. Dominici has just won approval from the Santa Monica City Council to build the nation’s first apartment complex with units that promise to be affordable, and coffinlike. The units, as planned, would measure 10 feet long, 3.5 feet wide and 3 feet tall. “It’s the latest in affordable housing for those who are single, frugal and certainly not

Special to the Daily Press

SEE TINY PAGE 10

New iPad to debut exclusively at Apple shop on promenade

Earl Sweatshirt editor@smdp.com

NO CASH, NO ASS: An attendant punches tickets at the newly-installed turnstile at the base of the famous Santa Monica stairs on Fourth Street at Adelaide Drive.

BY SEAN PENE Special to the Daily Press

NOMA Continuing with its crack down on

THIRD STREET PROMENADE For the first time ever, Apple will release a new product only in Santa Monica. The iPad 5, a project that has been secretly in the works for the past year, will debut at the newly-constructed, all-glass Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade today, Apple officials said. “This is a very exciting time,” Apple CEO Tim Cooke said. “Our research shows that

ALL THEIR OWN

Bob Redfords editor@smdp.com A new skateboard lane has been added to the Ocean Park Boulevard Green Street. It gives skaters a place to be totally radical, dude. The project includes new landscaping, wider sidewalks and less room for cars. Not many residents are digging it, but skaters love it.

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fitness fanatics using public spaces to conduct workouts, city officials have installed a turnstile and stationed an attendant at the base of the famous Santa Monica Stairs, a collection of wooden and concrete staircases that draw thousands of sweaty climbers daily, including many Hollywood celebrities, who want to tone their booties and strengthen their core. Those who want to use the stairs more SEE STAIRS PAGE 7

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