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WEEKEND EDITION
10.17.15 - 10.18.15 Volume 14 Issue 291
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Council to consider status of the Plaza at Santa Monica BY MATTHEW HALL Daily Press Editor
City Council will hold a special meeting on Oct. 20 to hear updates on the development known as the Plaza at Santa Monica. The project is a 12-story (148 feet), 420,000 square-foot mixeduse development including a 195 room hotel, 206,800 square feet of office space, 42,200 square feet of retail space, 48 affordable housing units, 12,000 square feet of cultural space, 51,000 square feet of pub-
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lic open space, and 1,143 parking spaces in a four-level underground parking lot. The City of Santa Monica owns the property located along Arizona Ave. between 4th and 5th Streets, giving the city unique leverage to control development on the parcel. The development team was tasked with creating a project that was economically viable while meeting several public objectives including ground-floor activation, exceptional architecture, project flexibility and public access to views.
The site currently contains surface parking lots and two banks (Bank of America and Chase Bank). Council has guided the concept for several years starting with choosing the development team in 2013 and selection of the proposed design in 2014. Developers have already presented the project to the Planning Commission and while the project was recommended for a Development Agreement (which is
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The ‘cost’ of Halloween bash artisanal furniture to benefit Meals Local woodworker attempts to make a living selling handmade pieces
on Wheels West BY JEFFREY I. GOODMAN Daily Press Staff Writer
BY JENNIFER MAAS Casey McCafferty used to work in banking where received a paycheck every two weeks. Now he works as a furniture builder where he is paid with less regularity but despite that uncertainty, he is happier now. “I need to make a living and provide for my wife and myself, but I need to do something that I love
Meals on Wheels West brings food to senior citizens, people with disabilities and other needy residents in and around Santa Monica, delivering 80,000-plus meals last year alone. “We serve people of all ages and incomes,” executive director Chris Baca said. “We have clients who live in high-rises on Ocean Avenue and people who live in mobile
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Despite humid conditions that produced some fine mist, workers finished pouring concrete for the refurbished California Incline on Friday. The roadway is being rebuilt to improve seismic safety and will have wider lanes and improved bicycle/pedestrian access. The road is expected to reopen in Spring of 2016.
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