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After a decade without rangers, Elysian Park is getting two. HGTV star Leanne Ford has sold her all-white cabin in Elysian Heights. And more apartments -- 70 of them -- are headed for Sunset.
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Elysian Heights Scene
Waking up to this view in Elysian Heights is a great way to start the day. Thanks to Dave Ptach for sharing the photo.
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Echo Park News & Notes
Elysian Park has been assigned a pair of park rangers for the first time since the positions were lost a decade ago to budget cuts, The Eastsider reported. The two new rangers — Andres De Ocampo and Joseph Fuentes — will be working primarily as ambassadors for the city’s second largest park in addition to patrolling and other duties.
ABC 7 went looking for the cheapest Echo Park rentals and basically couldn't find anything much lower than $2,000 a month. The cheapest of the bunch was a 1-bedroom/1-bathroom in the 1200 block of Court for $1,895 a month. No pets. The most expensive of the low-priced pads? Still a 1-bedroom, but two baths, in the 1300 block of Sunset for $2,495 month.
Last week we told you about Celaya Bakery closing down after nearly 50 years in business. Now, The Eastsider has more details about the closure, the family that owned the Mexican bakery and the new tenant. For those looking for a new panaderia, head to La Espiga at the corner of Glendale Boulevard and Scott for freshly-baked pan dulce, bolillos and other Mexican baked foods.
Echo Park fans of Brooklyn Bagel Bakery can once enjoy their favorite bagels. The bakery reopened three years after a wall collapse and other structural problems forced it to close, according to The Eastsider. The business in neighboring Historic Filipinotown was founded in 1953, and is currently celebrating its 65th anniversary. The business moved to its current location. 2224 Beverly Blvd, in 1965.
The neighborhood's building boom continues. The latest is a 70-unit apartment complex with 35 parking spaces in the 1200 block of Sunset near Marion, according to the Planning Department. The site is currently occupied by some hillside bungalow courts near Guisados. The project, if it receives necessary approvals, will join several others that have been built or are planned for the eastern stretch of Sunset.
Leanne Ford, star of HGTV’s “Restored by the Fords,” has sold her 2-bedroom, 1-bath Elysian Heights home for $1.178 million, according to Redfin. That's $378,000 more than what she paid two years ago. The 1911 cabin-style home was once owned by silent film actress Clara Kimball Young, who had her own production company, reports Curbed. Ford, in one of her signature designer touches, coated the interior in white paint.
If an all-white cabin is not your thing, how about a watermelon-colored apartment complex? The brightly colored, Spanish-Colonial apartment buildings at the corner of Echo Park and Fairbanks are now for sale at $9.2 million. The investors who purchased the property three years ago for $7.2 million painted the exterior a shade of bright pink as part of their plans to make the place look like a "Moroccan boutique hotel." The 1920s-era complex was once known as McCallister Manor and was later dubbed "Big Mama Court," the nickname given by the authors of the 1982 book Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles in “honor of its tenacious manager.”
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Echo Park Agenda
Friday, November 16: Echo Park Farmers Market
Saturday, November 17: Carlos Bulosan Book Club - Filipino American literature
Sunday, November 18: Amy Raasch's Animal Monologues - solo show
Monday, November 19: Pajama Story Time
Tuesday, November 20: Works in Progress - reading
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Crime
Neighborhood crimes during the past week included a theft from a person at Glendale and Park, a robbery in the 700 block of Echo Park Avenue, and brandishing of a weapon at Kent and Bonnie Brae, according to CrimeMapping.com.
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That's It For This Week
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