Joint ventures: How California’s marijuana laws could change LA’s retail landscape
From the archives: When Derek Peterson’s company Terra Tech closed on two new Southern California properties recently, it likely paid up to 25 percent...
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Joint ventures: How California’s marijuana laws could change LA’s retail landscape
From the winter issue: When Derek Peterson’s company Terra Tech closed on two new Southern California properties recently, it likely paid up to 25 percent...
Will the Cornfields renaissance
live up to its hype?
From the latest issue: For too long, the area known as the Cornfield has been considered no man’s land....
live up to its hype?
How one sleep-deprived lawyer can single-handedly tank LA development
From the summer issue: Robert Silverstein’s office, buried in a large commercial building off of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena,...
Is inclusionary housing a misguided mandate?
Is it legal for cities to require developers to include affordable units in their rental projects? Ever since mega-developer...
Space invaders: Developers team up to tackle LA’s
parking laws
André Bueno has only been back in the Los Angeles area for a few weeks, but one of the...
parking laws
A eulogy for Measure S
From the April issue: In the run-up to the March 7 vote, the “Yes on S” billboards towered over Los Angeles communities like the mega-developments the ballot initiative targeted. But ultimately, that outsized campaign...
The trials and tribulations of Neil Shekhter
From the April issue: Neil Shekhter was once known first and foremost as the kingpin of the largest apartment...
Not a “ploy”: Garcetti bans off-record chats between developers and planning commissioners
Measure S may have been soundly defeated on Tuesday, but a directive signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday morning addresses some of the key issues raised...
LA zoning needs an overhaul, but not by way of Measure S: former planning director
A former Los Angeles Planning Director says Measure S is a hastily drawn, poorly written ballot initiative which will...