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La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
A 100,000-square-foot Kaiser Permanente medical facility office building (9,300 m 2) opened on September 7, 2017. The facility has a two-mile walking path and outdoor plaza . [ 9 ] A new shopping center complex along with new restaurants and retail stores are also being planned to be built by private developers. [ 10 ]
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Notable landmarks on Roscoe include (from west to east): Roscoe-Valley Circle Park, Orcutt Ranch Horticulture Center, Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Van Nuys Airport, a Budweiser brewery, Panorama City Branch Library, Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center, Wat Thai of Los Angeles, and Verdugo Mountain Park.
Firefighting and recovery efforts continue in the Los Angeles area, where devastating fires have killing at least 28 people, destroyed more than 12,000 structures and prompted evacuation orders ...
South Robertson is an area on the Westside of Los Angeles that is served by the South Robertson neighborhood council. [1] It contains the following city neighborhoods: Beverlywood, Castle Heights, Cheviot Hills, Crestview, La Cienega Heights and Reynier Village. The area is notable as a center for the Jewish community. [2]
La Cienega/Beverly - - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Center, Melrose Avenue Shopping District Fairfax/3rd - The Grove at Farmers Market, Television City, Holocaust Museum LA: La Brea/Beverly - - High-density neighborhood Wilshire/Fairfax - D Line: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Row, High-density neighborhood and retail Wilshire ...
De Soto Avenue was named after Hernando de Soto, a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition into the southeastern United States.Several of the San Fernando Valley's north–south streets were originally named after historic explorers, including De Soto, Balboa, Alvarado, Cabrillo, Cortez, and Diaz, but De Soto Avenue and Balboa Boulevard are the only street names that remain.