••• Today’s agenda for the city’s Architectural Board of Review includes a few items of note. First: a new look for the “new four-story, 46-unit apartment building with 19 automobile parking spaces and 46 bicycle parking spaces”—i.e., aspirational California math—at 15 S. Hope Avenue (where Aga John Oriental Rugs was). “The average unit size is 703 square feet and proposed as 100% affordable.” It’s an improvement over the previous design and a breath of fresh air. The architect is L.A.’s OfficeUntitled.
••• Second, there’s the “new-mixed use development, consisting of a 5-story, 44-unit residential apartment building and 4-story and basement self-storage facility” at 102 W. De La Guerra Street (between Chapala and De La Vina, with the self-storage going inside the former Frontier building at Chapala and Canon Perdido). It’s also an improvement, but more character would be welcome.
••• Last and also least, according to the consent agenda, the Shell gas station at 3060 State Street (at Calle Palo Colorado) is getting a remodeled and expanded convenience store that will be rebranded as a SnakRun. What’s uglier: the name or the logo? P.S. At other locations, the car wash component is called WashRun, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that shows up here, too.
••• On November 23, the Riviera Theatre will host a screening of No Country for Old Men and a conversation with actor Josh Brolin, who has a new memoir (and a house here). I’ve never seen No Country for Old Men, because I abhor violence, so here’s another clip from Flirting With Disaster.
••• According to Radius Commercial Real Estate‘s Q3 report, “World Market has placed its 23,976-square-foot property at 610 State Street [at Cota] on the market; while 24 Hour Fitness is vacating its substantial space at 820 State Street in 2025.”
••• The owners of Hotel El Roblar in Ojai, which is coming along very nicely, bought the former World University building across N. Ventura Street and intend to open a spa there.
••• Through January 5 at the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art in Solvang: “The Visual Feast, a gallery show featuring esteemed artist Roland Petersen. As a Danish-born American painter, printmaker, and professor emeritus at U.C. Davis, Petersen’s career spans over 50 years with works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern art, among many.” Below: “The Rains Came.”
················
Sign up for the Siteline email newsletter and you’ll never miss a post.
Comment: