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so yah. lots happened since the cities update

[Fern~Fern*]

I'm surprised that those residents in the stucco homes did not try to stop this development. Since they are literally right behind the soon to be complex and it would block off their sun and views*

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Originally Posted by Ferneynism

I'm surprised that those residents in the stucco homes did not try to stop this development. Since they are literally right behind the soon to be complex and it would block off their sun and views*

nah, the city wanted this. there are no complexes of this kind within the city limits so... as far as i know it was a-okay by the residents.

god knows its going to make traffic on atlantic about a billion times worse when its completed... but at least it will have ample parking?

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hey look at that...
curbed noticed

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2007/1...tion_wa_20.php

[klamedia]

Baby, what is this?

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Originally Posted by klamedia

Baby, what is this?

...?

[Fern~Fern*]

Originally Posted by godblessbotox

...?

WOAH!!!! WAIT A MINUTE HERE!!!!!

Do I see cyber love between two forumers???

Botox(K)... Nice!

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[klamedia]

Oh god "Ferney" you are always ready for a show. I was lost on the project.

[Macross21]

Lots of construction going on in the SGV. Off the top of my head of projects planned or under construction:

Alhambra
U/C - 2 story library
Planned 5 story mix-use off of Main, and 2nd & 4th
Planned 4 story mix-use off of Main, and 3rd
Planned 5 story mix-use off of Main, and 4th & 5th north
Planned 5 story mix-use off of Main, and 4th & 5th south

Arcadia
U/C - 2 story fire department off of Santa Anita
Planned 800,000sq ft shopping center off of Huntington, east of Baldwin

Monterey Park
U/C - 6 story mix-use off of Atlantic, north of Emerson
U/C - 4 story mix-use off of Garfield, south of Garvey
U/C - 1 story shopping center off of Atlantic, south of Garvey
Planned 5 story mix-use off of Atlantic, south of Garvey
Planned 5 story mix-use off of Garfield, south of Garvey
Planned 500,000sq ft shopping center off of 60fwy, between Garfield & Paramont exits

Rosemead
U/C - 8 story bank off of 10fwy, east of Rosemead
Planned - 4 story mix-use off of Del Mar, north of Emerson (picture on site)
Planned - 4 story mix-use off of Del Mar, and Garvey (picture on site)

San Gabriel
U/C - 2 story shopping center off of Valley, east of Del Mar
U/C - 2 story bank off of Valley, next to the Hilton Plaza
U/C - 2 story shopping center off of San Gabriel, south of Mission
U/C - 1 story library off of Del Mar, near Broadway
Planned - 5 story mix-use off of San Gabriel, south of Las Tunas (picture on site)

Temple City
U/C - 5 story mix-use off of Las Tunas, east of Rosemead (picture on site, www.piazzalastunas.com)
U/C - 2 story shopping center of off Baldwin, north of Lower Asuza

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Temple City
U/C - 5 story mix-use off of Las Tunas, east of Rosemead (picture on site, www.piazzalastunas.com)

Anybody knows what happened to this project? They tore down the movie theater but nothing is moving. It's been a hole in the ground for months. I drive by it every a.m.

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website dont work. but is this the lot on the north east corner?

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Originally Posted by godblessbotox

website dont work. but is this the lot on the north east corner?

That's the one, also the website used to work.

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too lazy to type it all out again.

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http://la.curbed.com/archives/2008/0...abriel_rub.php

[Westsidelife]

I remember bowling at San Gabriel Lanes when I was younger.

[saiholmes]

San Gabriel's streets undergoing repairs
By Robert S. Hong, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 02/22/2008 11:33:23 PM PST

San Gabriel's byways are getting a $20 million face-lift, and today residents are invited to get a sneak peek at the new look.

After years of hearing complaints about pothole-marred streets in pockets around the city, City Council members decided in October to take a holistic approach to tackling the problem and directed staff to come up with a plan.

Titled "Great Streets: 2008 and Beyond," the makeover begins this morning with a ceremony along Fairview Avenue at New Circle Drive, one of the more degraded streets in the city, officials said.

"We're showing the community which streets will be addressed as part of the Great Streets program," said city Planning Manager Carol Barrett. "We will also be having a conversation with property owners and residents on larger issues of commercial revitalization."

The projects will span more than seven miles of road, and eight streets have been slated for improvements so far.

Fairview is next on the list, Barrett said.

Improvements will be funded in part by state and federal grants, she said.

Following Fairview will be Live Oak Street, from Junipero Serra Drive to California Street, then Roses Road, from Mission Road to Del Mar Avenue, and in late summer officials hope to begin work along San Gabriel Boulevard.

Work on San Gabriel will go from Mission Road to Las Tunas Drive and will take up the lions' share of the $4 million funding for the project.

the council, this issue has been at the heart of a lot of discussion and community outcry in recent years, and they are eager to get started on repairs.

"It means a lot because this has been a No. 1 priority for us," Mayor Kevin Sawkins said. "Probably the No. 1 issue we hear about is the condition of our streets."

The council will be at today's kickoff party to meet with residents and other concerned citizens to go over the Great Streets program and discuss revitalization of the Fairview shopping area.

Dondi Adkins, president of the San Gabriel Chamber of Commerce, said she expects street improvements to have a positive effect on local business.

"I think the businesses are really looking forward to the streets being repaired," she said. "If it is done in a timely manner it's going to help them tremendously."

[AlexTheMartian]

ok.. so far all that has been posted has been about western San Gabriel Valley.. well in eastern San Gabriel Valley there is some possible new developments, I will list a few.

Dynasty Plaza, Rowland Heights, CA

http://www.dynastyplaza.com/

Site: 18800 East Railroad Street Rowland Heights, CA 91748
Size: 14.86 acres
Developer: Angelus Real Estate Development
Ground-breaking: 2009
Completion: 2010+

A large outdoor shopping an entertainment center which is called a "lifestyle center", will be like San Gabriel Valley's version of Hollywood & Highland Center, Westfield Century City, or The Promenade at Howard Hughes Center, the SGV actually has other centers like this planned, but this is one of the largest.








El Monte Transit Village, El Monte, CA

http://www.elmontetransitvillage.com/

Size: 60 acres
Cost: $1.2 billion
Developer: Titan Group
Ground-breaking: 2008
Completion: 2013-2015

Built around the local bus hub and believed to be the largest transit-oriented development in California, this mixed-use, smart-growth project will contain 1,850 residential units, 560,000 sq. ft. of retail, 500,000 sq. ft. of office space, a 200-room hotel and 11 acres of public parks. The developers estimate that when completed, El Monte Transit Village will bring the city of El Monte $3.5 million in annual revenues.





The Parks, Monrovia, CA (Monrovia Station Square)

http://theparksmonrovia.com/ / http://www.samuelsonandfetter.com/mo...ionsquare.html

Part of Monrovia's Transit-Oriented Development planned for when the Metro Gold Line extends further east (which hopefully will be soon)



The Shops at Santa Anita, Arcadia, CA

http://www.shopsatsantaanita.com/






La Puente, CA

PDF: http://www.louielujan.com/files/la.puente.almanac.pdf

The Village at La Puente


Puente Plaza


Alhambra Civic Center Library, Alhambra, CA (under construction)

http://www.cityofalhambra.org/govern...struction.html




^ Construction on February 12, 2008 ^

^ Construction on February 12, 2008 ^

[VZN]

Wow! A lot of developments are going on in the SGV, and it seems as if a couple of them are based off transit developments.... it's a good thing to see the wonders transit can bring. That Dynasty Plaza development is huge and it looks like it belongs in L.A. Live... this'll definitely turn the tide for a small city like Rowland Heights.

[AlexTheMartian]

Originally Posted by VZN

Wow! A lot of developments are going on in the SGV, and it seems as if a couple of them are based off transit developments.... it's a good thing to see the wonders transit can bring. That Dynasty Plaza development is huge and it looks like it belongs in L.A. Live... this'll definitely turn the tide for a small city like Rowland Heights.

Rowland Heights is an unincorporated community, but I think this Dynasty Plaza is right next to the border of City of Industry, and that city has the headquarters of companies like Hot Topic, Newegg.com, etc, so there is plenty of possible business support in the area.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1204...googlenews_wsj

The Huntington's Garden Of Flowing Fragrance
By ARNIE COOPER, The Wall Street Journal
February 27, 2008; Page D10


San Marino, Calif.

When Shakespeare's Juliet made her "rose by any other name" pronouncement she clearly wasn't thinking about Chinese culture. In the Far East, using a particular appellation is not merely incidental -- it's essential.

Yang Ye served on the advisory board charged with naming the Huntington's recently opened garden. He says "a name may not be an important thing in the West. But Confucius once said that the naming is of paramount importance. It even relates to the harmony of all under heaven." No wonder it took a year to come up with Liu Fang Yuan, or The Garden of Flowing Fragrance.

Mr. Ye, an associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside, says the tradition of private gardens began in the Age of Division during the third to the sixth centuries. Back then the government disintegrated and individuals became wealthy enough to have their own gardens. Nowhere exemplifies this better than Suzhou, China's garden capital for over 500 years. Once home to affluent salt and silk merchants, Suzhou, with its trademark arched roofs and compact, walled-in gardens, has been a Unesco World Heritage site since 1997.

Moreover, Suzhou's classical elegance translates seamlessly to the 3.5 acre site fringed by oaks and towering pines here in San Marino. Despite the cultural and geographic distance, one need only stand on "The Terrace That Invites the Mountain" and gaze across the pond to the elegantly curvaceous "Three Friends Pavilion" to imagine oneself somewhere in 16th- or 17th-century China.

Of course, it doesn't hurt that the Huntington contracted with the China Suzhou Garden Development Co. to send over 11 stone artisans and 50 craftsmen to assemble the eight pavilions and five bridges. Also exported: over 800 tons of limestone rocks from the Lake Tai region.

June Li, an art historian who is also the garden's curator, says these "scholar stones" have been sought after since the 10th century, when emperors would go down to the lake and get them for their imperial gardens. "They've become so famous everyone wants them in their garden," Ms. Li says of the sculptural, multihued rocks.

Few, though, have the resources of the Huntington, which was founded by Henry Edwards Huntington, the railroad and real-estate magnate, in 1919. It includes four art galleries and a library surrounded by 120 acres of gardens containing more than 14,000 plants. Thanks to a very successful fund-raising effort the Chinese Garden had more than $18 million to work with, assuring a creation that is authentic in both its style and the approach to its creation. For beyond the home-grown Chinese materials and artisans, Mr. Ye along with Richard Strassberg, a professor of Chinese at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the poet-filmmaker Wan-go H.C. Weng worked countless hours to find a name that was "artistic," "graceful," "elegant" and "highbrow."

"We tried very hard," Mr. Ye says, "to give this garden a name with some literary connections, so as to match the prestige of the Huntington's library and gardens." (In addition to the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," the private collection boasts a Gutenberg Bible and paintings such as Gainsborough's "Blue Boy.") The result, "Liu Fang," in addition to meaning "flowing fragrance" also celebrates the Ming Dynasty painter Li Liufang, who is best known for his soulful landscapes.

And what about the plants? Halfway through a gardening article, you'd think the flora would have received more than a casual mention. But this is a Chinese garden, which offers equal billing to the many structural elements. Not that those more interested in botany will be disappointed. Jim Folsom, who directs the Huntington's Botanical Gardens, originally proposed the Chinese garden (in the early '90s) because the museum already had so many native Chinese plants. He also believed the site would be perfect for Chinese pistaches, gingkos and Chinese (Ms. Li insists they're not "Japanese") maples -- all of which will offer a heavy dose of vibrant color come fall.

As for the fragrance, Ms. Li says there will be more than enough wafting around thanks to the jasmine, peach, plum and sweet olive blossoms that are in various stages of bloom. But like so many things in this garden, one mustn't let reality, however redolent, undercut a more potent aspect of this ancient art: the symbolism that permeates virtually every piece of wood, tile and stone that constitutes this artfully constructed garden.

Lisa Blackburn, communications coordinator at the Huntington, likens a visit to Liu Fang Yuan to entering a scroll painting. "As you wander through a garden like this, it's kind of like you're unrolling this painting and traveling into all these different scenes as you go, not just looking at one static image and saying 'oh that's pretty.' "

Enhancing the experience: calligraphy and poetry, which along with painting make up what Chinese scholars call sanjue, or "The Three Perfections." Mr. Ye, whose charcoal embossed characters adorn the teahouse, says calligraphy in gardens helps people understand "the real nature." "After all, the garden is something man-made. Inscription done in calligraphy actually tells people what nature is like."

The curving brush strokes also provide the link to literature. Mr. Ye says the name of the teahouse, The Freshwater Pavilion, comes from the 12th-century poet Su Bong Po's poem about using "living" or fresh water to make tea.

The stories seem endless. The Love for the Lotus Pavilion was named after an essay written by Zhou Zunyi in the 11th century during the Song Dynasty. Ms. Li says that during this time, there was a great attraction to luxurious things and flowers. "Peonies were a craze especially among the nobility and aristocrats. That's why they're still called 'the flower of prosperity.' As for Zunyi, he compared the lotus to the peony and the chrysanthemum, which were also greatly loved by a lot of people. But to him, the lotus was the best because it represents nobility; it rises out of the mud and blossoms into this beautiful flower."

Of course, the casual (especially non-Chinese-speaking) visitor will probably miss all this. Not wanting to clutter the garden with "didactics," Ms. Li says just a couple of signs will give brief accounts of these stories. A book, "Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Garden," will be published in October.

All the easier for "indulging in the Tao," as Mr. Ye likes to put it. (The Tao can be translated as "the way it simply is.") And what better spot to do that than at the Pavilion for Washing Away Thoughts? Located along the stream that connects to the Japanese garden, and just a few steps from a waterfall, the tiny wooden structure is the most peaceful section of the garden.

Ms. Li says the pavilion's name was inspired by a poem by Liu Zongyuan that was written for a government official in the early ninth century. "The sentiments expressed are those of gratitude for the emperor's attention and heartfelt appreciation for the fragrance and fresh taste of new tea. Like tasting wine, it is helpful in 'washing away thoughts.' "

Indeed, your chattering mind tends to slow down -- in a big way -- when you sit under the wood-thatched roof, inches away from the rushing water with camellia blossoms all around.