Santa Monica Considers the Impacts of Downtown Construction

Santa Monica is under attack — by cranes! Santa Monica has big plans for a facelift before the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, but the city’s businesses, residents, and visitors will have to endure an even bigger headache over the next five years as such projects break ground and reach fruition.Continue reading “Santa Monica Considers the Impacts of Downtown Construction”

Tender Greens Coming to Santa Monica

Back in October of 2010 in the location of the former Lighthouse restaurant at 2nd and Arizona, (201 Arizona), a notice was posted in the window announcing the imminent arrival of a new Tender Greens. I remember seeing over the summer that the spot was empty. Along with Anisette Brasserie, Broadway Deli, and Fat Burger,Continue reading “Tender Greens Coming to Santa Monica”

Home Junction

If you’ve used Google Maps in a major metropolitain area, you may have noticed one or two “neighborhood labels” that seemed bizarre and new to you even though you know the area quite well. Here is a link to Home Junction on Google Maps. As best as I can determine, some of these names goContinue reading “Home Junction”

Disney Interactive Liberates 79 Parking Spaces for Glorious Struggle of Profitability

This just in – this morning Disney Interactive has let go of eighty employees, all but one of whom drove to work. Disney Online (aka DOL) seems to have made the decision to lower its overhead before it moves to its new offices in Glendale.