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Crenshaw Crossing: A Landmark Project Built For The Community
Crenshaw Crossing looks to be more than just another high-rise apartment building that is placed along a Los Angeles Metro stop. This project aims to be a community hub where locals can shop, eat outdoors, and attend community gatherings. …
Purchasing Power: Leimert Park Merchants Come Together To Buy Their Building
With Metro’s K-line expansion accelerating real estate speculation along the Crenshaw corridor, business merchants in Leimert Park are using group economics as a frontline defense against displacement. In September, four retail tenants – Akil West (Sole Folks), Anthony Jolly (Hot…
Sowing Prosperity: Local Pop-Up Market Continues To Give Other Black-Owned Businesses A Place To Grow
When Prosperity Market held a month-long scavenger hunt to celebrate Black Business Month, the Los Angeles-based organization was providing far more than just a little ‘fun-in-the-sun’. For founders Carmen Dianne and Kara Still the goal was, as it always is, to raise awareness around Black-owned…
Plans Submitted To Replace Former Pre-School With 32 Apartment Units At Crenshaw and 48th Street
Taylor Made Homes, a Santa Monica developer, submitted plans for the six-story building at 4827 South Crenshaw Boulevard. The new development would replace the former Ivie League pre-school building with a 32-unit apartment complex. Once completed, the new development will…
Black Real Estate Dialogue: How One Podcast Is Helping To Change The Way We Think About Investing
From Instagram and Tik Tok to mainstream media outlets, the financial literacy movement has become a real thing over the last several years. With people forced into stillness by the pandemic, many took advantage of that downtime to educate themselves…