I doubt the marketing team decided on selling the HUXLEY as:
“Adding Some Glam to Gritty La Brea Avenue”
Accurate …. But no so catchy for what the pictures look like to me to wit: the word “GLAM” doesn’t fit with any of the apartment interior pictures …. in my personal opinion.
Rudolf Martin
10 years ago
Anthony, if you want to live in an “international city” with “proper public transpo”, you are the one in the wrong place. I love WeHo but it’s certainly not that. your best case scenario for “a metro station or two” in WeHo is 20 years from now. So I suggest you take your own advice and go move somewhere else.
Anthony
10 years ago
so excited for all these new developments bringing this whole area up to the standards of an international city. The only thing missing now is proper public transpo. A metro station or two would be just what the Dr ordered. So to those complaining about traffic and this are being clogged due to these new developments, go move somewhere else, if you want peaceful, go to Pasadena!
Kevin
10 years ago
The complex at Fountain and La Brea known as “The Huxley” refers to Aldous Huxley, not Thomas. It seems that the author conflated Dylan Thomas and Aldous Huxley, which is surprising from a writer!
Good catch! But it’s an error perhaps not so surprising from someone who writes six to nine stories a day 😉
Wehoan Fed Up with the NIMBYs
10 years ago
I’m not shilling for anyone. There is no way on earth we can put walls up around West Hollywood and prevent people from moving in. So we need to build more housing so they have a place to live. I’m sorry this town is full of selfish rich people who want to keep their single-family homes and low-density neighborhoods to themselves. But you chose to live in the middle of a major metropolis. You want single family homes and quiet? Move to the burbs.
Steve
10 years ago
SnarkyGal: Where were you when these projects were being proposed, discussed and voted on? Apparently not at the PAC meetings, Planning Commission meetings or City Council meetings, because at THOSE meetings, support was overwhelming for nearly all the approved projects. TimF: Avon has every right to exist at that location if they want….but it doesn’t mean I want them to. It’s a high profile corner that should be better utilized with residents and neighborhood serving businesses, not a generic truck rental facility….and don’t get me started about Cemex. Mike: I can only surmise that your definition of what a good… Read more »
Mike Dolan
10 years ago
The Huxley is a beautiful, well-constructed, stunning addition to La Brea. Along with the Courtyard, The Dylan, The Gateway and the soon to begin project at Movietown Plaza; I too have dreamt of the eastside evolving into this dynamic and thriving part of West Hollywood. Now if we can only get the council to take action on the approved Phase 1 of Plummer Park to meet the demands of and compliment the community that has been so effectively designed, and implemented. With the new contemporary preschool and the already existing contemporary community center it makes sense to remodel Fiesta Hall’s… Read more »
Patrick
10 years ago
Sensible development is one thing – a necessary fact of life. But what we have in West Hollywood is runaway development with a complete lack of foresight. I feel sorry for anyone living in the vicinity of these projects – oh, wait, that’s me! Sigh
Mike
10 years ago
@ wehoan fed up: I guess you are just shilling for the developers? Why else would you start calling people who only want logical and carefully planned developments in their community? I have worked and lived here for over 35 years so why should I adjust my life for a bunch of new-comers?
Mike
10 years ago
Steve, I’m not joking. Your memories are quite different from mine. I lived at Willoughby & Formosa from 79 thru 81. Melrose & Western 81 to 83, Beachwood Canyon 83 to 85, West Hollywood 85 to 87, Near Sunset & La Brea from 87 thru 92. I biked to work every day back then so I got to know the neighborhoods all the way to Bronson & SMB. Back then you didn’t have the homeless issue that exists across from La Brea Gateway in the commercial area east of La Brea to Highland. I gotta say that the neighborhood I… Read more »
TimF
10 years ago
Steve: “And PLEASE tell me where I can buy a house for $3,500.” $3500 a month would be the payment on an $800k 30 year loan at 3.5%. Lots of condos, townhouses and even a few single unit houses for that price. And I agree with Snarkygal. The east side of WeHo and the neighboring parts of Hollywood were doing just fine, with single unit houses and reasonably sized apartments. It was not decaying. I understand things will always get denser, but we need the infrastructure first. The roads as they are now can’t handle the extra volume. Santa Monica… Read more »
Rudolf Martin
10 years ago
Good luck to The Huxley finding enough “tech savvy people” who are willing to seriously overpay to “communicate and collaborate” in a building that looks cheap and generic at best on a seriously gridlocked corner. Those rents will come down. I hope their other building The Dylan won’t be quite as bland, I’m just glad that Carls Jr is gone so it’ll be an improvement either way. I think it’s safe to say both authors are violently spinning in their graves, wishing they could sue. I do like The Guggenheim… I mean The Courtyard and I find the new medians… Read more »
I doubt the marketing team decided on selling the HUXLEY as:
“Adding Some Glam to Gritty La Brea Avenue”
Accurate …. But no so catchy for what the pictures look like to me to wit: the word “GLAM” doesn’t fit with any of the apartment interior pictures …. in my personal opinion.
Anthony, if you want to live in an “international city” with “proper public transpo”, you are the one in the wrong place. I love WeHo but it’s certainly not that. your best case scenario for “a metro station or two” in WeHo is 20 years from now. So I suggest you take your own advice and go move somewhere else.
so excited for all these new developments bringing this whole area up to the standards of an international city. The only thing missing now is proper public transpo. A metro station or two would be just what the Dr ordered. So to those complaining about traffic and this are being clogged due to these new developments, go move somewhere else, if you want peaceful, go to Pasadena!
The complex at Fountain and La Brea known as “The Huxley” refers to Aldous Huxley, not Thomas. It seems that the author conflated Dylan Thomas and Aldous Huxley, which is surprising from a writer!
Good catch! But it’s an error perhaps not so surprising from someone who writes six to nine stories a day 😉
I’m not shilling for anyone. There is no way on earth we can put walls up around West Hollywood and prevent people from moving in. So we need to build more housing so they have a place to live. I’m sorry this town is full of selfish rich people who want to keep their single-family homes and low-density neighborhoods to themselves. But you chose to live in the middle of a major metropolis. You want single family homes and quiet? Move to the burbs.
SnarkyGal: Where were you when these projects were being proposed, discussed and voted on? Apparently not at the PAC meetings, Planning Commission meetings or City Council meetings, because at THOSE meetings, support was overwhelming for nearly all the approved projects. TimF: Avon has every right to exist at that location if they want….but it doesn’t mean I want them to. It’s a high profile corner that should be better utilized with residents and neighborhood serving businesses, not a generic truck rental facility….and don’t get me started about Cemex. Mike: I can only surmise that your definition of what a good… Read more »
The Huxley is a beautiful, well-constructed, stunning addition to La Brea. Along with the Courtyard, The Dylan, The Gateway and the soon to begin project at Movietown Plaza; I too have dreamt of the eastside evolving into this dynamic and thriving part of West Hollywood. Now if we can only get the council to take action on the approved Phase 1 of Plummer Park to meet the demands of and compliment the community that has been so effectively designed, and implemented. With the new contemporary preschool and the already existing contemporary community center it makes sense to remodel Fiesta Hall’s… Read more »
Sensible development is one thing – a necessary fact of life. But what we have in West Hollywood is runaway development with a complete lack of foresight. I feel sorry for anyone living in the vicinity of these projects – oh, wait, that’s me! Sigh
@ wehoan fed up: I guess you are just shilling for the developers? Why else would you start calling people who only want logical and carefully planned developments in their community? I have worked and lived here for over 35 years so why should I adjust my life for a bunch of new-comers?
Steve, I’m not joking. Your memories are quite different from mine. I lived at Willoughby & Formosa from 79 thru 81. Melrose & Western 81 to 83, Beachwood Canyon 83 to 85, West Hollywood 85 to 87, Near Sunset & La Brea from 87 thru 92. I biked to work every day back then so I got to know the neighborhoods all the way to Bronson & SMB. Back then you didn’t have the homeless issue that exists across from La Brea Gateway in the commercial area east of La Brea to Highland. I gotta say that the neighborhood I… Read more »
Steve: “And PLEASE tell me where I can buy a house for $3,500.” $3500 a month would be the payment on an $800k 30 year loan at 3.5%. Lots of condos, townhouses and even a few single unit houses for that price. And I agree with Snarkygal. The east side of WeHo and the neighboring parts of Hollywood were doing just fine, with single unit houses and reasonably sized apartments. It was not decaying. I understand things will always get denser, but we need the infrastructure first. The roads as they are now can’t handle the extra volume. Santa Monica… Read more »
Good luck to The Huxley finding enough “tech savvy people” who are willing to seriously overpay to “communicate and collaborate” in a building that looks cheap and generic at best on a seriously gridlocked corner. Those rents will come down. I hope their other building The Dylan won’t be quite as bland, I’m just glad that Carls Jr is gone so it’ll be an improvement either way. I think it’s safe to say both authors are violently spinning in their graves, wishing they could sue. I do like The Guggenheim… I mean The Courtyard and I find the new medians… Read more »