In 1914, when Echo Park was known as Edendale and Red Cars on the Pacific Electric Railway were the mode du jour, residents used public stairways (and their glutes) to access the 1-bedroom cottage cabins on Loma Vista Place. Edendale movie studios, for silent film-making, proliferated on the four-block stretch of Allesandro, between Berkeley and [...]
- Posted on: 05/09/2011
- Author: jovelle
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- Category: Echo Park Homes For Sale, Homes Sold
- Tags: Down-payment Assistance, First-Time Home Buyer
Echo Park Condo, With Down-Payment Assistance, Still Available
Only 1 unit remains in an Echo Park condo complex of 4, completely rehabbed by non-profit organization Enterprise Home Ownership Partners (EHOP), with down-payment assistance from the City of L.A. and the Los Angeles Housing Department up to $90,000 for eligible Buyers. Built in 1915, the quadruplex underwent an extensive condo conversion, replete with lead-abatement [...]
Opening Ceremony for Rockwood-Colton, Echo Park’s New Eco Green Space
A small crowd of neighbors, civic leaders, park engineers, and children gathered this past Saturday to welcome Echo Park’s latest greenery in the urban landscape: Rockwood-Colton Park, which Eric Garcetti appropriately called a “green necklace in the middle of Los Angeles” during the noon ribbon-cutting ceremony. With Vista Hermosa Park, the Echo Park Pool, and [...]
Koning Eizenberg Architecture’s New Adaptive Reuse in Echo Park
Children’s Institute Inc.’s New Echo Park Campus
