By Enyaj Pitchford At the 2020 Mural Reveal It was an honor to spend time talking to Becky Dennison , who has worked at VCH, the Venice Community Housing Corporation for the past 5 ½ years. She is sharp with a quick intelligence and is fully committed to her cause, her job. She plays a...
a Letter from Margaret Molloy Mark Sokol, CEO of the Venice Beach Business Improvement District, is the owner of the Hotel Erwin at 1697 Pacific Avenue; Larry’s at 24 Windward Avenue; and several commercial stores to the east between Larry’s and the Townhouse at 52-58 Windward Avenue including vintage clothing store “Only in Venice” and...
The Venice Place project, which would cover almost an entire block with a 78-room & 4-apartment hotel, two restaurants, a liquor store, and a spa, is headed back to the West Area Planning Commission again, if only for a rubber stamp. During eight years of fighting over several versions of this project, support has come...
This month’s update covers from October 7th to November 5th. To start, our efforts to ensure youth and elder safety and regulating gentrification dynamics at our community park is working.
A recent conversation with Venice Elder Carol Powell about the significance of the First Baptist Church of Venice, an historical African-American church in the heart of Venice.
