Buyer Plans Major Renovations At Sherman Oaks Retail Center.Local developers have acquired La Reina La Reina (Spanish: "The queen") is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region. Place in Sherman Oaks with plans to pump about $1.5 million to $2 million into a major renovation of the shopping plaza shopping plaza Noun a shopping centre, usually a small group of stores built as a strip . Golden West Properties and Jade Enterprises in L.A. acquired the 60,000-square-foot center from Japanese investor, Robert Dollar Robert Dollar (1844-1932) Called the “Grand Old Man” of the Pacific, Captain Robert Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland. He worked as a boy in the logging in the forests of Canada. Building, which had owned it for about 15 years. The purchase price was not disclosed. "That portion of Ventura Boulevard Ventura Boulevard is one of the primary east-west thouroughfares in the San Fernando Valley; as it was originally a part of the El Camino Real (the trail between Spanish missions), Ventura Boulevard is the oldest route in the San Fernando Valley. It was also U.S. is the busiest portion of Ventura Boulevard," said Tom Pashaie, a partner with Golden West Properties, which has developed about a half dozen centers in the central San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , including the popular Encino Place. 'That was attractive because of the constant foot traffic, as well as auto traffic." The stretch of Ventura Boulevard, roughly bounded by Van Nuys Boulevard and Kester Street, sits at the heart of Sherman Oaks, but it languished through most of the 1990s, attracting a hodgepodge of tenants. While national retail tenants moved into Studio City to the east, they bypassed the Sherman Oaks area. But the La Reina facelift, coupled with the renovation under way at the Sherman Oaks Galleria Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. Locals colloquially refer to the mall simply as "the Galleria. , could substantially change the complexion of the area. Both centers are due to be completed in the fall of 2001. "From a positioning standpoint, La Reina is probably ground zero," said Greg Whitney, senior associate with Grubb & Ellis Co. "There's some upside and potential to do better things." Built about 50 years ago, the center has as its focal point focal point n. See focus. the Art Deco-style La Reina Theater, from which the center draws its name. But since then, the center was expanded piecemeal, and the developers now hope to carry the Art Deco theme throughout the project. A stairway that cuts the center in two will be replaced with a large fountain, and the outdoor seating in front of the center will be expanded and made more uniform with landscaping. Pashaie likened the design to the look of the outdoor seating section at Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood. The developers also plan to revamp the second floor of the center to make the shops more visible from the street, "so the building will have more presence and mass," Pashale said. "The front would be more like terraces in France or England, and there would be seating and benches and flowers on the second floor." Other touches will include columns, glass banisters and a large clock. |
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