by Mark McDermott A community survey has found support for a new, bigger, and better version of the aging Begg Pool. The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday…
by Mark McDermott The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night, in a unanimous vote, ordered the removal of the temporary outdoor dining decks that were…
Manhattan Beach City Council debates Bruce’s Beach plaque language
SHARE Bruce s Lodge, circa 1916. The pier in the distance is what remained of Peck’s Pier. Peck s Pavilion is on the beach to the west of The Strand, and The Bruces’ resort was on the east of The Strand. The Pacific Electric Railway (Red Car) ran between the two, on what is the bike path today. Photo from Manhattan Beach Historical Society via the History Advisory Board report
by Mark McDermott
The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night sent proposed new language for plaques at Bruce’s Beach back to the History Advisory Committee, a group of residents tasked with providing a more accurate telling of what occurred when racially-motivated city leaders in the 1920s utilized the power of eminent domain to condemn the property.
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by Mark McDermott
The Manhattan Beach City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved a proposed four-story, 161-room, 81,771 square foot hotel and an accompanying 14,500 square foot office and retail building on the former El Torito site along Sepulveda Boulevard.
The hotel takes advantage of “Sepulveda overlay” zoning, enacted in 2019, that allows a height of 40 feet and will thus become the tallest building in the city’s Sepulveda corridor. The size and height of the project attracted overwhelming neighborhood opposition from a group calling itself “MB Poets,” named for the section of town just east of the project site which has poet street names, such as Tennyson and Keats. Both MB Poets and the employee union representing another hotel in town, Westdrift, appealed the Planning Commission’s previous approval of the hotel, and filed lawsuits accusing the developer of defying California environmental law.