» Three people were critically injured in an explosion on a film set in Santa Clarita. The explosion sparked a grass fire, but the fire was contained. [ABC Los Angeles]
» Trader Joe’s will voluntarily extend a $4 per hour “Thank You Pay” raise to frontline workers. The move comes as other grocery chains have bristled at local government attempts to press them to compensate store staff for the high risk associated with working amid the pandemic. Trader Joe’s has also stated it will pay workers for time taken off to get vaccinated. [CBS Los Angeles]
» Community Land Trusts are becoming a popular instrument to help residents keep their homes and fight displacement. The trusts operate as non-profits that step in to buy buildings before developers can get their hands on them and increase costs. Now, L.A. County is expanding a pilot program in publicly-funded CLTs. [LAist]
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Top left: Lily Pond 1915; Bottom left: City Hall 1925; Top right: Greystone Mansion 1928; Bottom right: Rodeo Dr. 1925 (City of Beverly Hills)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA One hundred seven years ago today, the citizens of one of the nation s first planned communities incorporated their city. What began as a lima bean field and later an oil well-drilling site had been transformed into a town full of parks and wide curving streets, designed with affordability and tranquility in mind, named Beverly Hills after bucolic Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
A few years later, the arrival of the world s first film stars turned Beverly Hills into an international symbol of luxury and glamor, a reputation it maintains to this day.