Downtown Pasadena Neighborhood Association

10/17/2023

Rick Cole & Chuck Marohn discuss reducing crashes, making streets safer

Join us on October 18, 2023, at 7:00 PM for an in-person event focused on building better communities and safer streets.

07/08/2023

Just after 1:00 am on July 8, 2023, a two-alarm fire ripped through the University Club of Pasadena, By News Desk The University Club, 175 N. Oakland, suffer

08/09/2022

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07/01/2022

Last day of operation for the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena --
As a Laemmle house, that is. For the last several days, they've been closing screens one by one. The June 29 schedule is one show on one screen and that's the end. Landmark has a lease and will reopen after a renovation. The date and scope of their initial work haven't been determined. Our page on the PH7: https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2019/12/laemmle-playhouse-7.html

Photo: Bill Counter - June 8. Laemmle has been saying "Thanks for 23 Years, Pasadena" in their ads. But the circuit's operations in Pasadena go way back before they built the Playhouse in 1999. They opened the Esquire Theatre, farther east on Colorado Blvd., in 1964. Our page: https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2019/12/esquire-theatre.html

And they picked up the Colorado Theatre in 1986. Our page: https://losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2019/12/colorado-theatre.html

05/10/2022

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Guest Author Caltrans To Relinquish 710 Stub to Pasadena 65SHARESShare 710 Gap in Pasadena (Photo – Chevy111) The Pasadena City Council approved a contract with Caltrans, reclaiming a portion of the land originally slated for the now-cancelled North 710 Freeway project. By...

05/25/2021

Downtown Pasadena Park Construction Begins August ‘21
By Deborah Dentler

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Guest Author Downtown Pasadena Park Construction Begins August ‘21 43SHARESShare Renderings of proposed park (Photos – City of Pasadena You could almost hear a collective exhalation of breath over Zoom on the evening of May 24th, when long-time advocates for parks and o...

11/17/2020

Tuesday 11/17 at 6pm the Pasadena Environmental Advisory Commission will review the City's progress on implementing its adopted Climate Action Plan. 🌎

✅Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81210716182

✅Agenda: www.cityofpasadena.net/commissions/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2020-11-17-Environmental-Advisory-Commission-Special-Meeting-Agenda.pdf

✅Meeting files: www.cityofpasadena.net/commissions/environmental-advisory-commission/

10/22/2020

Pasadena: Proposed Affordable Housing at Historic Civic Center

09/25/2020

You can now view Civic Center presentations from potential developers of the Julia Morgan designed YWCA building and former Water and Power site here:

www.cityofpasadena.net/economicdevelopment/civic-center-proposals/

09/23/2020

This afternoon the City of Pasadena hosted a virtual round of presentations for (re)development of the long-vacant YWCA building and empty Water/Power lot across the street across the street from Pasadena City Hall. Attached are some screenshots of the presentations. We'll be sure to post a link to the full video as soon as it become available.

BACKGROUND (via City):
In June, 2019, the City issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of the former YWCA building, located at 78 North Marengo Avenue. As the City was proceeding with the RFP, a state law related to affordable housing changed in January 2020, and compelled Pasadena to pause the RFP process. Despite Pasadena’s pursuit of affordable housing as part of the Civic Center development, the new State law required the City to issue a Notice of Availability (NOA) to a broader set of affordable housing developers.

As a result of the City’s 2019 RFP process and the 2020 supplemental NOA process to comply with updated State regulations, Pasadena currently has three affordable housing proposals for the Ramona Street lot, and two development proposals for the renovation of the YWCA building block.

The Affordable housing developers include: 1) Abode Communities, proposing 103 dwelling units for families in a 5-level building which may include subterranean parking; 2) National Community Renaissance of California, proposing either a 94-unit family project or a 112-unit senior housing project in a 5-level building, with 94 on-site parking spaces for the family project and 50 on-site parking spaces for the senior project; and 3) BRIDGE Housing proposing to construct a 72-unit affordable housing project for seniors with approximately 39 spaces on site in a 4-level building on the Ramona
Street lot.

The two remaining developers which are seeking to renovate the YWCA building and make improvements to the block are: 1) HRI Properties, LLC of New Orleans, LA, whose plans are to restore the former YWCA building into a 179-room historic hotel; and 2) Edgewood Realty Partners, LLC of South Pasadena, CA, whose plans are to restore the YWCA building into a 164-room hotel operated by Palisociety.

09/16/2020

Yippee! Playhouse Park is moving forward! Here's the presentation of the Final Design that was presented in last month's digital Open House. Can't wait!!

This is "Pasadena Playhouse Presentation" by City of Pasadena, CA on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.