Oscar's Hollywood

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Special Report by Marty Shelton Since the opening of the METRO Redline subway in 2000 running from Downtown Los Angeles to North Hollywood, Hollywood has seen a revitalization that continues today. In recent years, the area has become the live/work ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

Let's hear it for Hudson Pacific Properties spectacular new Sunset-Bronson Studios building on Sunset Blvd. If you are not aware, Netflix now occupies not only the entire 14 story building that is called "ICON" but the historic former Warner Bros. ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

Two new hotels opened in Hollywood last month - the Kimpton Everly with 216 rooms and the Hampton Inn Hollywood with 112 rooms. With the Dream Hotel that opened in July, more than 500 rooms have been added to the Hollywood market this year. This is a ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

The results are in and more than conclusive. Measure S, which, by all accounts was a misguided moratorium on new and affordable housing that Los Angeles desperately needs, was defeated. I have always tried to see the positive aspects of things like ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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Paramount Pictures, an integral part of Hollywood for more than 100 years, is making a $700-million investment that will allow the studio to advance its facilities with the newest technology, create entertainment jobs in Hollywood and preserve the ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

Print Magazines. Are people still reading print magazines? A fact that is not bandied about in the exhilaration of the Internet is that magazine readership has actually risen during the past five years and over the past 15 years, almost corresponding ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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What is the #1 Tourist Spot in the United States? Why the Hollywood Walk of Fame of course! According to Business Insider, the Walk of Fame is the most visited landmark ahead of such other icons as Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial and The Statue ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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The Los Angeles City Council recently voted unanimously to finally move forward with construction of a Target store on Sunset Blvd. and Western Ave., a project which was stalled for 2 years due to lawsuits. The development has broad neighborhood ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, and Hudson Pacific Properties have announced an agreement in which Netflix will lease a significant portion of the new ICON office tower at Sunset Bronson Studios. The growing Southern California ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

Hollywood Leads the Way. Watching Kilroy Realty's Columbia Square and Hudson Pacific's Hollywood Icon take shape on Sunset Blvd. is easy because of their highly visible locations. Equally impressive, however, is J.H. Snyder's $138 million, 244,000 ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

As the Publisher of a magazine devoted to promoting the unique culture and lore of Hollywood, it's a pleasure to see the Palladium Residences project coming along. Not only will it provide badly needed new housing, but it will restore and celebrate ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

Get A Job! That's what the Silhouettes wailed on their 1957 R & B #1 record. Jobs, especially the lack of them, are a big time conversation in 2015. Yet, in Los Angeles County, Tourism and Hospitality is the fastest growing industry adding more ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

Posted By Oscar Arslanian

The recent news that media titan Viacom is moving its cable networks to Hollywood is truly a big time step forward in the on-going renaissance taking place in our town. The company is taking 180,000 square feet of space and moving their cable ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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If you want to be successful at anything, identify what's missing and then provide it! Essentially, that's why you have this magazine in your hands. Thirty years ago, I put together a small group of Hollywood stalwarts who thought, as I did, that the ...

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Oscar's Hollywood

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Oscar's Hollywood June's Hollywood Economic Development Summit, An Urban Experience, presented in June by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, included an array of projects that have already broken ground or are in the pipeline. It amounts to $4.5 ...

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