Old Spaghetti Factory Hastily Demolished to Make Way for Controversial High-rise

ndongo M

Hollywood is a house all name worldwide and I think it deserves better and it's about time to make hollywood looks like hollywood. for too longer visitors that I know has been saying the first time they arrive in hollywood and I said the same thing too the first time I came to LA is that hollywood? it s about time people who come to hollywood now say I am really in hollywood. those excuses about blocking the hollywood sign,traffic and so so are now old and an't working no more. you have seen enough of that sign let the visitors complain not you. I am sure they will find away to see it tall buildings or no tall buildings. there is always a solution for everything. if you loose both of your hands you will find a way to eat .don't you have enough of people from newyork making fun of hollywood? I am sure you have been in newyork time square . it is a lot busier than hollywood and traffic is working fine to me. now if you cannot stand the heat get out of the kitchen brother. there is plainty of space in LA for you.

James_McCuen

The business that operated in the building was not the issue, the historical resource, the building and its history was part of the land use entitlement which required saving just a portion (the facade) of the building.

The plan was to build the mixed-use new building and incorporate the former Peerless Motor car showroom into the new development - Part of Eric Garcetti's "vision" of Hollywood.

For the very minor requirement, the Developer got gifts of taxpayer funds, $17 million, which was totally unnecessary.

Since they could not even follow those requirements, they do not deserve taxpayers funds nor excessive entitlements. Those should be stripped away.

L.A. Resident

Because nothing of the structure was saved as per the land use entitlement, the 17 million dollars of tax breaks should be rescinded. Fair is fair.

Crxeaturv8

i was part of that demo from 7 am to 10 pm tuesday night

Guest

The point of this story is "The demolition is Illegal..because the city's approval of Sunset

Gordon was CONTINGENT on the preservation of the historic structure....permits for

demolition were ILLEGALLY backdated.."

Who cares whether you or anyone thought the building was worthless or ugly..

This story is about Betrayal, Corruption, and Deception..

Everyone who LIVES here knows the story about this ..

Those in the community who actually CARE about it, worked hard and long, to preserve parts of that building..

They were lied to and deceived by the city with the enabler, Garcetti, along for the ride.

Garcetti wouldn't know the truth if it hit him over the head.

The deal was done..they were told parts of it would be preserved..

Then, like Thieves In The Night..they demo it..

Garcetti is a lieing sleeze wad..

Guess these developers are funding his campaign too...He can't say NO to any of them..

THAT is what this is about..Lieing Politicians, funded by big developers.. and BEHOLDIN to them.

And HE and his OFFICE never know anything..

He LIES, then DENIES..having any knowledge of anything.. Does he go through life

sleepwalking?

NO.....He is a COWARD.

He and CIM Group should rot in hell.

He calls this Folly of his 'The NEW Golden Age of Hollywood".

When he is done with it there will be nothing left of the REAL, Historic, 'Golden Age of Hollywood'. No buildings, no history...NOTHING!

If he becomes Mayor he will succeed at tearing down everything, so his developer buddies can build on the ASHES that once were Hollywood.

Rick Abrams

At least with Garcetti, you know what you get -- lies, deceit, corruption, incompetence

If it were honest, the work would not start at 5:00pm and take place at night --

"A man who lies to himself, lies to everyone." A. Manny Moose

Star Jonestown

While there have been many shady developer ploys in recent years in Hollywood, knocking down the Spaghetti Factory ain't one of them.

For years that has been a grim reminder of the bad old days in Hollywood... it was a graffiti-scarred wasteland.

Not every move that big business makes is evil. Letting that abandoned sh*thole remain as it was would've been the real disaster.

Rick Abrams

Due it was a sh*thole because the developer made it a sh*thole

Towns with respect for their history rehab such places. That should be especially true for Hollywood -- perhaps the world's most famous city which thrives on having historic sites -- One of the great things about our historic sites is an anomaly -- they are new enough (from 1910 to 1940's) that tourists can personally relate to them, but old enough to be intriguing.

Leave it to The Garcettoid and soon everything will be destroyed

Star Jonestown

You're wrong. That place was sh*thole WHEN IT WAS OPEN. For 40 years it was a crappy chain restaurant next to the freeway.

This is all just complaining for the sake of complaining. There are literally hundreds of meaningful sites around town that ARE preserved. But as a local, it isn't 'R.I.P. Spaghetti Factory', it is, 'THANK GOD SOMEBODY razed that useless shell'.

No restaurant was going to be successful there. Now people will actually live there (not me, i'm done living next to the fckn freeway).