“We wanted a place to watch our kids play and grow up,” she tells Architectural Digest When Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren bought a new house in the Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood, which bears that famed 90210 zip code, she thought that all she’d need to do was paint. As is often the case, she told Architectural Digest, that renovation quickly turned into an 18-month production. As part of the process, the original floor plan was altered to improve the flow ...

Chinese developer Full Star Properties scored a construction loan for its condominium tower project in Downtown Los Angeles, a development that first received approvals a decade ago. The U.S. branch of China’s — and the world’s — largest bank by assets, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, provided the $80 million loan for the mixed-use...Read More→ ...

The chairman of a Chicago bank who allegedly bailed Paul Manafort out of foreclosure in exchange for a high-level post in the Trump administration was charged with bribery by federal prosecutors on Thursday. Stephen Calk, chairman of Federal Savings Bank, pressured his bank to lend Manafort $16 million in a string of three separate loans...Read More→ ...

Protesters will wear “poop costumes,” carry plungers Passersby of the Freehand hotel this evening might witness an unusual sight: protestors dressed in “poop costumes” and carrying plungers. It’s part of a scheduled action organized by union Unite Here Local 11 to highlight a complaint filed by a Freehand employee who says he has had to clean up sewage “five inches deep” while working at the property at Eighth and Olive streets. Workers at the Freehand are in the proce ...

The Long Beach City Council has handed renters a victory. In a six-to-three vote, the council approved an ordinance that will require landlords to pay for tenant relocation fees if they increase rent by more than 10 percent in a year, Curbed reported. City Council will have to vote again on the ordinance before it...Read More→ ...

Built in 1895, the five-bedroom home is brimming with charm and character. Pasadena’s Grand Avenue more than lives up to its name, lined as it is with impressive residences produced by the likes of Charles and Henry Greene, Elmer Grey, Myron Hunt, and Reginald D. Johnson. The architecturally blessed street contains three homes designed by the team of Seymour Locke and Jasper Preston, including this splendid Shingle-style that just hit the market. Located at 325 South Grand along ...