All ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen locations, including one on Broxton Avenue, will close Friday. Chipotle, a Mexican fast-food chain that owns the ShopHouse franchise, said in a statement that the restaurant did not generate enough revenue to justify further investment. Read more...
Photo: ShopHouse, a Southeast Asian fast food chain, will close Friday after four years in Westwood. (Erin Gong/Daily Bruin)
The impacts of a city ballot initiative that would tax and regulate marijuana are still unclear. Measure M, a ballot initiative that will allow city officials to tax and regulate recreational and medicinal marijuana, passed Tuesday with about 80 percent of the vote. Read more...
About 6 percent of registered voters in Westwood and on campus voted in Los Angeles County municipal elections Tuesday. Out of 13,081 registered voters on campus, the Hill, the North Village and Westwood Village, only 810 cast ballots. Read more...
Photo: Only 7.5 percent of students registered to vote on the Hill participated in Tuesday’s Los Angeles County municipal elections. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated March 10 at 1:45 p.m. A hazardous materials squad is investigating chemical agents at an apartment complex on Weyburn Avenue. Ten people complained of illness after being inside an underground parking structure at 1010 Glendon Ave., according to a Los Angeles Fire Department alert. Read more...
Photo: Several people complained of illness after being in an underground parking structure on Weyburn Avenue. (Hannah Burnett/Daily Bruin)
The Westwood Neighborhood Council meets monthly to discuss issues pertaining to Westwood Village and the surrounding areas. Comments by public officials Christopher Ragsdale, a Los Angeles Police Department officer for Westwood, said residential burglaries and automobile crimes continue to increase in the district. Read more...
Verizon Wireless may install cellphone signal booster systems on existing street poles in Westwood Village. Verizon originally planned to install five new 33-foot poles that would improve mobile coverage throughout the village, but the Westwood Neighborhood Council and the Westwood Community Design Review Board unanimously voted against Verizon’s proposals Jan. Read more...
Jerry’s Famous Deli, a black building with a wide awning, has stood empty on Weyburn Avenue since 2013. When its original owner died, a Japanese management company bought the building and tried to renovate it, but abandoned the project halfway, said Steve Sann, chair of the Westwood Community Council. Read more...
Photo: The space Jerry’s Famous Deli used to occupy has remained vacant for several years. (Photo illustration by Eda Gokcebay/Daily Bruin and Harish Balasubramani/Illustrations director)
