Shopoff Realty Investments bought 26 acres at Westminster Mall and and has submitted plans to the city for 1,065 rental units and 102 ownership townhomes. The plan also includes roughly 10% affordable units. (Rendering courtesy of AO) One suggested salve for California’s housing affordability ailments is turning dead or dying retail space into new residences. Bill Shopoff knows a few things about such projects. His company Shopoff Realty Investments controls four California retail properties that could one day be new housing. The veteran real estate developer has learned it’s not easy to create financially viable housing from underperforming stores. It’s no simple task satisfying stakeholders that include home seekers, government, merchants, investors, bankers, and the property’s neighbors. “We find these...
In the end, I packed like ten pairs of shoes. There are the pickleball shoes, several pairs of sandals in various colors, while the same holds true for my Sketchers casual shoes. One blue and one black. Water shoes along with water sandals. Hiking shoes which I broke in yesterday. Yup, just counted them in the closet as I did not want to be exaggerating. Looks like ten to me.It is no exaggeration to say that it is darn pleasant outside. In fact, as I type, the bedroom windows are open, as is the door to the screened porch. We played a whole lot of pickleball this morning and were barely tired, which at first I did not get and...
Katrina Kenny, Author providedMany of the giant marsupials and birds that roamed ancient Australia had vanished by 40,000 years ago. While the duration and drivers of these extinctions remain debated, fossils clearly show the continent lost a host of creatures which would have dwarfed humans, such as short-faced kangaroos, diprotodons, “thunder birds” and giant goannas. Our study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests these end-Pleistocene extinctions also affected smaller creatures such as lizards. These animals comprise most of biodiversity and biomass. A bizarre giant among tiny lizards The most diverse land vertebrates in modern Australia are skinks, which are typically the tiny, nondescript brown lizards that scurry among leaf litter. There are some larger and more...
MAGA cultists' idolatry of their god emperor is so over the top that it's hard to tell when someone is parodying them. Take Gary Peterson, for example. His Twitter bio looks a lot like a typical Trump worshipper, complete with a John Wayne jigsaw puzzle background:
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Bureaucracies generate paper, usually lots of paper. Anything you consider private — especially anything that could get you in trouble — should go in a “burn box” which is usually a locked trash can that is periodically emptied into an incinerator. However, what about a paper shredder? Who hasn’t seen a movie or TV show where the office furiously shreds papers as the FBI, SEC, or some other three-letter-agency is trying to crash the door down? That might have been the scene in the late 1980s when Germany reunified. The East German Ministry of State Security — known as the Stasi — had records of unlawful activity and, probably, information about people of interest. The staff made a best effort...
