Panera Bread plans to open a location in Westwood Village at the start of May, following a years-long battle to open the restaurant’s doors. The location on Westwood Boulevard has had a “Coming Soon” sign on its storefront windows since early 2013, but has postponed its opening because of complications with a Westwood land-use plan. Read more...
Photo: The new Westwood Panera Bread is under construction, and plans to open its doors as soon as May 1. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Two UCLA community members are looking for student feedback as part of a potential project to start a new late-night ride service for students. Nihal Satyadev, a Westwood resident and former UCLA student, and Ian Cocroft, a third-year political science student, recently released an online survey to gauge the need for an additional ride-service program that would shuttle students to different areas in Westwood. Read more...
The curbside of Broxton Avenue has a new accessory – a bike corral installed earlier this month to make bicycle parking easier for workers and customers in Westwood Village. Read more...
Photo: Sameer Zaidi, a research assistant in life sciences, uses the new bike corral maintenance station on Broxton Avenue to adjust the air pressure in his tires. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
The Westwood Village Improvement Association, also known as the BID, is a nonprofit organization tasked with improving the state of Westwood Village. The BID was created by property and business owners in August 2011 to provide Westwood Village with functions the City of Los Angeles could not provide. Read more...
With signatures scrawled all over the walls and swarms of students lined up outside, the Boiling Crab was bustling around 4 p.m. Tuesday, having opened just a week ago. Read more...
Photo: The Boiling Crab opened in the former Westwood Brewing Company, or Brew Co., location on Feb. 9. (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
University police released photos Tuesday of a man wanted for robbing a UCLA employee at a Westwood ATM earlier this month. Police said the man came up to the employee at a Bank of America machine on Westwood Boulevard, then told the employee to give him money and that he had a gun. Read more...
Photo: University police are looking for a man wanted for robbing a UCLA employee in a Westwood ATM. (UCPD)
Westwood residents and commuters are now able to buy tickets for the Commuter Express bus system on California’s first mobile ticketing app for public transportation. The Los Angeles Department of Transportation launched the LA Mobile app, which allows bus riders to check schedules and purchase tickets for the Commuter Express and DASH bus systems, at a public event Tuesday. Read more...
