Wednesday, May 13

Metro will partially cover Westwood businesses’ revenue losses during construction

Los Angeles Metro will offer local businesses compensation for lost revenue during construction of the Purple Line Extension into Westwood. Metro authorized the expansion of the Business Interruption Fund, which provides funds to locally owned small businesses impacted by transit construction, to compensate businesses for revenue lost during construction of the third and final section of the Purple Line Extension. Read more...

Photo: The Business Interruption Fund is offered by Los Angeles Metro to small businesses that are adversely affected by construction of the Metro Purple Line Extension. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Bruins for Accessible Resources holds first fair, providing variety of goods

Jayesh Menon became motivated to fight homelessness after witnessing a homeless woman begging for food with her infant daughter in Westwood Village last summer. “Everyone around us (was) ignoring her,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Bruins for Accessible Resources, a student organization which coordinates the efforts of homeless outreach programs on and off campus, held its first resource fair Saturday. It offered clothes, umbrellas and hygiene products donated by Good Clothes Good People, the Westwood Presbyterian Church and other groups. (Courtesy of Mark Jones, Sr.)


Westwood residents in disagreement over whether new soccer field should be built

Westwood residents debated adding a new soccer field to Westwood Park at a meeting Thursday. Hundreds of residents packed the Westwood Recreation Center to discuss a plan to replace a large portion of an open grass field with a fenced, public regulation-size synthetic soccer field named after Tommy Mark, a youth soccer player who died in 2018. Read more...

Photo: Hundreds of Westwood residents and community members filled the Westwood Recreation Center on Thursday to discuss the potential creation of a new soccer field in Westwood Park. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin senior staff)


NWWNC to sponsor chamber orchestra performance for Westwood residents, students

Students and Westwood residents can attend a free chamber orchestra concert next year. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council awarded Kaleidoscope, a conductorless chamber orchestra, a $5,000 neighborhood purpose grant at a meeting May 8 to hold a free concert in Westwood in the coming year. Read more...

Photo: The Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, which operates without a conductor, will be performing at Westwood some time next year after receiving a $5,000 neighborhood purpose grant from the North Westwood Neighborhood Council. (Courtesy of Benjamin Hoffman)


Palisociety hotel opens for UCLA students, families in Westwood Village

A new hotel opened in Westwood this month. Palisociety, a real estate development and hospitality operating company, opened the Palihotel in Westwood Village on May 8. Read more...

Photo: Palihotel opened in Westwood Village on May 8. This is the fifth hotel that Palisociety, a real estate development and hospitality operating company, has opened in Los Angeles, with other locations in West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Melrose and Culver City. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)


Community improvement projects to beautify neglected streets of Westwood

Westwood residents will soon enjoy flowers and cleaner sidewalks on a stretch of Westwood Boulevard. The North Westwood Neighborhood Council approved $4,000 in funding for two Westwood Boulevard beautification projects at a meeting May 8. Read more...

Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council approved $4,000 in funding for two Westwood Boulevard beautification projects. The Los Angeles Conservation Corps will be conducting the improvements. (Sim Beauchamp/Daily Bruin)


Places for the People event aims to enliven underused area of Westwood

Students walking in Westwood will be able to stop for a break and refreshments on the corner of Le Conte Avenue and Westwood Boulevard on June 5. Read more...

Photo: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council gave $1,500 in a neighborhood purpose grant to the Graduate Students Association to fund Places for the People, an event to utilize green spaces in Westwood. (Daily Bruin file photo)



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