Oct
25
Los Angeles: Westside
Filed Under Real Estate
The Westside of the City of Los Angeles has a population of approximately 1,000,000 people and includes both the incorporated areas and those that are incorporatated cities. West Los Angels Real Estate is above average in cost to many of the Los Angeles County Cities.
Cheviot Hills, Century City, Bel Air, Beverly Crest, Beverlywood, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Palms, Rancho Park, Sawtelle, West Los Angeles, Westwood Venice, Mar Vista, Playa del Rey, South Robertson, Playa Vista, and Westchester, as well as the incorporated cities of Beverly Hills, Culver City, Santa Monica, and the unincorporated county territory of Marina del Rey and Playa Visa.
When people outside of Los Angeles visualize Los Angeles, they picture The Westside. In reality the Westside is a mall portion of the city.The misconception is due to films and Television that often are shot on the westside. Why..Because there is such diverse housing. You will find waterfront homes in Santa Monica and Play del Rey: multimillion dollar homes overlooking the Pacific in Pacific Palisades and estate sized private homes Beverly Hills, & Brentwood areas. Along with small 1920s bungalows in the Culver City area to mention a few.
Century City is a major business hub of the Westside, containing many major production corporations, talent agencies, and entertainment law firms. New developments such as Playa Vista near LAX are important entertainment industry centers along with Santa Monica, Venice and Beverly Hills.
The Westside rivals downtown Los Angeles for the number of people commuting to it from other areas, particularly the South Bay to the south and San Fernando Valley to the north.
The commute from these areas during high traffic times is horrible due to an inadequate freeway system or mass transit system. A large amount of development took place in anticipation of new freeway construction, which never occurred resulting in significant congestion on the area’s surface streets. Nno relief is in site because the proposals to widen the existing freeways or extend the Purple Line to the ocean have been stalled by their great expense; more recently, an old proposal to turn Pico and Olympic into one-way streets has been revived.
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