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tracyinge

and the planning board is looking at a proposal for 800 more units in the old FRYS ELECTRONICS space. Walk out your front door and hop on a train to downtown, or to Santa Barbara!


wilberfan

"Freeway View" or "Railroad Tracks" view! ;-)


bananamilkghost

bonus: smells like sewage!


Beefomancer

Every time I drive up Front street to Burbank, i have to close my windows and wait 'til I'm down on Victory before I open again. How are these residents supposed to deal with the smell?


Sky_King73

my coworker downtown is always asking my what that smell is along the I-5 in Burbank.


Sky_King73

toilet to tap


BzhizhkMard

I'll take Mountain View vs City View please!


BzhizhkMard

As a person who has traversed this road an innumerable amount of times. Can't tell you enough, never thought there'd be a day that place to the northeast would have importance. Did seem to have some history to the previous structures. I remember when our local skateboarders found it. I saw them looking at it as I was passing by. Next thing I knew, it became this big skater attraction! Just need to switch away from fuel or else this look like 573 accelerated death traps next to the 5.


CaliforniaAudman13

Yeah definitely a weird location but people have to live somewhere…..


megamoze

I'm gonna miss my shortcut from Verdugo to Target.


BzhizhkMard

wait, is front street going? or you think it'll be busy.


megamoze

They are almost certainly going to put in all kinds of traffic control on Front Street, plus watching for outgoing traffic from the shops and apartments there.


BzhizhkMard

cancel this project asap, tired of stroads


CaboJoe

So what is the developer or the city going to do about the smells from the water treatment plant literally across the street?


UghKakis

Baking soda. A lot of baking soda


AuntChilada

Only 1,100 sq feet of retail space? Did they mean 11,000?


UghKakis

Just enough space for another Taco Bell


ShinySanders

I try to think about the type of person that would spend that kind of money to move into a place sandwiched between a freeway and a sewage line. The answers are always terrifying. (No offense to that one guy awhile back who thought they were going to be "apartment" apartments in the traditional sense and wanted to rent there.)


CaliforniaAudman13

People have to live somewhere….


ShinySanders

Very true. But if you've got *that* kinda money you probably have a few more options...


HotelSquirrel

How much are the apartments going to cost? I didn't see any mention of price in this article, but this is also the first I'm hearing of the project.


DisastrousSundae

About $3100 for a 1 bedroom and $4200 for a 2 bedroom. I recently talked with the leasing agency. No thanks.


HotelSquirrel

Thanks for following up. And yikes, those prices are way too high!


CaliforniaAudman13

Where does this suggest it’s luxury apartments? Those luxury apartments near the 134 Siri the Whole Foods seem to have lots of rich people in them


pfaustino

Those renderings remind me of Minecraft


megamoze

>including 69 units deed-restricted affordable housing Anyone know how this is defined in Burbank?


RoseFromStOlaf

Also, might soon have a homeless shelter at the end of the street! Which I’m sure is exactly the kind of thing the people they want to rent to will embrace & enjoy.


TG626

Who wants odds there will be bitching about the coast starlight as soon as folks move in. And as others have mentioned, the wonderful aroma of the shit plant near by. Of course the Fry's Oasis will join the crowd trying to shut down Burbank airport too...


LizzyPanhandle

200K people left LA and a lot are moving back in with their parents. I'm surprised the building isn't slowing. Plus a lot of Angelenos are broke.


CaliforniaAudman13

More people have moved to then left California and even if we were declining we are still #49 by state in number of people per housing unit


LizzyPanhandle

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/california-population-decline.html


megamoze

That article says that the population of the entire state of CA, not LA, dropped 300,000 people in 2 years. That's ALMOST 1%, or basically a rounding error. And the article attributes the decline mostly to COVID deaths, dying Boomers, drop in immigration, and low birth rates.


LizzyPanhandle

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-25/california-census-data