Comments on: Redevelopment 2.0 won’t rejuvenate ‘old factory belts’

By: Stevo

Stevo — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 04:51:29 +0000

I worked there as my “1st” real job for almost 7 years. Friends whole family did also, how I got a job there @ 19. I worked in the automatic Polishing dept…My Uncle retired from there after 40 years busting his hump on the rack line hanging parts to chrome….Old cronie owner is married to my best buds eldest sister to this day. Aside from the EPA running them out of business, so did China! They sold off the equipment to China as a matter of fact……I see the office is long gone, as are the 2 guard shacks lol. Looks funny all shut down and boarded up like an old dead friend…..Guess my 2 stocks, from 1984 are worthless now Oh Well…….p.s. My job was kinda dirty, and I was the ONLY white boy who stuck it out, any others hired quit on their first breaks lol Sissies! Orale ~

By: JOHN WALSH

JOHN WALSH — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:25:11 +0000

“Drop Dead CRA Day” is celebrated each year on March First to commemorate CRA’s statewide Deathday.
Google and read the many entries. Perhaps next year we will mark CRA’S. demise by holding our celebration at an abandoned electric plating super-sized warehouse!

John Walsh

By: BobA

BobA — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:47:47 +0000

Maybe LA county should convert those old factory belt areas into mini-malls and 99 cents stores. Those are the only types of businesses that are still willing to business in LA anyway.

What California needs is more people on unemployment and more people on welfare to stimulate the state’s economy. After all, the brilliant and astute economist Nancy Pelosi posited this theory and the time has come to give the Pelosian economic model a chance to succeed.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:23:54 +0000

But I should have added that in its former use as a plating operation, the location did indeed have an “excellent employee base”.

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:20:45 +0000

Re: crown city plating.

I know something about commercial real estate.

No big institutional investor would want any part of that, that’s for sure. The structure itself is useless, the stigma of Superfund and its former use……

I found this tidbit of mindless real estate marketing puffery amusing:

“The property is near the highly regarded Pasadena, San Marino and Arcadia residential neighborhoods providing an excellent employee base.”

LOL….I guarantee you that just about NO ONE from Crown City Plating ever lived in any of those three cities, except perhaps the owner. LOL LOL…