RIP, Gilligan
Yes, this is not a political story, but since the show was shot in the 2nd Council District and all of us watched it after we got home from school, here it is.TV's Bob Denver - best known as Gilligan on the hit sitcom Gilligan's Island - has died at the age of 70.
Long rest our little buddy.
Posted by Mayor Sam @ 9/06/2005 11:53:00 AM
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OK WHAT WOULD GILLIGAN THINK OF THE MISUSE OF SCHOOL FUNDS.
COULDN'T THE LAUSD JUST BY SOME LAND AND BUILD, CHEAPER? WHERE DOES ALL THIS MONEY COME FROM, AND STILL OUR KIDS IN LAUSD ARE NOT EDUCATED AS THEY SHOULD BE. THEY ARE FAILING.
School District Signs $25M Lease
By Bob Howard
Last updated: September 6, 2005 06:44am
LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles Unified School District will occupy 117,054 sf of office space at 1055 W. Seventh St. in downtown L.A. in a $25 million lease with San Francisco-based Bristol Group Inc., according to CB Richard Ellis. The school district, which now occupies approximately 255,000 sf at Wells Fargo Tower in downtown Los Angeles, will relocate a significant portion of its operations to the 1055 W. Seventh address in July of 2006.
Eric Duncanson of the downtown L.A. office of CBRE represented the Bristol Group in the 10-year deal, with LAUSD represented by Onno Zwaneveld of Trammell Crow Co. The school district’s new space is a 33-story, 615,000-sf class A office building at the corner of Seventh and Bixel streets in a growing downtown residential district. It is close to the 1100 Wilshire and Medici condominium projects, adjacent to the Harbor Freeway.
The Los Angeles Unified School district is one of the nation's largest, with a K-12 student enrollment of more than 746,800. The district comprises 704 square miles, including the City of Los Angeles and all or part of 28 other cities, as well as some unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.
The West Seventh Street building is part of a Bristol Group national portfolio of more than 13 million sf of commercial properties and 4.2 million sf in pre-development. Its development projects include the 800,000-sf Los Angeles Center Studios entertainment campus in downtown L.A.
The LAUSD downtown deal is one of three office leases signed recently by the school district, according to Zwaneveld, who represented the district in all three leases. In the second deal, the district renewed and expanded for 10 years in 32,064 sf at 5200 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood, with Scott Murphy of Metropolitan Pacific Commercial Real Estate Services representing the landlord, Academy Office Investors LP and RSZ Academy LLC.
City paid $34.1 million for DNC 'publicity ... exposure'
Rick Orlov, Columnist
The ghost of political conventions past returned to haunt the Los Angeles City Council last week in a memo tabulating the final overall costs to the city for the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
The tab? A net loss of $34.1 million.
The city was estimating a loss in the $30 million range back in 2000, but the final figure is now available because the city just recently settled the last of several lawsuits stemming from the convention, said Ray Ciranna, chief administrative analyst for the city administrative office.
The bulk of the costs were for general support, safety and Convention and Visitors Bureau services - but it also cost $5.7 million to settle lawsuits filed as a result of the handling of various protests.
The convention did bring in an estimated $5 million in hotel, sales, parking and business taxes. And the figures do not include the economic multiplier effect of the convention on the city's private sector.
The calculations have not discouraged city officials from wanting to host other such events.
One political connection: Denver was Maynard G. Krebs in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," which also featured Sheila James (Kuehl) as Zelda Gilroy.
Doughwough--BEEEE!!
Ah yes, but who played the original Milton Armitage role?
CM Padilla looked like Gilligan in his college days. And like Gilligan never got of the island, Padilla wont win the Senate. Thats what I hear.
-B.J.
I thought the Professor might be able to save him...
I think a Ginger will come along and entice him away.... She'll ruin it for him. They always do; that's why Leykis calls them dream killers.
Gilligan Padilla is just a puppet. The Howells are funneling him the big bucks.
The professor is busy faking some new inventions for photo ops.
We had asked Senator Sheila Kuehl for a comment on the passing of her former co-star, but we got no response. Oh well.
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