Home Depot Pulls Out Of S-T!
Breaking News! We just spoke with a high ranking Home Depot official (at 10:45 pm) and he is confirming that HD is backing out of their proposed store in Sunland-Tujunga!
We are still shaking from the news, updates when we settle down and stop celebrating!
Score a big victory for local control and our community!
We are still shaking from the news, updates when we settle down and stop celebrating!
Score a big victory for local control and our community!
Labels: home depot, no home depot, sunland-tujunga
Posted by Unknown @ 1/06/2009 11:08:00 PM
22 Comments:
WOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
United We Stood,
Congratulations to everyone!
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Big Party Coming Soon!
Now on to defeating Prop B!
Congrats, Joe!!! Well done!
Congrats to Joe, Abby and most importantly the folks of Sunland Tujunga who stood up for local control.
This, my friends, is what it is all about. Not just complaining but actually standing up and doing something productive. Now it is time for the people of Sunland Tujunga to come up with a plan of what they would like done with the property and work to make it happen.
Once again, congrats. Let me know when the party is and I will try and fly in.
Hats off to ya Joe.
Hmmm... I somehow forgot to log in on that last comment... anyway hats off to ya again Joe - you can read the last post. :)
Dude - WAY FREAKIN' COOL!
WhoHooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!!!
It is great to find another group against over development in their community that has a victory to appreciate.
You can rest on your laurels for only a short time because there is still much work that needs to be done in the greater L.A. area.
But you need to savor this victory and appreciate what regular residents can do and the power they can create for themselves.
This is great news and is part of other good news in our continuing fight against over developers, lobbyists, bureaucrats, and others who believe they know what is best for us.
It is a true demonstration that WE know what is best for US and if elected officials aren't willing to listen more closely, then perhaps they need to become former elected officials.
www.rneighborhoodsare1.blogspot.com
has a new post.
Together we will stand. Together we will fight. Together WE will save OUR community and pity the fools who try and get in our way.
uuummmm...it's the economy stupid!
But if you yahoo's really wanna think it was you, go ahead and drink up...
Of course they didn't do for us, maybe partially because of us. They are way to selfish to ever acknowledge our efforts. We were just a small inconvienience but what really ratlled their corporate cage is the economy. There is no denying that they, like many other corporations are getting slammed. Had the economy not crashed, they still would be out there as arrogant as ever. We should not thank them the least, they didn't do the right thing ever by us - only by them and their shareholders. We are nothing to them and will never be anything but a nuisance...We should thank, even tho it is hard, thank the economy ! It is a double edge sword because now this lot will sit empty and we must find a new entity to fill this space but with the economy....it is going to be challenging to say the least.
Barbara in Tujunga
9:21 You're right. The fact that the folks in Sunland Tujunga held them up for years had nothing to do with it at all.
The fact that the residents of Sunland Tujunga challenged every move Home Depot made causing them to spend millions had nothing to do with it.
The fact that the residents of Sunland Tujunga had the city issue a stop-work order had nothing to do with it.
The reality is that this store would have been open for business had the good people of Sunland Tujunga not stood up for what they wanted. Of course the economy played a part. But the economy would not have entered into the equation had Home Depot been allowed to complete the store several years ago.
The community deserves this win, as do Joe and Abby. Don't try and take that from them.
Congrats Joe, Abby, Lydia and all the rest of the lovely, lovely people of Sunland-Tujunga! YOU DID IT!
TEQUILA!!!!!
xoxo
OK Jim, and you deserve credit for the obama presidency. Because you were hired by the campaign to do cheesy videos (without obtaining copy rights).
If not for the economy, the fight would have gone on, and the store would have opened.
IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!
But keep tilting and windmills if you please...
You guys are geniuses. Now let's see high unemployment goes up in that area.
Now Foothill Blvd can stay the nice clean, pristine street is now.
If it were not for Joe and Abby and the whole community Home Depot would have opened two years ago and perhaps today would be announcing the closing of their Sunland Tujunga store.
Some of you people are unbelievable.
Rack up another high profile disasterous failure of Latham & Watkins, the "powerhouse" attorneys hired by Home Depot to push its store through the City's planning process.
Let this be a warning to those in Los Angeles who think that hiring Latham & Watkins guarantees political success.
10:41 Once again you speak out of your rear. When I do something for a campaign, I get copyrights. It isn't that hard to do their slick.
This is the reality, as Higby and I have both said - This store would have opened long before the economuy tanked. They were losing buckets of money every month fighting this battle. At some point it no longer penciled out. Now undoubtedly the economy placed its finger on the scale but it was the fight with the community that put that scale there in the first place.
You keep accusing me o "tilting at windmills" and I'll keep racking up instances where people take ownership of their community and beat supposedly unbeatable corporations.
I have one thing in common with Barack - we both believe in the people. You apparently don't.
Remember the lion who had a splinter in his paw ? That is our commmunity of Sunland-Tujunga, small maybe but sure to annoy a lion ! There will not be more unemployment as someone suggested because, they never employed anyone in our community anyway. It just goes back for now, to what it is - an empty lot. We need now to create a new web site and start a courthsip with developers, investors etc...now the second phase of our community's work begins. We are passionate people and can attract good will to our hills.
You people are idiots what you will get instead is a vacant store that will be an eyesore and cause blight for years. Target is not going to go there, neither is an other store. You people have made it so expensive to move into that store that it will remain vacant for years. You will have to go buy your underwear somewhere else for the next ten years and Foothill Blvd will remain the ugly street it is right now with more boarded up buildings and it looking like a rundown Boulevard. The best you will get is third rate mexican supermarket, if you are lucky.
Oddly enough, the same people that said we could never stop Home Depot, are the same ones that now say we will never be able to bring in the right development.
Watch and learn.
No doubt the angry rhetoric from Home Depot apologists are the same slimy people who tried to sell out S-T to Home Depot lobbyists and attorneys. A positive vision for the site is possible and the turncoats tossing bombs at the successful activists are bitter losers.
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