A Pandemic Cookie Sensation Hopes to Raise Some Dough

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Lara Adekoya started her bakery Fleurs et Sel from her West Hollywood apartment in early 2020 pandemic days. Her dome-shaped small-batch cookies and layered cookie bars in flavors like sea salt chocolate chip and Funfetti birthday cake soon became so coveted that pickups were drawing long lines at her home,
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Developer expands plans to build affordable apartments in downtown Manchester

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A California company hopes to expand its plans to bring more affordable apartments to downtown Manchester. In April, Lincoln Avenue Capital, based in Santa Monica, received variances from the Zoning Board of Adjustment in April to tear down the old police station at 351 Chestnut St.
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Manhattan Beach Goat Hill tenants move out early, making way for senior community

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Manhattan Beach could get its first senior living facility sooner than expected, at least according to the landlord. The 53-year-old Goat Hill shopping plaza, 350 N. Sepulveda Blvd., is now vacant and will come down in the next couple of months to make way for a Sunrise Senior Living community,
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Paying a pretty price for the bright lights of Glendale life

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I do love a line from the retired Los Angeles Times columnist, the Jack Smith of a latter era, La Cañadan Chris Erskine: “Pasadena — for when the bright lights of get to be all too much.” I bring this all up in the context of a fascinating news story I saw the other day: has the fourth-highest average rents in the nation,
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