Compare Communities before you move. Find out about shops, restaurants, public facilities, banks etc... School reports and comparisons are also available. Best of all it is a Free Service provided your Los Angleles Coldwell Banker agents.

Free community information available for the following: Los Angeles Community information, neighborhood statistics for Los Angeles, Los Angeles School comparisons. Community and school information for Alhambra, Community and school information for Altadena, Community and school information for Arcadia, Community and school information for Atwater, Community and school information for Azusa, Community and school information for Baldwin Park,Community and school information for Burbank, Community and school information for Bradbury, Community and school information for Covina, Duarte, Community and school information for Eagle Rock, Community and school information for East Flintridge, Community and school information for Echo Park, Community and school information for El Sereno, Community and school information for El Monte, Community and school information for Glassel Park, Glendale, Community and school information for Glendora, Community and school information for Highland Park, Community and school information for Irwindale, Community and school information for La Puente, Community and school information for La Canada, Community and school information for La Crescenta, Community and school information for La Verne, Community and school information for Lincoln Heights, Community and school information for Monrovia, Community and school information for Pasadena, Community and school information for San Dimas, Community and school information for San Gabriel, Community and school information for Shadow Hills, Community and school information for Sierra Madre, Community and school information for South El Monte, Community and school information for South Pasadena, Community and school information for Temple City, Community and school information for West Covina, Community and school information for La Canada. Los Angeles Real Estate, Los Angeles Homes, Realtors in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Real Estate Agent, homes, townhouses, condos, condominiums. Coldwell Banker Los Angeles

 Community Reports

Azusa real estate / Azusa community information

 Azusa is nestled at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. Its gentle slopes rise into the Angeles National Forest and overlook the San Gabriel Valley. The natural beauty is year round in Azusa. You'll find living in Azusa a friendly experience, meeting personalities through community churches, local schools, and civic events. Azusa is an excellent place to raise a family. The ambiance is that of a small community with strong historical roots, dating back to1887 when the city was founded. Azusa is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 44,712 at the 2000 census.    Though often assumed to be a compaction of the phrase "everything from A to Z in the USA", the place name "Azusa" traces back to at least the eighteenth century. "The Azusa" originally referred to the San Gabriel Valley and river, and likely derives from the Tongva place name Asuksagna. ^[1]  Azusa is home to Azusa Pacific University, a private Christian university.

Notable Residents of Azusa Include: Hank Aguirre, born in Azusa, major league baseball player^[2] , Anthony Robbins, raised in Azusa, Motivational Life Coach, Rocky Dennis, born with a rare disease, a movie staring Cher was later made about his life., Judson Scott, actor(ABC's 1982 science-fiction series "The Phoenix").

Azusa is currently in the midst of a city wide renaisance with the re-development of The Downtown Core, The Citrus Crossing, and the development of The Rosedale Communities. Rosedale is a new master-planned community with homes for sale in historic Azusa, California. Offering diverse architectural styling rich in tradition, and home town charm in a remarkable setting, 1,250 new homes are planned with a wide range of luxurious single-family estates to moderately priced condominiums. Detailed information on these exciting projects and Doing bussiness in Azusa can be found through the following links. 

Azusa official website

Azusa Chamber of Commerce

New and Urban Housing Opportunities

Rosedale, Azusa's new master planned community 

Garnet Hill at Rosedale

     

Eagle Rock Real Estate /  Eagle Rock Community Information

Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by the city of Glendale on the north and west,      Highland Park on the south, and the cities of Pasadena and South Pasadena on the east. Major thoroughfares include Eagle Rock Boulevard, Colorado Boulevard, and Figueroa Street. The Glendale and Ventura freeways run along the district's western and northern edges, respectively. A massive boulder at the district's northern edge contains an indentation which casts a vaguely bird-shaped shadow on the rock at certain times of day; the neighborhood derives its name from this geological feature. Some old-timers claim to be able to point out two different eagles, the bird-shaped shadow, the entire head of the eagle.The entire city has been experiencing gentrification for the last few years as young urban professionals, finding themselves priced out of Los Feliz, Silverlake and Echo Park, have found still affordable housing in this fine city. A core of counter-culture writers, artists, and filmmakers has existed in this town since the 20s, and is being supplemented by the recent influx of hipsters. The town was well known during the late 50s, 60s and 70s for its sizable Hot Rodder culture, which is now, sadly, almost defunct. Eagle Rock boasts a significant Filipino and Latino population. With an "Anytown, USA" feel to it, this community has often been the choice as a film location for neighboring film studios. Cameos include Top Gun,  Hunt for Red October, and a second-season episode of The O.C.Star Trek III, was partially filmed on the campus of Occidental College. Quentin Tarantino filmed parts of Resevoir Dogs here and in neighboring Highland Park. Eagle Rock is the site of Occidental College, designed by famed architect Myron Hunt, and built in 1914. Occidental consistently makes the various top 40 lists of American colleges. Eagle Rock is home to many historic and achitecturally significant homes, many done in the Craftsman, Georgian, Streamline Moderne, Art Deco and Spanish / Mission Style.

Famous residents of the area include: Actresses Madeleine Stowe, Marley Shelton, Lindsay Wagner and famous boxer Fernando Vargas Jr. are natives of Eagle Rock. John Steinbeck lived on Campus Road in the 1920s while lecturing briefly at Occidental College. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote Good Will Hunting while living in a home on Hill Drive in Eagle Rock. Famous boxer Fernando Vargas Jr. attended Eagle Rock High School from 1992 to 1998. In the movie Days Of Thunder, Tom Cruise's character was from Eagle Rock. A house on the 5200 block of Shearin Avenue was used during the 1984 filming of Teen Wolf, starring Michael J. Fox. Senator Barack Obama, actor Luke Wilson, filmmakers Terry Gilliam and Marcel Ophüls resided here while attending Occidental College. Celebrated fine artist Dory Grade has lived in Eagle Rock for over 40-years, and is still active.

The following are community organization links for Eagle Rock

• Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce
• Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council
• TERA (The Eagle Rock Association)
• Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society 

 

Highland Park Real Estate /Highland Park Community Information 

One of the oldest settled areas of Los Angeles, Highland Park is also one of the most scenic due to its architecture and location between the Mt. Washington hills, the San Rafael hills and the Monterey Hills, Los Angeles, California.There are large sprawling parks in the area, including the Arroyo Seco Park and the Ernest E. Debs Regional Park. The Southwest Museum , with one of the largest and most significant collections of Native American artifacts in the country, is located in adjacent Mt. Washington. The light rail Metro Gold Line from Union Station to Pasadena (traversing all of Highland Park) is one of the most enjoyable and dynamic public transportation journeys in the city, because of views offered by the parks, hills and valleys along the meandering Arroyo Seco.

Highland Park is located along the Arroyo Seco. It is situated within what was once Rancho San Rafael of the Spanish / Mexican era. Its boundaries are roughly the Pasadena Freeway (CA-110) and the city limits of South Pasadena on the southeast, the city limits of Pasadena on the east, Oak Grove Drive on the north, and Avenue 50/51 on the west. The district's neighbors include Mt. Washington on the southwest, Montecito Heights on the south, Hermon and Monterey Hills on the southeast, South Pasadena on the east, Pasadena on the northeast, Eagle Rock on the north, and Glassell Park on the west. Primary thoroughfares include York Boulevard, Avenues 50, 54, and 64, Monte Vista Street, and Figueroa Street. Highland Park is served by the Gold Line, a light rail system that largely runs at street grade parallel to Figueroa Street until turning east into South Pasadena at Avenue 61. The district's ZIP code is 90042

 

Los Angeles Real Estate / Los Angeles Community Information

Los Angeles and [los a?xeles] in Spanish) is the largest city in the state of California by population and the second most populous city in the United States.^[1] Often abbreviated as L.A., it is an alpha world city having an estimated 2006 population of 3,849,378^[2] and spanning 469.1 square miles (1,214.9 square kilometers). The Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana metropolitan area is the estimated home to nearly 13 million people.^[3] Nearly 18,000,000 people live in the Greater Los Angeles Area also known as the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside CSA. Los Angeles is the county seat of Los Angeles County and its inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos."

Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula). It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following independence from Spain and then a part of the United States in 1848 at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. It was incorporated as a municipality on April 4, 1850—five months before California achieved statehood.

As an alpha city, Los Angeles is one of the world's centers of culture, technology, and international trade, and is home to world-renowned institutions in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. The city and its immediate vicinity lead the world in producing popular entertainment—such as motion picture, television, and recorded music—which forms the base of Los Angeles' international fame and global Status. 

 

History of Los Angeles:

The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva (or Gabrieleños) and Chumash Native American tribes thousands of years ago. The first Europeans arrived in 1542 under Joao Cabrilho, a Portuguese explorer who claimed the area as the City of God for the Spanish Empire In 1771, Franciscan friar Junipero Serra had the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel built near Whittier Narrows in what is now called San Gabriel Valley.[6]  In 1777, the new governor of California, Felipe de Neve, recommended to the viceroy of New Spain that the site previously recommended by Juan Crespi be developed into a pueblo. The town was founded on September 4, 1781 by a group of 44 settlers and was named "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula,"

("The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels on the River Porciúncula").[7] These settlers were of Filipino, Native American, African, and Spanish ancestry, with two-thirds being mestizo or mulatto; a majority of the settlers had at least partial African ancestry.[8] The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820 the population had increased to about 650 residents.[9] Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the historic district Olvera Street, the oldest part of Los Angeles.[10] New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, and the pueblo continued as a part of Mexico. Mexican rule ended during the Mexican-American War, when Americans took control from the Californios after a series of battles, culminating in the signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847. Later, with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the Mexican government formally ceded Alta California and other territories to the United States. Railroads arrived when the Southern Pacific completed its line to Los Angeles in 1876.[11] Oil was discovered in 1892, and by 1923 Los Angeles was producing one-quarter of the world's petroleum.[12] By 1900, the population had grown to more than 100,000 people [13], which began to put pressure on the city's water supply.[14] The 1913 completion of the Los Angeles aqueduct under the supervision of William Mulholland assured the continued growth of the city. In 1915, Los Angeles began the annexation of dozens of neighboring communities without water supplies of their own. 

In the 1920s, the motion picture and aviation industries flocked to Los Angeles. In 1932, with population surpassing one million[15], the city hosted the Summer Olympics. This period also saw the arrival of exiles from the increasing pre-war tension in Europe, including Thomas Mann, Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, and Lion Feuchtwanger. World War II brought new growth and prosperity to the city, although many of its Japanese-American residents were transported to internment camps for the duration of the war. The post-war years saw an even greater boom as urban sprawl expanded the city into the San Fernando Valley.