Scallions, a Chinese restaurant on Broxton Avenue in Westwood Village, has closed. My colleague told me that rents were rising.
What I don’t get is how owners justify raising rents in a tough economy and in a business district with 40 empty storefronts (wait, make that 42 when including Frege, the hair salon, and Scallions).
Which business will close next?
Westwood has one fewer hair salon these days. FREDA (or was it FRODE?) on Westwood Boulevard next to Glitterati in Westwood Village has gone out of business.
RIP.
If it is any consolation, Westwood Village will get a little bit of love tomorrow. WOMP, an acronym of some sort to connote Westwood, clean-up, and desperately overdue, will take place in the Village. It is organized by UCLA’s Volunteer Center and the Westwood Community Council.
Too little, too late…