
Try Lemonade, a charming restaurant that serves the best lunch in Marina del Rey and Venice. Why This Restaurant Is a Must EatĪre you looking for a relaxing place to munch on the best American comfort foods? Located 6 minutes from Marina del Rey, Lemonade is a cafeteria-style chain that serves seasonal comfort food and various lemonades. Trendy cafes, International dishes, healthy options, and beachside restaurants are only a few of what Marina del Rey offers.Ĭheck out this list to discover the best restaurants in Marina del Rey. However, seafood is not the only thing abundant in this community. "Everything new is designed around privacy and luxury," Gros told the Argonaut, "these were designed for a lack of privacy, and didn’t give a shit about luxury.Marina del Rey’s stunning coastal area and glistening waters make it the perfect culinary destination for seafood. Prices for units at the new Neptune Marina have not yet been released, but at Mariner’s Bay, Legacy’s other new development nearby, studio apartments are renting for $2,575 a month.įormer Neptune resident Jesse Gros is skeptical that Neptune’s former sense of community can be ever be replicated in the high priced development set to replace it. The new Neptune Marina is scheduled for completion in summer 2018, according to Architect magazine. The two-story townhomes of the old Neptune Marina will be replaced by four multistory buildings, 511,655 square feet in all, featuring 526 apartments, 81 one them affordable housing. Plans for the new Neptune Marina call for a midcentury look, albeit a much denser one than the development that preceded it. Renderings for Legacy Partners' Neptune Marina del Rey, designed by our client #TCAArchitects #Multifamily /pWdqWS8Fvu- Macy+Associates January 28, 2016 Comparatively, two-bedrooms elsewhere in the Marina are going for a median rental price of $4,150 a month, according to the Argonaut, which used data from. Before the evictions, two bedrooms at the Neptune were going for just $2,600 a month, and many longtime residents weren’t even paying that much. Not only was the community welcoming in spirit, it also eschewed the high costs usually associated with oceanside living, with residents long enjoying the approachable price point of the aging housing complex. #ilovemdr #marinadelrey #neptunemarina #cali #lovewhereyoulive #california #homesweethome #endofanera #aerial #plane #socal #westcoastbestcoast #beachlife #beach #adventure #fotocatchers #wonderful_cali #discovercaĪ photo posted by Robin on at 9:35pm PST My townhome is being torn down to make way for a shiny new (massive) apartment complex. I have 6 months to move out of this paradise in #mdr. Army Corps engineers working on the project). (As early as 1963, it housed many of the U.S. Officially opened in 1965, the Neptune was one of the first housing developments in the newly developed Marina Del Rey. The Neptune and its residents represent a different era in American history, one where neighbors were on a first name basis and locking the front door was not a necessity. Using markers, several residents even tagged their front doors, a simple act of harmless defiance in the face of homogenized development. The mood was jubilant as residents present and former gathered poolside to reminisce about Neptune’s glory days. Wish me luck! #VeniceForeverĪ photo posted by Kylie Wishart on at 12:50pm PDT

Yet, I'm quite excited for this new chapter in my life. Also, goodbye to my mother and brother who are moving back to the east coast tomorrow. Thank you for serving me in my first few beautiful and painful years in California. Goodbye 14100 Marquesas Way, you have been my sanctuary for the past almost 3 years, we've seen good and we've seen bad, and sadly it's time to part. The local newspaper, The Argonaut, published a sad tale of Neptune residents stopping by for one last pool party at the "Melrose Place of the marina" before it’s demolished to make way for a sleeker multifamily project. Developers are actively looking into gobbling up midcentury Marina stalwarts to convert them into new, higher priced mixed-users.Īugust 26 was the eviction date for one of the Marina’s most celebrated communities, the Neptune Marina. In 2014, the Los Angeles County supervisors approved a massive plan to restructure the Marina, improving pedestrian access and making way for 200,000 square feet of retail space, 940 new hotel rooms, and new, denser housing developments. Now, Marina del Rey is in the midst of a longterm reimagining. Army Corps of Engineers converted 800 acres of Los Angeles marshland into a seaside community with a population of nearly 9,000. The short version of the community's origin story is that in the early sixties, the U.S. For decades, Marina Del Rey has been one of the finest representatives of LA’s midcentury pluck.
