March / April 2008 national periodical
Multihousing Professional Magazine - "A Punch List of a Different Kind"
On February 19, ground was broken on the five-acre site for the 107-unit Tierra Del Rey, the first housing development to rise in the predominantly Latino Los Angeles submarket of South Gate in almost 20 years. It was a big event to celebrate such a small condo project, broadcast by both ABC and NBC networks. The reason for all the media attention was that Oscar De La Hoya- L.A.'s own Golden Boy of boxing- was there to turn the first dirt.
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February 2008 Los Angeles, CA.
Metro Housing Partners, established to develop urban housing in emerging markets, announces its first new residential community in Los Angeles County
Metro Housing Partners, in collaboration with Golden Boy Partners, selected a five-acre site at Firestone Boulevard and Calden Avenue in the City of South Gate on which to develop 107 new townhomes known as Tierra del Rey. This community will be the first significant, newly constructed residential development to be built within the city in decades.
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