The already three-year-long process of revitalizing Bergamot Arts Center, the five-acre parcel of city-owned land directly adjacent to the Expo 26th Street Station, will move forward after the City Council voted 5-to-1 Tuesday to support preliminary plans for the site.…
The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday will consider the next steps in an already three-year-long process aimed at revitalizing the city-owned, Expo-adjacent Bergamot Arts Center, rents from which subsidize the operation of the Big Blue Bus because the city purchased…
The property owner at Bergamot Station that drove out the nonprofit Santa Monica Museum of Art over a difference of opinion is now cashing out. Wayne Blank, who owned about two acres of the roughly six-acre Bergamot Station Arts Center…
We have gotten pretty regular reminders that Expo phase two is almost complete and will soon be transporting passengers through our fair city. Some reminders have been big and others have been smaller, though not any less exciting. In the…
The Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) announced last week that it would be leaving Santa Monica for gallery space in nearby Century City after more than 30 years in the bayside city. Its new home is supposed to be a…
Welcome back! We hope that everyone enjoyed their holidays. At Santa Monica Next, we were able to get some much-needed downtime. Now we’re rested and ready to get back to work. What are you most looking forward to in 2015, Santa…
Writers Boot Camp Gallery at Bergamot Station will host an upcoming exhibition exploring what Santa Monica’s airport could become, if it were repurposed into public open space. On Thursday, October 23 from 6 to 9 p.m., students at the USC Landscape…
Two days after the City Council voted to move forward with plans to revitalize and redevelop Bergamot Station Arts Center, local anti-development group, Santa Monica Coalition for a Livable City (SMCLC), issued a statement, calling the decision an “important win.” Wait,…
After listening to about 100 speakers over four hours, the Santa Monica City Council picked a developer team to advance plans to revitalize the Bergamot Station Arts Center Tuesday night. The City Council voted 5-to-1 against staff’s recommendation that…
On Tuesday, the City Council will decide whether to go ahead with plans for the Bergamot Station Arts Center revitalization project. Three developer teams — Bergamot Station LTD/Worthe, 26Street TOD Partners, LLC, and REthink/KOR — are competing for the right to invest tens…
With election season in full swing, the community discussion about development and the future of Santa Monica has gotten more hostile than usual. At a candidate forum put on by a local anti-development group Monday, peace activist and perennial Council…
Hey! Our first Vote Local event is tomorrow and we hope you can make it! Join us at Bergamot Station for art, pizza, and a mixer, co-sponsored by the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica Spoke, and railLA. Starting at…
