Panorama City, Los Angeles, California

Panorama City, Los Angeles, California

Panorama City is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.

It is bordered by Arleta on the north, Sun Valley on the east, Van Nuys on the south, and North Hills on the west. Major thoroughfares include Roscoe Boulevard, Van Nuys Boulevard, and Sepulveda Boulevard. The district is served by the San Diego and Hollywood freeways.

Panorama City was developed as a planned community by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. Contrary to popular perceptions of the development of the central and western San Fernando Valley as solely being a bedroom community for jobs in downtown Los Angeles and Burbank, Panorama City originally included General Motors' largest assembly plant to date, as well as a Schlitz brewery that eventually came under the ownership of Anheuser-Busch.

Today, the General Motors Corporation assembly plant has been replaced with a large commercial center named The Plant, that includes stores and restaurants such as Mann Theaters, Ross, Babies "R" Us, The Home Depot, Hometown Buffet, In-N-Out Burger, Starbucks Coffee and others.

As originally planned, the community is a mixture of small single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. Kaiser and his development partner Fritz Burns barredFact|Citation Needed|date=October 2008 non European Americans from purchasing newly built homes. Integration followed the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. The CRA insured credit was provided to the entire community without regards to race or income, causing white flight as with many other areas of the San Fernando Valley. The area is now majority Mexican.

Education

Primary and secondary schools

Public schools

Panorama City is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The community has five public elementary schools:
* Burton Street Elementary School
* Chase Street Elementary School
* Liggett Street Elementary School
* Noble Avenue Elementary School
* Ranchito Avenue Elementary School

[http://vistamiddle.com Vista Middle School] (opened in September 2004) and Panorama High School (opened in 2006) [http://www.laschools.org/employee/mpd/fs-mpd/download/map_booklets_2006-2007/Proj01MB.pdf] serve the community.

Prior to the opening of Vista Middle School, some of the community was served by [http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Byrd_MS Byrd Middle School] , while the other portion was served by [http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Fulton_MS/ Fulton Middle School] and [http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Sepulveda_MS/ Sepulveda Middle School] .

Prior to the opening of Panorama High School, some of the community was zoned to John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, some of it was zoned to Van Nuys High School, and some of it was zoned to Monroe High School.

Private schools

St. Genevieve Elementary School (K-8) and St. Genevieve High School (9-12) are private schools in the community.

Colleges and universities

Kaplan College - Panorama City is a career college in the community.

ee also

* Panorama High School
* Van Nuys Boulevard

External links

* [http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/communities/2004/la-re-guide25apr25,0,1257916.story?coll=la-realestate-communities-2004 "Los Angeles Times", Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column: " [Panorama City:] It's not about the past; it's about potential" (25 Apr 2004)]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Los Angeles, California — Los Angeles Pour les articles homonymes, voir Los Angeles (homonymie). Los Angeles …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California — Sun Valley is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by Burbank in the east, Shadow Hills on the north, Panorama City in the west, Pacoima to the northwest, and North Hollywood in the… …   Wikipedia

  • North Hills, Los Angeles, California — North Hills is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.North Hills is one of the oldest communities in the San Fernando Valley. Formerly known as Sepulveda, the community was renamed North Hills in 1992 …   Wikipedia

  • Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California — Mission Hills is a suburban community in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is located near the northern junction of the Golden State Freeway (Interstate 5) and the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405). The… …   Wikipedia

  • Los Angeles (Kalifornien) — Los Angeles Spitzname: City of Angels, L.A., Horizontal City Skyline von Los Angeles …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Century City (Los Ángeles) — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Vista del panorama urbano de Century City desde el Getty Center. El distrito de Century City es un centro financiero, comercial y residencial de 712.000 m² (176 acres) en el lado oeste de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Edendale, Los Angeles, California — Edendale is a historical name for a district in Los Angeles, California, northwest of downtown, in what is known today as Echo Park and the eastern edge of Silver Lake. In the opening decades of the 20th century, in the era of silent film,… …   Wikipedia

  • Arleta, Los Angeles, California — Arleta is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It was considered part of Pacoima until the late 1960s, when the areas of Pacoima west of the Golden State Freeway (I 5) seceded and formed a new… …   Wikipedia

  • Los Angeles — Spitzname: City of Angels, L.A., Gang Capital of the Nation, Horizontal City Skyline von Los Angeles (Downtown LA) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES, city in S. California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory; the third most populous city in the U.S. and the largest city in area in the world. Los Angeles County is the home of some… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”