This Week: The PETA build in Echo Park is for sale. The County has approved almost $100 million in bonds to finance supportive housing in two Eastside neighborhoods. And the Los Feliz Goodwill is still headed for the wrecking ball.
Echo Park
The PETA building at 2154 Sunset Blvd. -- the West Coast home of the animal-rights organization -- has been listed for sale at $6.5 million.
Named after famed animal-rights supporter Bob Barker, the PETA office opened in 2012 , helped by Barker's $2.5 million donation. The organization renovated the Art Moderne structure, which was constructed in 1930 as an auto showroom, and employed about 60 people at the site.
The organization is moving its staff to into a smaller building in Silver Lake at Sunset Boulevard and Benton Way that it pur