Top 11 Neighborhood Amenities in Valley Village, Los Angeles, California
Geography: Valley Village is located in southern-most part of Los Angeles' beautiful San Fernando Valley. We are a small community east of the Tujunga Wash, north of the Ventura (101) Freeway, west of the Hollywood (170) Freeway and south of Burbank Boulevard. We are close to everything a family could want (libraries, shopping, parks, schools, churches, restaurants, and a theater arts district). Valley Village is home to 22,000 residents. Quaint, quiet, with tree-lined streets, it is off the beaten paths of our larger, sister communities. We encourage all residents to join the Valley Village HOA. Valley Village is a 2.09-square-mile city that lies centrally located to all attractions throughout the Los Angeles area. Education: Students of the neighborhood attend schools that are within the LAUSD. Elementary schools are Colfax, Burbank (Valley Village) and Riverside Elementary School (in Sherman Oaks). Middle schools include Walter Reed and Millikan Middle School. High School students attend either North Hollywood High School or Grant High School. Oakwood School is a private school in Valley Village. Recreation: Valley Village Park, as well as the North Hollywood Recreation Center serve the area of Valley Village. The recreation center has an auditorium, lighted indoor baseball diamond courts, lighted outdoor baseball diamonds, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, lighted handball courts, picnic tables, an outdoor unheated seasonal pool, and lighted tennis courts. In addition, the center has an indoor gymnasium, which can be used as a second auditorium and a community room; the gymnasium's capacity is 250 people. Dining: Fine, Casual, Mom & Pop’s style dining within minutes of your new home! Entertainment: Universal Studios, Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood Bowl, Wax Museum, The Getty Museum, too many to list. Valley Village Homeowner Assoc. continues to work hard to make this a better place to live where neighbors know and care about each other. VVHA gained a powerful ally in Neighborhood Council Valley Village as a champion for quality of life issues. Development plans are routinely required to be presented to the neighborhood council for review and amended if warranted. The two organizations work closely for the betterment of life for the stakeholders of our community. NCVV, along with the community at large, is indebted to the VVHA for its pioneering efforts to insure Valley Village remains a great place to live.
Van Nuys City Hall
Valley Municipal Building — Van Nuys Government Center, serving the San Fernando Valley in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. A Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. A large valley and region of Los Angeles County in Southern California.
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(Site description based on Wikipedia)
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NoHo Red Line Station
The Red Line is a heavy rail subway line running between Downtown LA via the districts of Hollywood and Mid-Wilshire to North Hollywood within Los Angeles where it connects with the Metro Liner Orange Line (bus rapid transit) service for stations to the Warner Center in Woodland Hills and Chatsworth. It is operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The Red Line, which is one of six lines forming the Metro Rail rapid transit system opened in stages between 1993 and 2000. Together with the Purple Line, these two heavy rail lines combine to form L.A. Metro Rail's busiest line. As of October 2013, the combined Red and Purple lines averaged 169,478 boardings per weekday.
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Sherman Oaks Galleria
Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. The multi-cultural mall, which formed around it and the nearby malls, formed the basis of the 1982 satirical song "Valley Girl" by Frank Zappa and daughter Moon Zappa. The mall has also been a shooting location for many films, most notably the seminal 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as well as the 1983 film Valley Girl, both of which focused on the early 1980s San Fernando Valley youth culture.
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Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market, Inc. is an American foods supermarket chain specializing in organic food that first opened on September 20, 1980. With stores in the US, Canada, and the UK, Whole Foods Market is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is an American privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California, in Greater Los Angeles. As of 16 May 2014, Trader Joe's had a total of 418 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California.
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Costco Wholesale
Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American membership-only warehouse club that provides a wide selection of merchandise. As of 2014, it is the second largest retailer in the United States and the third largest in the world and the largest membership warehouse club chain in the United States.
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24 Hour Fitness
24 Hour Fitness is the world's largest (by memberships) privately owned and operated fitness center chain, and third in number of clubs behind Gold's Gym and Fitness First of the UK. It currently has 425 clubs, 18,000 employees in the U.S.A., and an undisclosed number of employees working in a customer services call-center in the Philippines and another call center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 24 Hour Fitness also employs a collections contracting company located in Jamaica. The corporate office is located in San Ramon, California and a processing center is located in Carlsbad, California.
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Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City
Located within the area of Universal City is the theme park for Universal Studios Hollywood; the Universal CityWalk shopping and entertainment center; the former Gibson Amphitheatre; and Universal's studios, sets and back lots. Within the Los Angeles city limits are 10 Universal City Plaza, a 36-floor office building for Universal and NBC; the Sheraton Universal; and the Universal Hilton. The Metro Red Line underground station of the same name is located opposite the 10 Universal Plaza.
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Valley Village Park
Valley Village Park, an unstaffed pocket park, as well as the North Hollywood Recreation Center serve the area of Valley Village. The recreation center has an auditorium, lighted indoor baseball diamond courts, lighted outdoor baseball diamonds, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, lighted handball courts, picnic tables, an outdoor unheated seasonal pool, and lighted tennis courts. In addition the center has an indoor gymnasium, which can be used as a second auditorium and a community room; the gymnasium's capacity is 250 people.
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North Hollywood Park
The North Hollywood Recreation Center is mostly in North Hollywood, with a portion in Valley Village. The Valley Plaza Recreation Center in North Hollywood includes an auditorium, barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a 40 person community room, a lighted American football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, an outdoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables, lighted tennis courts, and unlighted volleyball courts. The Jamie Beth Slavin Park, an unstaffed pocket park with unlighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, and picnic tables, is in North Hollywood.
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Universal City
Universal Studios Inc., is an American film studio, owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBC Universal, and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
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