37-737: The Van Nuys Government Center (aka Van Nuys Civic Center or San Fernando Valley Administrative Center ) is a 17.3-acre (70,000 m) cluster of buildings in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles that houses various local, state and federal government offices and services. It is an important regional hub in the decentralized city of Los Angeles, roughly by bounded by Calvert Street, Sylvan Street, Tyrone Avenue and Van Nuys Boulevard . (Similar hubs include West Valley Civic Center in Reseda and West Los Angeles Civic Center in Sawtelle .) Many of
74-469: A "Great Streets" project was introduced by Mayor Eric Garcetti with Van Nuys Blvd. to be redesigned between Victory Blvd. and Oxnard Street. Also, Sepulveda Blvd. was resurfaced between Victory Blvd and Oxnard Street in May 2014. A new Los Angeles County family services building was built on the southwest corner of Van Nuys Blvd. and Saticoy Street in 2016. Van Nuys is bordered on the north by North Hills , on
111-469: A capacity of 420 people, and a multipurpose/community room with a capacity of 20–25 people. The area has barbecue pits, lighted baseball diamonds, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, lighted handball courts, an indoor gymnasium with no weights, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. Delano Park in Van Nuys has an auditorium, barbecue pits,
148-533: A facility in Sainte-Thérèse . Due to air quality remediation efforts and decreasing market share of GM products, the factory was closed. In 1999, The Plant shopping center opened on the former factory site, anchored by big box retailers and a 16-screen movie theater multiplex. Through the following years there were additions to The Plant shopping center. Sound City Studios is a well-respected recording studio in Van Nuys. Van Nuys, along with Chatsworth,
185-480: A large population of developmentally disabled people living in the San Fernando Valley. The Social Security Administration once operated a branch office on Van Nuys Boulevard north of Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys. This location was closed in 2011, and moved to Panorama City on Roscoe Blvd and Van Nuys Blvd. The Van Nuys Recreation Area is in Van Nuys. The area has an auditorium and gymnasium with
222-501: A lighted baseball diamond, a children's play area, a lighted football field, an indoor gymnasium with no weights, picnic tables, and a lighted soccer field. The Van Nuys adjacent Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area to the west is a large open space park behind Sepulveda Dam . The Metro Orange Line bicycle path connects Van Nuys to it and other valley destinations. It has numerous recreation facilities and natural areas, including
259-479: A lighted soccer field, and lighted tennis courts. Located in the same place as the park, the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Pool is a seasonal outdoor heated swimming pool. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Senior Citizen Center (a.k.a. Bernardi Center), also on the park grounds, has an auditorium and multi-purpose room. The senior community hall also has two community/meeting rooms, two kitchens, a play area,
296-482: A shuffle board area, a stage, and two storage rooms. The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Tennis Courts facility in the Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park has eight courts. Fifteen percent of Van Nuys residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for both the city and the county, but the percentage of the same-age residents who had less than a high school diploma (43.1%)
333-497: A wildlife preserve, cricket complex, and archery range at Woodley Park . The Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Park is in Sherman Oaks , near Van Nuys. The park has an auditorium, two lighted baseball diamonds, six unlighted baseball diamonds, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a 60-person community room, a lighted football field, an indoor gymnasium without weights, picnic tables,
370-413: Is home to numerous pornographic film studios, distributors, and manufacturers. Grupo TACA operates a Van Nuys-area TACA Center at 6710 Van Nuys Boulevard. Various parts of the 1984 film The Terminator were filmed in Van Nuys. The Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 39 (Van Nuys), Station 90 Van Nuys Airport Area , Station 100 West Van Nuys , and Station 102 East Van Nuys , serving
407-495: Is located in Van Nuys. The closest airport with commercial airline service is Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank . It can be accessed via Amtrak and Metrolink service, or by Amtrak Thruway 1C daily bus connections, from Van Nuys station . The FlyAway bus service travels hourly from its terminal at Woodley and Saticoy Avenues to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Van Nuys has two Metro G Line stations:
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#1732786682108444-679: Is served by the 405 (San Diego Freeway) passing through it. Other nearby freeways include the Route 101 (Ventura Freeway) , the Route 170 (Hollywood Freeway) , the Route 118 (Simi Valley Freeway) , and the Golden State Freeway section of Interstate 5 . Valley Presbyterian Hospital is a 350-bed hospital at 15107 Vanowen St, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA 91405. It was founded in 1958 and initially designed by noted architect William Pereira . It has 350 beds, as well as an emergency room which can handle pediatric patients. Also in Van Nuys
481-724: Is served by the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and Coast Starlight , and the Metrolink Ventura County Line . The Amtrak Thruway 1C provides daily connections from Van Nuys station to Santa Monica and Westwood/ UCLA to the south, Burbank Airport to the east, and Newhall and Bakersfield to the north. Van Nuys Boulevard is the planned route for the East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project , scheduled to open by 2031. Van Nuys
518-483: Is the Southern California Hospital, at 14433 Emelita St, which is a psychiatric facility that provides no emergency services. The nearest Kaiser Permanente hospital to Van Nuys is Kaiser Panorama City Medical Center. 34°11′00″N 118°26′00″W / 34.1833°N 118.4333°W / 34.1833; -118.4333 Sepulveda station Sepulveda station is a station on
555-791: The Chevrolet Impala , Corvair , and later was the primary location for the Nova , Camaro , and Pontiac Firebird . Other models built were the Chevrolet Monte Carlo , Chevelle , the Oldsmobile Omega , and the Pontiac Ventura . Badge engineered versions of the Impala, Nova and Camaro were also manufactured at this location. In October 1989, GM announced that Camaro and Firebird production would be moved to
592-593: The G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It is named after nearby Sepulveda Boulevard , which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route. Unique among G Line stations, Sepulveda's platforms are not located at the cross street, but rather about a block west of it. The station is in the Van Nuys neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles , in the central San Fernando Valley . Various development proposals have been considered for
629-788: The Lake Balboa neighborhood in Los Angeles, west of Van Nuys. The U.S. Census Bureau operates the Los Angeles Regional Office in Van Nuys. The California Department of Developmental Services operates the North Los Angeles County Regional Center on Sherman Way west of Sepulveda Boulevard, but they closed that location and moved to a new location on Oakhurst and Plummer in Chatsworth in 2016. The agency serves
666-550: The Sepulveda Dam . A new transfer to the Sepulveda Transit Corridor is expected to be constructed here as part of that project. G Line buses run 24 hours a day. Buses operate every eight minutes during peak hours on weekdays. They operate every ten minutes during the daytime on weekdays and most of the day on weekends. Night service on all days is every 20 minutes. As of June 25, 2023 ,
703-574: The Van Nuys (Los Angeles Metro station) and the Sepulveda (Los Angeles Metro station) which will be rebuilt on elevated bridges by 2024. The G Line connects to the Metro B Line subway at the North Hollywood (Los Angeles Metro station) , for access to Hollywood , Downtown Los Angeles , and other Los Angeles Metro lines. The Metro Busway also uses the Van Nuys station . All stations, and
740-586: The 8.99-square-mile Van Nuys neighborhood—or 11,542 people per square mile. In 2000, the median age for residents was 28, considered young for city and county neighborhoods, and the percentages of residents aged 10 or younger and 19 to 34 were among the highest in Los Angeles County. The neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles. The breakdown was Hispanics , 60.5%; whites , 23.1%; Asians , 6.4%; blacks , 6%; and others, 4%. Mexico (41.5%) and El Salvador (17.3%) were
777-635: The Valley's satellite Los Angeles municipal civic center with the 1932 Art Deco Valley Municipal Building (Van Nuys City Hall), a visual landmark and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument , starting the present-day Government Center complex of government services buildings. In 1991, Marvin Braude, a member of the Los Angeles City Council , redesignated a 45-block area of Van Nuys as a part of Sherman Oaks . This redesignated area included
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#1732786682108814-667: The Van Nuys Government Center since 1992. Van Nuys Van Nuys ( / v æ n ˈ n aɪ z / ) is a neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California . Home to Van Nuys Airport and the Valley Municipal Building , it is the most populous neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. In 1909, the Suburban Homes Company – a syndicate led by Hobart Johnstone Whitley , general manager of
851-517: The board of control, along with Harry Chandler , H. G. Otis, M. H. Sherman and O. F. Brandt – purchased 48,000 acres of the Farming and Milling Company for $ 2.5 million. Henry E. Huntington extended his Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) through the Valley to Owensmouth (now Canoga Park). The Suburban Home Company laid out plans for roads and the towns of Van Nuys, Reseda (Marian) and Canoga Park (Owensmouth). The rural areas were annexed into
888-596: The buildings are fronted by open plaza and garden areas established in 1966 in the area "surrounded by the Valley Police Headquarters, Van Nuys Library and county courts building under construction." A city-operated parking structure is located at 14517 Erwin Street. [REDACTED] Van Nuys station and the G Line Bikeway for cyclists and pedestrians are one block away from the government center. The Van Nuys/Studio City DASH loop has served
925-840: The city of Los Angeles in 1915. The town was founded in 1911 and named for one of its developers, Isaac Newton Van Nuys , a rancher and entrepreneur of Dutch ancestry. It was annexed by Los Angeles on May 22, 1915, after completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct , providing it with the water required for further growth. Van Nuys was the first new stop on the San Fernando Line of the Pacific Electric Railway red cars system, which boosted its early land sales and commercial success. From as far as Alhambra, in 1917, day trips were organized for potential buyers of five-acre farms. Van Nuys became
962-490: The community of Magnolia Woods. Some area residents had presented a petition and several original deeds that stated "Sherman Oaks" to Braude. They argued that the area was a part of Sherman Oaks until the 1960s, when ZIP Codes labeling the area as Van Nuys were established. In October 2005, the Metro Orange Line opened with two stations, Van Nuys station (Los Angeles Metro) and Sepulveda station . In 2014,
999-597: The community. The Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby Van Nuys Community Police Station at 6420 Sylmar Avenue, 91401, serving the neighborhood. The United States Postal Service operates the Civic Center Van Nuys Post Office at 6200 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys (closed and moved outside the Van Nuys civic center to 6531 Van Nuys Blvd, Van Nuys, CA 91401) and the Van Nuys Post Office at 15701 Sherman Way in
1036-453: The construction of the elevated bridge is that LADWP has put up new power poles at Sepulveda and G Line for undergrounding the existing power lines at the intersection before the construction of the bridge's framework. When the new bridge is constructed, the existing Sepulveda station will be relocated on top of the bridge as an elevated station. During the 2028 Summer Olympics , the station will serve spectators traveling to and from events at
1073-542: The county. Renters occupied 73.9% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 26.1%. Van Nuys Boulevard has a long and diverse commercial district along it, as do other major streets crossing through Van Nuys. From December 1947 until August 1992, General Motors operated an automobile factory called Van Nuys Assembly at Van Nuys Boulevard and Arminta Street to augment production efforts at their South Gate Assembly factory, which opened in 1936. The Van Nuys plant manufactured 6.3 million vehicles, including
1110-551: The excess station parking and adjacent commercial parcels between Sepulveda Boulevard on the east, the transit station on the south, Interstate 405 on the west, and the Victory Park neighborhood to the north. A comprehensive study, including conceptual land usage strategies, was prepared for LA Metro by students of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning in mid-2010. Subsequently, conceptual development guidelines for
1147-425: The most common places of birth for the 49.8% of the residents who were born abroad—a high percentage for Los Angeles. There were 4,917 families headed by single parents or 21.3%, considered high for both the city and the county. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $ 41,134, considered average for the city, but low for the county. The percentages of households that earned $ 40,000 or less were high for
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1184-476: The neighborhood's major streets, are served by Metro Local , Metro Rapid , and/or other bus lines and systems. The Metro G Line bicycle path and pedestrian walkway runs in a landscaped zone alongside the entire route, to Pierce College, Canoga Park , and the Chatsworth Station on the west, and North Hollywood on the east. Van Nuys also has Amtrak and Metrolink service at Van Nuys station . It
1221-543: The northeast by Panorama City , on the east by Valley Glen , on the south by Sherman Oaks , on the southwest by the Sepulveda Basin , on the west by Lake Balboa , and on the northwest by Northridge . Its street and other boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Sepulveda Boulevard , the Tujunga Wash , Woodman Avenue and Hazeltine Avenue on the east, Oxnard Street on the south, the Sepulveda Basin on
1258-459: The site were prepared by Metro. Thus far, a development project including an LA Fitness is built on land formerly housing a Wickes Furniture building. Between December 2011 and February 2012, the former Wickes Furniture building was demolished for this project. By October 2012, the LADWP has put up new wooden and metal power poles along Sepulveda Blvd next to the project. The LA Fitness building
1295-549: The southwest and Odessa and Hayvenhurst avenues and Balboa Boulevard on the west. Some former Van Nuys neighborhoods won approval in 2009 by the Los Angeles City Council to break off from Van Nuys and join the neighboring communities of Lake Balboa , Valley Glen , and Sherman Oaks in an effort to raise their property values. City Council member Tony Cardenas "suggested the change was motivated by racism." The 2000 U.S. census counted 136,443 residents in
1332-628: Was built and opened to the public in March 2013. By 2014 and 2015, most of the Sepulveda Station parking lot is now leased to the Keyes car dealerships that are on Van Nuys Blvd for inventory stock. By fall 2019, and spring 2020, Metro will begin construction on a bridge over Sepulveda Boulevard as part of the improvements of the Metro G Line busway to reduce travel times. What started so far on
1369-501: Was high for Los Angeles. Schools within the Van Nuys boundaries are: The Los Angeles Unified School District operates neighborhood public schools: Charter schools include: Van Nuys Middle School was moved into Sherman Oaks in 1991. The school continues to use the name "Van Nuys" despite the move. The Van Nuys Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library serves the community. Van Nuys Airport
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