Surfas restaurant supply is getting kicked out of Culver City

by Sarah J. Gim (Subscribe to Sarah J. Gim's posts)
Posted Aug 16th 2006 7:31PM
Filed under: West Coast, Restaurants, Business, Stores & Shopping, America

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Though the news clips on their website are no longer available, it seems that Surfas, the restaurant supply store in Culver City, Ca, will be closing as of November 1 this year. The City of Culver City has declared the property on which the store is located "Eminent Domain," and will be using it for a large re-development project. According to food blog Eating LA apparently, owner "Les Surfas, whose father opened the store in 1937, has refused to accept Culver City's offer of $4.89 million to buy the Surfas warehouse." Others are speculating that the store will not close,and will simply move to another location.

Tags: cooking utensils, culver city, eminent domain, kitchen equipment, kitchen tools, los angeles, restaurant supply, stores, surfas

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8-17-2006 @ 2:45AM

Trixie said...

This is AWEFUL news to me, since I've always gone to Surfas for my cooking needs. I recently read an article in the L.A. Times about Eminent Domain abuse, and this just seems to be another case in that bowl of problems. There are PLENTY of other places that the city can use for "redevelopment projects". I honestly hope can Surfas can relocate to a "safer" location. At this rate, there aren't going to be a lot of businesses around, just f-ing "luxury" condo's, and starbucks and mickey D's... meh. I'm saddened at this news.

8-17-2006 @ 6:02AM

JoAnna said...

...but they *JUST* remodeled! Like, within the past year, right? And the new place is still a warehouse, but it's got that cute little cafe. (which actually is kinda nice...) Pity.

8-17-2006 @ 11:40AM

azure said...

Ugh! Redevelopment projects serve a purpose, but when they completely eradicate local history/icons it is just wrong. Why can't they plan a multi-use walking city type of redevelopment that can be inclusive of existing sites such as Surfas?

8-17-2006 @ 1:13PM

Bruce Anderson said...

Let me guess. They want to put up a huge apartment block, right? *sigh*

Constitution? What constitution?

10-06-2006 @ 7:40PM

michael said...

why doesn't someone post the name (s) of the people proposing this so we can get rid of them. I keep hearing its the city. Who is doing this?

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