ALTA Lofts is honored to host the Paint Factory Art Exhibition where some of the world’s most renowned street artists will present their work..

This landmark show for LA Street Art will showcase some of Los Angeles’ best street artists. Cre8 is one of LA’s most recognized street artists whose work has gone beyond our city limits to gain worldwide recognition.

Meet Cre8

Eric “Cre8” Walker is a graffiti writer, muralist, illustrator and arts instructor based out of South Central Los Angeles. Cre8’s letters have classic feel to them and range from highly complex and difficult to decipher ‘Wildstyle’ compositions to clean highly readable sign style lettering and clean ‘hand styles’.

Heavily influenced by all the elements of Hip Hop, Cre8 is a skilled b-boy as well as a graff writer. An accomplished fine artist, Cre8 has exhibited his canvases in galleries and museums. He has also been featured in art and lifestyle magazines throughout the United States, Japan and Europe.

Cre8 is just one of the many artists that stand to make this art exhibition one of the best in the LA art scene. Plan to attend the Paint Factory Art Exhibition at ALTA Lofts and bid on the works of Cre8 and other revered LA street artists.

Paint Factory Art Exhibition is presented by I.C.U. Art (In Creative Unity).

RSVP is required. Please send to: jeanna@icuart.com.

Chinatown Summer Nights

Every Saturday in August, KCRW and Community Arts Resources present Chinatown Summer Nights. Chinatown Summer Nights features public art and workshops, culinary demonstrations, outdoor video projections and a sampling of LA’s food trucks. KCRW sponsors the event and each week a new DJ rockin’ the dance floor – all in the heart of one of LA’s most unique neighborhoods.

Downtown Los Angeles Artwalk

This free, self-guided tour of Downtown Los Angeles’ hottest art community takes place on the 2nd Thursday of every month from 12-9pm. Each art gallery has its own operating hours so be sure to check individual gallery websites to ensure the spaces you want to visit will be open when you come. Click here for a List of Galleries. Downtown is littered with some of the hottest new hotspots if you are looking for libations and the streets are also lined with food trucks.

B Movies and Bad Science at the Natural History Museum

Get your geek on with some vintage sci-fi and horror flicks at the Natural History Museum! Check out a spotlighted B-movie memorabilia, including lobby cards, posters, and even actual movie props. It’s where hot summer nights mash-up real science and reel science!

Outdoor Cinema Food Fest

The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest mixes Los Angeles’ love of food with its love of entertainment. With new food trucks every week, the Outdoor Cinema Food Fest will feature over 60 different food trucks over the eight week series. Most movies take place on the eastside at Exposition Park near USC or Grand Hope Park on 8^th and Grand downtown. With hits like the Hangover and the Buttermilk Truck – you can’t go wrong!

The Metro Gold Line. Your Beeline for Art and Culture!

Just steps away from ALTA Lofts is a connection to LA Metro’s Gold Line and your connection to the LA’s burgeoning epicenter of art and culture: Downtown Los Angeles.

Downtown is the new home of LA’s art scene. Every second Thursday, take a ride on the Gold Line to enjoy Downtown’s Art Walk. Avoid traffic, parking fees and even parking tickets by hopping on the Gold Line and heading Downtown to get your art on.

It’s not just about the growing number of galleries; there are other attractions like LA’s famed MOCA – which has been leading the contemporary art scene since 1940, The Disney Concert Hall, The Mark Taper Forum and more.

The Gold Line is not just your connection to LA’s artistic heartbeat; more and more restaurants and local watering holes are headed back to this historic core as well. Hotspots such as The Varnish, Broadway Bar and the Golden Gopher are capturing the hearts of local hipsters that have moved back downtown. Chaya has added a branch to their family of European Asian restaurants. Chef Celestino Drago has opened Drago Centro and the ladies who brought us the Border Grill have opened Ciudad.

If you’re craving art, music, theater an amazing mean and even a good drink – the Gold Line is your connection and it’s just steps away from ALTA Lofts.

Join us for a Wine and Chocolate Pairing Sunday, June 13^th from 2-4pm at ALTA Lofts

Looking for something to do on this Sunday afternoon? Why not wind down the weekend with some wine and chocolate and get a glimpse of LA’s coolest new loft community – ALTA Lofts.

This Sunday, June 13^th from 2 – 4 PM, ALTA Lofts is hosting a wine and chocolate pairing with LearnAboutWine.com and Marabel Farms. Come and learn which wine is paired best with which chocolate while exploring the models ALTA lofts.

We are especially excited about this pairing because Ian Blackburn, master sommelier of LearnAboutWine.com, will make a rare personal appearance to dole out information on each pairing. Marabel Farms, an organic grower of cocoa beans will be providing some of the finest, organic chocolate available, and Ian will be matching these chocolate delights with the perfect wine.

As if you needed anything more, the event takes place in unit 406, a fully decorated model at ALTA and gives you a glimpse into life at ALTA Lofts.

This weekend just got better. Join us at ALTA for a little lesson on two of life’s greatest pleasures – wine and chocolate. What a perfect way to end a weekend: wine, chocolate and a view of LA’s coolest new loft community.

Your patience has finally paid off! ALTA Lofts is now selling. It’s time to live Bold, live ALTA and still live within your means. These artistic lofts are priced from the $200,000s and are an amazing deal by any standards. That’s right, from the $200,000s for a new loft in Los Angeles. And, FHA financing will be available.

Here’s what you get from the $200,000s:

Live Bold with authentic loft living in every sense of the word. You’ll find raw spaces crafted from an historic building: the Fuller Paint Warehouse Building. ATLA Lofts was designed with the creative professional in mind. Each loft is a canvas for creating a space inspired by your life. No more making your life fit into a space. Live Bold and create your own space at ALTA.

ALTA is located in one of the most historic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights. Growing in popularity for its sense of community and quickly becoming a hot bed for the creative at heart, Lincoln Heights is in close proximity to Downtown L.A., Chinatown, Dodger Stadium, Silverlake and more. There is also the Metro Goldline station within walking distance. But, if you have to drive, ALTA has an attached parking garage helping you to avoid one of L.A.’s greatest hassles – PARKING!

Live BOLD. Live ALTA. Live within your means. Priced from the $200,000s – ALTA Lofts are now selling. Come in today and pre-qualify for FHA financing.

Sometimes, a bit of history can bring a lot of style.

ALTA Lofts, an adaptive re-use project of the 1925 Fuller Paint Company Warehouse, has a rich history. But just because something has a history – doesn’t make it obsolete. ALTA’s four-story building got more than a face-lift with the restoration; it grew 2 stories with the renovation adding a modern twist to its old stories.

Formerly a paint warehouse, ATLA Lofts received about a $20-million makeover. The adaptive re-use trend of converting obsolete buildings with extraordinary architecture into new housing moved beyond downtown into Lincoln Heights. This 85-year old building has been converted into one-of-a-kind lofts that rival the loft spaces of New York City.

The makeover of the Fuller building included adding a light well in the middle of the structure, creating an open courtyard from the roof to the ground floor as well as adding two new floors of brand-new, modern lofts – giving edge to the existing structure. Not to mention, a 150-stall parking structure that was built adjacent to the existing building.

The original 1925 Fuller Paint Company Warehouse structure was designed by famed architects Morgan, Walls and Clements, whose work also includes other Los Angeles landmarks such as the Wiltern Theater and Mayan Theater. The facade reflects the Spanish Revivalism style, popular at the time, and makes use of Churrigueresque ornamentation which is part of L.A.’s architectural history.

Just a short jaunt from the Gold Line Metro Rail, ALTA is located in an area of Los Angeles that has roots, history and style. With a view of Dodger Stadium, and a neighbor to many of LA historically rich areas such as Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Downtown LA, Silverlake, Echo Park and more.

ALTA Lofts is part of L.A.’s movement to re-use, revamp and restore architecturally unique spaces and maintain some of the rich history of Los Angeles; all from the $200,000s.

Over the last decade or so, loft living – once thought to be only for the truly bohemian and starving artists - has become an increasingly popular lifestyle.

Attribute this to the cool raw spaces that classic lofts provide, hip locations or large windows which lofts are known for which allow both natural light and urban views to spill in. It’s no wonder that this trend has caught on.

But, because it’s trendy, lofts are going up everywhere. True, classic lofts are harder and harder to come by. For some, the purists, many new loft developments have stretched the term “loft living” a little too far. This is not the case at ALTA Lofts.

ALTA is loft living in its purest forms. For example: no two lofts are alike, the building, formerly the Fuller Paint Warehouse, was constructed in 1925 and is a perfect blend of industrial heritage and raw space, and ALTA is located in a traditional urban setting near downtown LA where the city looks, feels and literally is at your finger tips. All of this makes ALTA a homerun for any loft-loving purist.

Being a member of an elite group doesn’t mean that we can’t have some modern style. ALTA also is adding some modern amenities. ALTA Lofts will have a community social room, a workout area and a BBQ, fusing the modern with the traditional – which is really what ALTA is all about with its two top floors of newly constructed lofts – set atop of some of the purest loft space available in Los Angeles.

Looking to celebrate the 40^th Anniversary of Earth Day? Here are some local Eastside events to consider:

Sustainable Silver Lake

Sustainable Silver Lake will host “A Promise for the Planet” at Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd) Thursday, April 22^nd, from noon to 5PM.

A party for the Eastside eco-conscious: Local residents, business owners, school children, celebrities, and government officials, will publicly promise and pledge to adopt at least one more eco-friendly practice in their lives. These pledges will be video recorded and rebroadcasted online at www.dublab.com. Dublab – world renowned DJs and musicians will also spin. KCRW’s Anthea Raymond, KPCC’s Alex Cohen, and actor Ross Marquand will be the MCs. In the spirit of the event, the following green organizations will have information tables: Heal the Bay, Food Forward, The LA Stormwater Program, MTA, and The Eastside Bike Club.

A Global Block Party

Global Block Party sponsored by the Assembly Line Collective Saturday, April 24 from 11:00am - 8:00pm at 1354 Margo St. Los Angeles

A Block party for Eastside Hipsters in Downtown LA! Replete with local vendors and live performances from Pac Div, Dom Kennedy, Overdoz, Tiron, BJ the Chicago Kid, Kendrick Lamar, Carter, Skeme, Rob Roy, Skotch Davis, and more.

There’s no cover. Live art by Codak and Jim Darling will be featured as well as a booth from the Assembly Line Store with more art to check out.

The 3rd Annual Wilshire Center Earth Day/Car Free Day Event

The 3rd Annual Wilshire Center Earth Day/Car Free Day Event will take place on the lawn of the Wilshire Park Plaza building at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles (between Oxford and Serrano) on Thursday, April 22nd from 11 AM - 3 PM. Locals are encouraged to bike, walk or take public transportation to the event.

If you are looking to celebrate Earth Day’s 40^th and recycle your old electronics – this is the event for you! This event features e-waste recycling, so please bring your old TV, computers, monitors and other electronics.

Entertainment for this event will feature musical performances by Naked Rhythm, the Quetzal Guerrero Band, VoKab Kompany, as well as other artists.

There will also be a farmer’s market with organic and locally grown produce, gardening training, face painting, drumming for kids, a photo-booth and much more.