Photo courtesy of: San Fernando Valley Issues Digital Library
Publisher: California State University, Northridge. University Library.

In 1955, civic leaders and the Reseda Chamber of Commerce embarked on what seemed at the time quite progressive: an enormous road widening. Yet 50 years later Reseda Boulevard is still a shabby, ugly, broken down street. The good thing is that cheap restaurants, bicycle stores, taco stands, vacuum repair outlets and pawn shops are also useful to earning a living.

Reseda once was the gateway for middle class families to buy a starter home and eventually move upwards and onwards. Now the starter home is half a million dollars. But Reseda Bouleveard looks like the main drag of a depressed area. Where are the leaders, the homeowners, the architects, the dreamers, the Mayor and the City Council who could turn this underutilized and wretched boulevard into a beautiful and aesthetic urban experience?

What will Reseda Boulevard look like in 2055?