South Park Los Angeles

Update:Wabi Cycles,E L V Motors & The South Park Development Group is working to create new jobs and and shore up the local business tax base

Richard Snook, Doug Schwartz, Martin Cavanaugh Porter: Sustainability Pioneers

Richard Snook, Doug Schwartz, Martin Cavanaugh Porter, & Rasmus Lee: Sustainability Pioneers

-posted by MCP

Tomorrow ELV Motors and The South Park Development Group will begin a series of day-in, day-out bue sky sessions resulting in afoundational partnership to assemble and distribute zero-emission scooters to van in Los Angeles using D.T Los Angeles (South Park Los Angeles) as a ground zero hub for bleeding edge innovation.

What is on the table: The potential that E L V Motors will relocate their hq and plant to DT Los Angeles and that South Park Los Angeles will be used as an ideas incubator to prove the veracity and ingenuity of fully-electric scooters, vans, and cars.

Further that Wabi Cycles, an  easy-to-use, top quality, value-priced cycle company, founded by Richard Snook, a thirty year cycle industry veteran (www.wabicycles.com) whose cycles are assembled and hq in South Park Los Angeles will become an important driver motivating people to take short-distance trips on safe, aesthetically pleasing cycles.

Finally that local stake-holders like Rasmus Lee with PRE Brokerage (and Hygge Bakery-which, in alliance with The South Park Development Group will be using a fully electric, zero-emission delivery van for their bakery) are willing to think so far out of the box to get this city moving again, through new, innovative agreements.

These stories must be told and what is so motivating is that important forces are moving with the Rasmus Lee, Martin Cavanaugh Porter, The South Park Development Group, Wabi Cycles, and E L V Motors, to improve the quality of  life for the residents of Los Angeles.

ELV MOTORS-FORBES LEGACY VENTURES-THE SOUTH PARK DEVELOPMENT GROUP FORGE A POWER ALLIANCE TO CREATE TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE

south park sustainability shop

south park sustainability shop

ELV Motors and The South Park Development Group

-posted by Jeffrey Chung  C.I.O & Martin Cavanaugh Porter with The  South Park Development Group

Downtown Los Angeles is congested, clogged, and crammed full of heavily polluting vehicles and ELV Motors and the South Park Development Group are working to forge a powerful partnership to in three stages:

The first stage: A centralized retail environment stocked with zero-emission vehicles from base line scooters to fully electric-powered, zero emission delivery vans and trucks- this week a small delivery of base-line vehicles was delivered to The South Park Sustainability Shop (which will not begin sales of the vehicles until a fuller, more comprehensive line is available to show-however, when that occurs, even as construction occurs, The Shop will begin selling product. In stages a graphics-repair department will open on-site to provide The Shop’s members (“anyone who buys from The Shop is not a client, a number, or a dollar sign: they are members of The Shop-valued, considered, and cared for.”-Jeffrey Chung, Chief Information Officer FLV LLC-South Park Development Group). Of note: The Shop will offer financing to qualified buyers.

The second stage: Forging alliances with city-wide stake holders (using South Park L.A as the core best-practice ‘green’ platform to test ideas) to move hotels, whole complexes, and the city itself to lease or purchase ELV Zero-Emission vehicles, transforming our cities’ green scape. Paradigm Change is often used in relation to this kind of goal setting.

This is more than that: This is Transformational Change. ELV-Motors and The South Park Development Group, will build South Park Los Angeles into the hub-ground-zero of bleeding edge innovation, lively, elan-filled innovators, glowing and challenging the guardians of the status-quo, the keepers of the rusting, creaking gates.

Concurrently: Forbes Legacy Ventures will be working around the clock with ELV Motors to elevate the image, the branding, and the marketing of the entire package-from the vehicles, to the website, the direct mailers, the international email marketing campaigns, and the p.r campaigns.

The Third Stage: Using ‘lessons-learned’ in Down Town Los Angeles (painting a zero-emissions portrait in South Park Los Angeles) ELV Motors, Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC, and The South Park Development Group will take the systematized platform nationally and internationally (already there is growing interest in the ELV-FLV LLC model in South Korea).

Is this real? Is there heft and weight to this? It’s in motion already: Stage One has begun and the Principals of both companies- the c.e.o  of ELV Motors and the c.e.o of Forbes Legacy Ventures-The South Park Development Group are in discussion to tighten time-lines and engage in a series of blue-sky sessions, day after day in the upcoming week and month to follow to begin stage two and map out stage three.

the south park development group in partnership with elvmotors brings you: The South Park Sustainability Shop

Coming to South Park: The South Park Sustainability Shop

-posted by MCP
FLV-LLC/SPDG is pleased to announce that we will be opening The South Park Sustainability Shop (SPSS) in partnership with ELV Motors: bringing zero-emission, high powered, reliable, safe, and fun vehicles to Los Angeles. Good for the environment, good for Los Angeles, and good for you.
There will be a full service center and custom-graphic department dedicated to SPSS opening in tandem with the bricks-and-mortar space and the whole community will be able to witness this project from inception to completion in person and on live-video/pod-casts.
FLV-LLC/SPDG will undertake limited financing of the vehicles in order to get these terrific machines on the roads and in the hands of our beloved Angelenos. Much more to come on this subject as we are able to disclose information.
Bottom-Line: Fantastic, net-gain for South Park Los Angeles and Downtown. Much more in the days ahead: but, for all Los Angeles, and for the sustainability movement, this is an important advance.
Questions? Ideas? Please feel free to email us at: mcporter@flvllc.com.

follow-up to earlier post: e-road electric vehicles road test (zero carbon emissions)

 phenomenal, fast, and fun-whilst achieving true sustainability.

the e-road’s a winner and a vital component toward moving los angeles toward a better, cleaner, sustainable future.

Brett, Steff, and I were impressed and noted the multitude of  customization possibilities.

We’re excited-for consumers, for Los Angeles, and for the future of sustainability.

full disclosure: the writers of this post, the  team of Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC-South Park Development Group, are developing a relationship with E Road to explore future business endeavors- for info: mcporter@flvllc.com or btomich@flvllc.com

 

does virtual marketing work? seo-blogging-twitter-email mkt campaigns? -southparkla.com

The short answer is: Yes.

Bunch of ifs: If you do it consistently, if you do it well, if you enjoy it, and if you invest in it: time, creative energy, and to a degree, a financial investment (time is money).

Long answer: if you don’t do email marketing campaigns, if you don’t use blogs to support your product and services and website(s), and feeder websites, in this market, and going forward, you are out of the game, or at best, at the back of the pack.

It’s not that everyone is doing it: allot of organizations are-it’s that all the best-of-breed organizations are doing it, and doing it well, and doing it every day-and that takes discipline.

Let me give you some examples close to home: when we (southparkla.com) write relevant postings, well thought-out, with the right ratio of tagging, meta-tagging, and back end SEO tools, our readership holds or grows. When we blog too much about our own activities: South Park Development Group and Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC, we get static-our viral audience gets disgruntled, and the confidence level in the efficacy of our blog falls by degrees.

However, when we maintain our relevancy, southparkla.com readership grows-sometimes exponentially. When we write turgidly, and keep our topics on point, when are blog is in flow with our audience, readership grows.

When southparkla.com uses twitter and engages in micro-email mkt campaigns to support our blog, or our primary site: www.flvllc.com, and we do it with a degree of verve, readership has doubled, tripled, quadripled.

What does this all mean? If you have a product or service to offer, the most effective way to make sure you are noticed consistently and positively, is to develop a powerful, year in, year out, virtual marketing campaign.

This all presupposes that you have been strongly branded and that your product or service is very good and these suppositions are the back bone to insuring that your virtual campaign has legs.

Put another way: you can’t build a  powerful,structural branding and marketing campaign on a sub-par product and expect it to do well.

It will be noticed because of the campaign but counter-marketing forces (word-of-mouth etc…) will create a tipping-point at which point it becomes better to freeze on marketing and go back to the drawing board.

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the south park development group: projects in the pipeline-bringing value, upping the ante

 

  • health and wellness centre (beyond health and wellness…revival)
  • farmers’ mkt
  • private, high value, value priced business incubator
  • artisan-handcrafted manufacturing: the south park workshop
  • fully certified organic furnishings boutique
  • high-end clothing boutique
  • elixir bar
  • internally developed projects
  • bike shop

no one is putting forth the notion that all of the above is coming to fruition: what the south park development group is bringing to the table is vigor and vitality-every effort is being made to add to the equation.

my son will be born in october and raised in south park.

and, all the latest demographics point to the fact that over the next seven years, south park will become a mix of families, ethnicity’s, and will not look or feel like the original vision had intended it to look like. yes: wealthy, upscale, educated….now, more and more, family oriented, ethnic-based,, culturally sophisticated, liberal, and worldly. in our opinion: all to the good.

let’s all look at this reality and, realistically make decisions regrading mix based on facts, trends, and demographics.

it will be fun: this neighborhood will come alive, and our children, together, will benefit with this differently visioned southpark.

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beyond our glittering towers….

posted by: martin cavanaugh porter III

we must decide to open our eyes and see that all about is suffering and that what is needed is love and compassion. south park’s towers of glass and steel glitter and gleam against the sun and glisten and glimmer against the moon.

our streets-i live in southpark l.a with my wife and unborn child, are clean and policed. we are shielded to the west by LA Live but to the east of us, to the south of us, and to the north of us, hovers pockets of poverty and harm where illness and degradation are more the norm than the exception.

one does not know the answer to these great forever unresolved issues. certainly, i don’t.

but i do know small gestures of kindness, smiles and efforts at good will go toward all those about us are a start.

next, south park residents must use our vast pool of collective knowledge and technological know-how to advance the hopes of those neighborhoods that surround us.

to ignore the obvious, to huddle in our ‘live-work’ spaces, to bind ourselves to our t.v’s and computers will not do: it is not a life lived.

it is time for us to set a new path in south park: to beome l.a’s leader in two forms of high level entrepreneurship: business and social justice.

they are intertwined.

it is the south park development group’s controlling mission to make downtown south park l.a the hub of L.A innovation in business through the south park business incubator and through our community efforts to work together in a great effort on behalf of those who suffer around us to lessen suffering: at least to do no harm.

we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars- Oscar Wilde
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rfk: binding the wounds, dedicating ourselves to justice: please see nxt post

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one step closer to south park artisanship, bringing back handcrafted, custom accessories-candles

EYD Candles

EYD Candles

posted by: martin cavanaugh porter III, brett h tomich with the south park development group

an internationally renowned designer of handcrafted, fine, highly artisan candles is relocating to South Park L.A. her field of endeavor has been international: dubai, singapore, korea, india, china, and all throughout europe.

though EYD Candles is a very successful B2B business, the designer, will be developing a local artisan workshop. we can announce with pleasure that she has comitted to developing a local artisan workshop in down town south park l.a- employing the mentor-apprentice model: upholstery, furnishings, fabrics, repairs, and one-of-a-kind designs.

this is a vitalizing commitment, not made lightly, and is one peice of the puzzle, bringing life and neighborhood to South Park.

for B2B info on this phenomenal line of candles, pls call 213 550 4460.

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incremental steps toward better stewardship of our enviornment

Posted in Uncategorized by southparkla on May 18, 2009
going green

going green

posted by mcpIII + bht

its not much: but it’s a start.

the south park development group and forbes legacy ventures llc, two local south park l.a biz-dev, vc, branding groups have made a decision to reuse all their first-use paper, collate it and rebind it into note-pads. 

it’s a step better than the recycle bin: the used paper takes on a second life, a second purpose, and then off to the blue bin.

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