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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Van Nuys
| Van Nuys is named
after the man who founded the San Fernando Homstead Association in 1869, a
group that purchased much of land that now makes up the community, named Isaac
Van Nuys. Isaac also built the first wood frame house in the San Fernando
Valley in 1872. Van Nuys is in the heart of the San Fernando Valley and home to
about 100,000 people; the main thoroughfare, Van Nuys Boulevard, is noted for
its car dealerships. It also functions similar to a "county seat" for
the Valley, with its Government Center (Erwin Street Mall) containing a branch
of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Van Nuys police station, and the Van
Nuys offices for Los Angeles City Hall, Van Nuys State Office Building and a
branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. Van Nuys used to be the home for a
major manufacturing plant for Chevrolet. When the plant was dismantled the site
was converted into a shopping mall called The Plant. Like many central Valley
neighborhoods, Van Nuys was a white, middle-class neighborhood as late as the
1970s, but the demographics of the area changed considerably due to white
flight. It is now a predominantly Latino neighborhood. In late 2004, the San
Fernando Valley's first historic district was proposed for an area of early
20th Century bungalows north of Victory between Van Nuys Boulevard and Kester. |
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