THE CONTEXT
Walker’s Cafe was abruptly shuttered by its previous absentee owners in October 2021. In summer 2022, it became an official Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument thanks to a major grassroots campaign with more than three thousand supporters.
But months before the landmark designation was finalized, it was bought off-market for just $650,000 by Prospect Group, a property developer based in Burbank specialized in fixing and flipping residential properties.
Almost two years later, they unveiled their plans for a large mansion + ADU right behind the shuttered cafe. As they stand, these plans would mean the death of Walker’s Cafe.
WHY WE’RE WORRIED
1. Prospect Group hasn’t been honest with the community.
For years now, they’ve been pushing interested cafe operators away. Watch this powerful testimony from Damian Sullivan at the March 8th, 2025 Neighborhood Council subcommittee meeting:
2. Walker’s Cafe is being completely boxed in by the proposed development.
Restaurant consultants who have reviewed the plans with us agree: Prospect Group seems to be mothballing the cafe.
There is no cafe operator involved, no restaurant consultants, no roadmap for reopening. The current plans leave no space for the facilities a restaurant needs to survive in today’s market.
All that space is being sacrificed to build a giant house.
3. Prospect Group will sell the house, putting the cafe’s future at risk.
Prospect Group said they plan to sell the house in the back. This raises questions that still haven’t been answered: Will the owner of the house own Walker’s too? Who will be the landlord of the cafe?
Given their track record, we’re concerned that Prospect Group may actually be trying to get permits for a large oceanside house so they can flip the lot for a big profit while Walker’s stays shuttered.
San Pedro – and Walker’s – deserves better.
SAVE WALKER'S CAFE 
