October 2021: Walker’s Cafe closes without notice

December 2022: Community-led landmark nomination for Walker’s Cafe is submitted to the City of LA
20 January 2022: 1st City of LA Cultural Heritage Commission hearing for landmark status for Walker’s Cafe (unanimous YES) | YouTube recording of hearing

8 March 2022: First Zoom meeting between Friends of Walkers Cafe and Prospect Group, after Prospect reached out as interested buyers

17 March 2022: 2nd City of LA Cultural Heritage Commission hearing for landmark status for Walker’s Cafe (unanimous YES) | YouTube recording of hearing

March 2022 : Prospect Group buys Walker’s Cafe
March 2022: We connect Prospect Group with half a dozen potential operators (restaurateurs from San Pedro and beyond)
May-August 2022: Unpermitted construction and demolition by Prospect Group 
25 May 2022: Zoom meeting we set up between Prospect Group, CD15 and the City’s Office of Historic Resources
15 June 2022: Zoom meeting we set up between Prospect Group and a top land use consultant regarding zoning/CUP 
30 June 2022: LADBS inspector Andrew Beeli issues Stop Work order 
13 July 2022: Email from Inspector Beeli about illegal work and being refused entry by representatives of Prospect Group | see email
18 July 2022: Concerned restaurateur reaches out to City officials and Friends of Walker’s Cafe after being quoted astronomically high rent by Prospect Group. What is going on?! | see email

16 August 2022: City of LA Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee hearing for landmark status for Walker’s Cafe (unanimous YES) 
August 2022: Walker’s Cafe officially becomes a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
29 August 2022: LADBS inspector Andrew Beeli posts Order to Comply on the property

(crickets for a year…and then…)

23 June 2023: Furious email from LADBS Inspector Paul Becker to other City officials: Prospect Group has ignored Order to Comply for almost a year | see email
17 August 2023: Prospect Group presents new plans for large housing development to Cultural Heritage Commission | link to their PowerPoint presentation, meeting audio
4 October 2023: Prospect Group presents plans to Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council for the first time | meeting audio
27 October 2023 | Prospect Group submit plans to the City’s Department of Planning with no substantial changes

8 March 2025 | Prospect Group presents unchanged plans to Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council at subcommittee meeting. Whistleblower Damian Sullivan shows up in public comment saying: Prospect Group’s effort to reopen Walker’s Cafe is disingenuous. Multiple interested restaurateurs were stonewalled | see video