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About Uptown Whittier Association

Uptown is a commercial and residential community, the boundries for the uptown area is Hadley to the north Penn to the south, Friends to the east, Milton on the west. Uptown is an eclectic, vibrant, business, entertainment, and constantly changing area. Restaurants, Hotels, large and small, thrive in Uptown, along with an old vintage movie theater, professional offices, retail stores, coffee shops.

Today it is a nonprofit trade association, which promotes Uptown as a safe, prosperous, accessible, attractive, well-maintained and environmentally responsible commercial and residential area. It also exists to improve the economic stability and vitality of Uptown and to celebrate and sustain its unique spirit and sense of community. The Association welcomes diversity of all kinds and advocates the greater benefit of the entire Uptown community. Any commercial interest within the geographic boundaries can become a merrmber of the Uptown Association.

The City of Whittier is located in LosAngeles County, about 12 miles southeast of the City of Los Angeles. Established as a community by Quakers in 1887,Whittier was incorporated as a city in1898. Today it encompasses 14.8 square miles and has an estimated population of 87,000 persons. Despite the tumultuous changes in the region over the last hundred-plus years, Whittier continues to be a tight-knit community.

Uptown Whittier is a pedestrian-scaled,mixed-use neighborhood that is laid out as a square, with sides one-quarter mile in length. With its center found at the intersection of Greenleaf and Philadelphia Streets, Uptown is bounded by Hadley Street to the north, Painter Avenue to the east, Penn Street to the south, and Pickering Avenue to the west. Uptown is comprised of relatively short blocks and tree-lined, two-lane streets that provide convenient curbside parking.

Uptown is filled with small specialty retail shops and personal services owned by local residents; a number of local restaurants; an independently-operated movie theater;and a few national franchise operators such as the Radisson Hotel, RiteAid Pharmacy, Starbucks, and CoffeeBean/Tea Leaf. There are also a scattering of multifamily residences, including a number of affordable senior residential complexes such as the restored Hoover Hotel. A number of churches and other important civic institutions, including Whittier College, City Hall, CountyCourthouse, City Library, and historic Central Park are located within or immediately adjacent to Uptown.

Uptown has “good bones”. The over-all block, street, and building types in Uptown continue to provide the critical elements for sustaining a pedestrian friendly, “Main Street” small town experience. The separation of the community from regional freeways and other large scale development helps to preserve the village feel of the Uptown and adjacent residential neighborhoods. Local job centers in nearby Santa Fe Springs, City of Commerce, and downtown Los Angeles makes it a desirable residential locationfor working commuters. The expansion of Whittier Presbyterian Hospital is underway; current plans callfor the addition of a new five-story medical facility. The 73-acre site that formerly served as the location for the Fred C.Nelles Youth Detention Center is pro-posed to be redeveloped with new retail and residential uses. Both projects are located at the primary gateway toUptown. Employment at these two developments should be attracted to residential opportunities created on sites in the Uptown area. Whittier College is adjacent to Uptown and is home to 1,200 students and a Performing Arts Center. Given that the students are encouraged to live at the campus, there should be opportunities to develop commercial uses in Uptown that serve the College and help to more fully integrate the “town and gown.”

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