An Evening With the Mayor, Held at The Historic Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills

The Honorable Berry Brucker delivered the Mayor's formal State of the City address, at the beautiful historic Greystone Mansion. The weather was a perfect 80°/ 66°°F°C.



Oh, the sky was so blue and there were these beautiful fluffy white clouds sprinkled intermittently, with the sun shining so warm, gently kissing our faces, leaving everyone with a sense of being in the right place at the right time.



The Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce had plenty of Ambassadors and Staff members on hand, as well as Mayor Brucker and his lovely wife and daughter, greeting everyone and making sure that everyone felt at home, and knew that this was about the community.



After Mayor Brucker's State of the City address, which covered the overall success of the City of Beverly Hills(BH), and the need for the residents of BH, as well as the businesses, to support the leadership of BH.



To name a few of the topics that Mayor Brucker covered; the current trends of the tourists that visit the City of Beverly Hills and the steady hotel occupancy rate, the fine dining experience that people from all over the Globe are chatting about, the beautiful Wallis Annenberg Center for Performing Arts that is currently under construction.



Mayor Brucker also discussed the never ending dilemma of time limits on parking at the various lots (currently the City of Beverly Hills has 2 hours of free parking throughout the City) located North and South of Wilshire Blvd. Lord, I cannot tell you how many times Tom Blumenthal, CEO of GEARYS Beverly Hills, and I have debated (parking in Beverly Hills) this topic over the years!



During the Q & A that followed the State of the City address, there were a few people that had questions for Mayor Brucker, and made statements regarding what the City of Beverly Hills truly needs. Barbara Larzaroff, Co-Founder of Spago Beverly Hills, looking oh so eloquent and beautiful, used the short tale written by Hans Christian Andersen - "The Emperor's New Clothes" - as an example to bring home a very poignant fact; the owners of the properties in BH, who for what ever reason, no longer have clients leasing their properties, where it is quite obvious that these various stores have closed, need to step up their game and at least dress up the store front windows so that tourist don't see such abandoned looking properties as they walk through the City of Beverly Hills. Good point, Barbara Lazaroff!..



It is truly a place that one should visit in a lifetime. If you haven't had a chance to visit Greystone Mansion - what's stopping you? We all welcome you!

Greystone Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills 90210



Smooches, Carla

P.S. Thank you, TJB!