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California State University, Northridge – located to the east of Reseda Boulevard between Nordhoff Street and Halsted Street, Cal State Northridge was founded in 1954 and is a four-year university in the Cal State system with 34,000 students, over 4,000 faculty and staff, sited on a 356-hectare (3.56 km 2) campus in the San Fernando Valley.
In 1979 Northridge Hospital and Valley Hospital in Van Nuys created a joint parent company – HealthWest. HealthWest expanded to become a multi-hospital nonprofit. [ 2 ] In 1988, HealthWest merged with the Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California, the parent company of California Hospital Medical Center , to form UniHealth. [ 3 ]
The area now known as Reseda was inhabited by Native Americans of the Tongva tribe who lived close to the Los Angeles River. [1]In 1909 the Suburban Homes Company, a syndicate led by H. J. Whitley, general manager of the Board of Control, Harry Chandler, H.G. Otis, M.H. Sherman and O.F. Brandt purchased 48,000 acres of the Farming and Milling Company for $2,500,000. [2]
Reseda Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of the community, was paved in 1930. [18] In 1938, the community's name was changed to the more popular Northridge Village at the suggestion of local resident and director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles Carl Denzel; it would later be shortened to just Northridge. [18] [19]
Porter Ranch community started as a housing tract in the community of Northridge. This was along San Fernando Mission Blvd west of Reseda Blvd circa 1960–1963. No homes were north of Rinaldi except for a few dozen above "the ridge", where there was a 7/11 which was a destination for determined kids who like to hike or ride bikes up Tampa.
Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway. Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park is a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) park in the Santa Monica Mountains, with its trailhead at the southern terminus of Reseda Boulevard in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California.
Reseda station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. [4] It is named after adjacent Reseda Boulevard , which travels north–south and crosses the east–west busway route.
Lake Balboa is flanked on the north by Northridge, on the east by Van Nuys, on the south by the Sepulveda Basin and on the west by Reseda. [3] Its street and other boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Balboa Place, the Van Nuys Airport, Hayvenhurst Avenue and Odessa Avenue on the east, Victory Boulevard on the south and White Oak Avenue on the west.