Harbor City sits in a spot most people just drive through on the way somewhere else, sandwiched between the 110 Freeway and Pacific Coast Highway, with Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park taking up a big chunk of the neighborhood’s identity. It’s a mix of single-family homes on quiet residential blocks and a steady amount of
Wilmington is a working neighborhood in the truest sense, and that shapes almost every cleanout we run here. This is a port town, wedged between the refineries along Pacific Coast Highway and the shipping terminals down by the harbor, and the households we work with tend to reflect that. Bigger families, multigenerational homes, garages that
Baldwin Hills doesn’t look like most of the neighborhoods we work in, and that changes the job before we even pull up. Between La Cienega and Crenshaw, the streets climb fast, and homes up in the Dons and Baldwin Vista sit on lots with real elevation, pools, view decks, and driveways that were clearly designed
The Arts District is a neighborhood built out of old warehouses, and that history shapes almost every hauling job we do there. Converted lofts with exposed brick and freight elevators, live-work spaces that used to be manufacturing floors, and newer luxury buildings that popped up alongside them all come with their own quirks when something
Chinatown is one of those neighborhoods where the building came first and everything else got squeezed in around it. Walk down Broadway or Hill Street and you’ll see restaurants with apartments stacked above them, family shops that have been open since the 1940s with a storeroom in the back that hasn’t been sorted in just
Cypress Park sits in that stretch of Northeast LA where the hills roll down toward the river, and if you’ve lived here a while, you already know what that does to a garage. Half the homes along Cypress Avenue and Isabel Street were built in the 1920s and ’30s on lots that slope hard toward
