{"id": "n-a00169e47d", "slug": "pico-rivera-los-angeles-assembly", "type": "industrial", "name": "Los Angeles Assembly", "aka": [], "city": "Pico Rivera", "county": "Los Angeles County", "state": "CA", "country": "US", "census_division": 9, "lat": 33.983, "lon": -118.1004, "geocode_method": "wikipedia", "address": null, "metro": null, "original_use": "Ford Motor Company assembly plant", "year_opened": null, "year_closed": null, "acres": null, "gla_sqft": null, "stores_peak": null, "levels": null, "original_developer": null, "original_architect": null, "before_notes": "Draft from Wikipedia, model-extracted, unreviewed: The Los Angeles Assembly plant, a Ford factory operating from 1957 to 1980, was demolished in 2001 and replaced by the Pico Rivera Town Center shopping center.", "strategy": ["redevelop"], "new_use": ["retail"], "share_retrofit": null, "status": "demolished", "year_retrofit": null, "developer": null, "architect": null, "after_notes": "Pico Rivera Town Center", "narrative": "Los Angeles Assembly was an American Ford Motor Company assembly plant located at 8820 Washington Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard, in Pico Rivera, southeastern Los Angeles County, California.\n\n\n== Ford plant ==\nKnown as Los Angeles Plant #2, the Pico Rivera facility started operations in early August 1957 with the production of 1958 Edsel Corsair and Citation hardtop models. Due to the paint booths not being ready, early Edsel bodies were welded together at the new Los Angeles #2 plant and then trucked to the old Maywood, Los Angeles #1 plant where they could be painted. 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Peer comparisons show lower score than similar CA redevelopments (e.g., La Mirada Mall, 13km away, score 5.5).", "for_a_planner": ["High traffic volume (32k ADT) supports retail viability.", "Housing market stable (ZHVI +0.4% YoY)."], "for_a_developer": ["Site is fully redeveloped; no current vacant land.", "Median rent $1,893 aligns with regional retail market (per record)."], "risks_and_unknowns": ["No demolition date or redevelopment timeline provided.", "County shrinkage (-2.5%) noted but not contextualized."], "data_quality": "partial", "one_line": "Demolished Ford plant redeveloped as retail (Pico Rivera Town Center); high-traffic site with stable housing market but lower score than peer redevelopments.", "model": "qwen3-30b-a3b-64k:latest", "machine": "Dell 5820 RTX 3090 (Ollama, qwen3-30b-a3b)", "record_sha1": "68f5b912c579"}, "cluster": {"within_10km": [{"id": "n-04785a2cd8", "name": "YASH La Casa Market", "city": "Los Angeles", "status": "built", "km": 9.9}], "count_10km": 1, 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