ARTESIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 24, 2025--
City Ventures, California’s leading builder of solar-powered, ecologically responsible homes, has announced the grand opening of Eginhouse, its highly awaited live/work townhome community in Artesia, California. Fully furnished model homes are set to unveil this weekend, offering public tours to the community.
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Located within the boundaries of the renowned ABC Unified School District, the innovative neighborhood features 59 modern, three-story townhomes––including 22 live/work units––plus 4,544 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. A recent 2024 survey by the National Association of Home Builders, “What Home Buyers Really Want", identified homebuyers' top essential or desirable community features, and "living near retail space" topped the chart at number one.
“Eginhouse introduces homeowners to a whole new way of living,” said Natasha Zabaneh, President of City Ventures. “Here, retail and commercial space is built right in, fostering a small-town feel with all the conveniences of city living. In addition to being steps away from future retailers, buyers will appreciate access to local parks, a top-rated public school system, public transit options, shopping, freeways, and Artesia's iconic melting pot of cultural restaurants and boutiques. Cerritos College is also just a short distance away.”
At Eginhouse, three intelligently designed floorplans, built for maximum flow and space, range from approximately 1,342 to 1,899 square feet with three bedrooms and up to three-and-a-half baths. Strikingly designed and thoughtfully constructed to reduce energy, lower costs, and enhance everyday comforts, every residence features an impressive list of smart technologies. Homeowners can expect included features like owned solar panels, learning thermostats, water-saving fixtures, dual-glazed windows, all-electric appliances, and more. Beautiful, well-appointed kitchens prioritize style and functionality with popular finishes like quartz or granite countertops, flat-panel cabinets with soft-closing drawers and doors, LG stainless steel appliances, and water filtration systems conveniently located at the kitchen sink. Attached two-car garages are standard, along with keyless entry.
“The city of Artesia is undergoing an exciting renaissance, and we are thrilled to be part of its redevelopment to meet the evolving needs of both residents and businesses,” said Zabaneh. “Of note, Eginhouse is the only live/work project in the northern end of town––a tucked-away yet perfectly convenient location served by the highly regarded ABC Unified School District and situated near every amenity you could ask for. This is truly a one-of-a-kind community––there’s nothing else out there quite like it.”
Prospective buyers are invited to come tour the fully furnished model homes at Eginhouse this weekend at 11716 Arkansas St., Artesia CA 90701. For more information, including sales office hours, visit www.NewHomesArtesia.com, call or text 562-713-7029, or email Eginhouse@CityVentures.com. You can also follow City Ventures on social media on Facebook ( @cityventures ), Instagram ( @city_venutures ) and YouTube ( @cityventures ).
About City Ventures
City Ventures, California’s leading homebuilder, focuses on “Building It Forward” by repositioning underutilized real estate into residential housing in supply-constrained coastal urban infill areas and high-demand suburban locations. To date, the builder has constructed 5,000 townhomes, condominiums, lofts, mixed-use, live-work, and single-family detached homes throughout Southern and Northern California. City Ventures was named 2023 Builder of the Year by national magazine Builder & Developer and is celebrating 15 years of homebuilding this year. Based in San Francisco and Irvine, City Ventures currently owns and controls over 8,000 lots in California. For more information, please visit www.cityventures.com/.
Eginhouse is a brand new neighborhood in Artesia built by City Ventures; the innovative community features 59 modern, three-story townhomes––including 22 live/work units––plus 4,544 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. (Photo: Business Wire)
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has turned the Arctic island of Greenland into a geopolitical hotspot with his demands to own it and suggestions that the U.S. could take it by force.
The island is a semiautonomous region of Denmark, and Denmark's foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting at the White House that a “ fundamental disagreement ” remains with Trump over the island.
The crisis is dominating the lives of Greenlanders and "people are not sleeping, children are afraid, and it just fills everything these days. And we can’t really understand it,” Naaja Nathanielsen, a Greenlandic minister said at a meeting with lawmakers in Britain’s Parliament this week.
Here's a look at what Greenlanders have been saying:
Trump has dismissed Denmark’s defenses in Greenland, suggesting it’s “two dog sleds.”
By saying that, Trump is “undermining us as a people,” Mari Laursen told AP.
Laursen said she used to work on a fishing trawler but is now studying law. She approached AP to say she thought previous examples of cooperation between Greenlanders and Americans are “often overlooked when Trump talks about dog sleds.”
She said during World War II, Greenlandic hunters on their dog sleds worked in conjunction with the U.S. military to detect Nazi German forces on the island.
“The Arctic climate and environment is so different from maybe what they (Americans) are used to with the warships and helicopters and tanks. A dog sled is more efficient. It can go where no warship and helicopter can go,” Laursen said.
Trump has repeatedly claimed Russian and Chinese ships are swarming the seas around Greenland. Plenty of Greenlanders who spoke to AP dismissed that claim.
“I think he (Trump) should mind his own business,” said Lars Vintner, a heating engineer.
“What's he going to do with Greenland? He speaks of Russians and Chinese and everything in Greenlandic waters or in our country. We are only 57,000 people. The only Chinese I see is when I go to the fast food market. And every summer we go sailing and we go hunting and I never saw Russian or Chinese ships here in Greenland,” he said.
Down at Nuuk's small harbor, Gerth Josefsen spoke to AP as he attached small fish as bait to his lines. He said, “I don't see them (the ships)” and said he had only seen “a Russian fishing boat ten years ago.”
Maya Martinsen, 21, a shop worker, told AP she doesn't believe Trump wants Greenland to enhance America's security.
“I know it’s not national security. I think it’s for the oils and minerals that we have that are untouched,” she said, suggesting the Americans are treating her home like a “business trade.”
She said she thought it was good that American, Greenlandic and Danish officials met in the White House Wednesday and said she believes that “the Danish and Greenlandic people are mostly on the same side,” despite some Greenlanders wanting independence.
“It is nerve-wrecking, that the Americans aren’t changing their mind,” she said, adding that she welcomed the news that Denmark and its allies would be sending troops to Greenland because “it’s important that the people we work closest with, that they send support.”
Tuuta Mikaelsen, a 22-year-old student, told AP that she hopes the U.S. got the message from Danish and Greenlandic officials to “back off.”
She said she didn't want to join the United States because in Greenland “there are laws and stuff, and health insurance .. .we can go to the doctors and nurses ... we don’t have to pay anything,” she said adding "I don’t want the U.S. to take that away from us.”
In Greenland's parliament, Juno Berthelsen, MP for the Naleraq opposition party that campaigns for independence in the Greenlandic parliament told AP that he has done multiple media interviews every day for the last two weeks.
When asked by AP what he would say to Trump and Vice President JD Vance if he had the chance, Berthelsen said:
“I would tell them, of course, that — as we’ve seen — a lot of Republicans as well as Democrats are not in favor of having such an aggressive rhetoric and talk about military intervention, invasion. So we would tell them to move beyond that and continue this diplomatic dialogue and making sure that the Greenlandic people are the ones who are at the very center of this conversation.”
“It is our country,” he said. “Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people.”
Kwiyeon Ha and Evgeniy Maloletka contributed to this report.
FILE - A woman pushes a stroller with her children in Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
Military vessel HDMS Knud Rasmussen of the Royal Danish Navy patrols near Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Juno Berthelsen, MP for the Naleraq opposition party that campaigns for independence in the Greenlandic parliament poses for photo at his office in Nuuk, Greenland, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Fisherman Gerth Josefsen prepares fishing lines at the harbour of Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
A woman walks on a street past a Greenlandic national flag in Nuuk, Greenland, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
