Pa Kua Healing and Martial Arts, on Magnolia Blvd at Laurel Canyon in the Valley Village center, gets a new mural for a sign.

The studio is a Favorite Local Business, creating for our community a stylish, warm and pedestrian-friendly street interface, which is a clue to their humanistic body-friendly values.  Pa Kua adapted our walkable village center creatively, suiting a new era’s pedestrian-ready needs. They doubled down on the LA City plan to plant trees on merchants’ rows, and at their own expense Pa Kua has clustered Roman cypress into their plot – triple kudos for having chosen trees that are at once traditional for Valley Village, provide excellent shade and vertical wind screening, yet don’t hog the streets or block the signage.

The mural is a welcome addition to Valley Village. I love the bold and harmonious Asian colors, which just pop in our golden southern-exposed sunshine.