Kai Rizdahl
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Podcast Appearances
You're still doing your thing, though, right?
Altogether, Greenline spent around $500,000 to buy the lot.
That's $500,000 that Chalene's eventually going to have to pay back.
She's raised more than $100,000 of that through GoFundMe.
And in the meanwhile, she's teaching about a dozen classes a week online and at a park in Altadena, which has basically become her temporary location until she can get back in her studio.
When you think about what this place can be, what are you thinking about?
Not just the building, but about what it's going to do.
Was there ever a doubt in your mind that you were going to do this?
That you were going to rebuild it and start all over again?
And we should say you've had loss, right?
I mean, not just this place, but you're out of your home and you're living in an apartment.
What's next hasn't changed in the past year.
Businesses in this town need to come back so that the people can come back.
Businesses like Chalene's and Joey Galloway's and Jimmy Orlandini's.
That is how Altadena is going to recover.
Over on our morning show, David Boncaccio has been covering the residential recovery from the Eaton Fire, people on his block looking to rebuild like he is, but also people who want and need to remediate the toxic residue.
Chromium, manganese, lithium.
I may be missing a heavy metal in there somewhere.