Article: Progress could spell end to landmark bakery.(Lucia Properties to acquire Holland Dutch Bakery in Los Angeles, California)

Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakery, the Glassell Park landmark with the distinctive Flemish gables and distinctive chimneys, may soon become home to two-by-fours and fast-food burgers rather than the bear claws and cinnamon rolls of days gone by.

Los Angeles-based Lucia Properties has agreed to purchase the seven-acre site from long-time owner William Zimmerman for $8 million, with plans to raze what was once dubbed the "Taj Mahal of bakeries" and then build a HomeBase and Burger King in its place.

The developer and landowner call the old bakery at Fletcher Drive and San Fernando Boulevard an eyesore, noting that the three-story structure is plastered ...

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