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December 31, 2009

SYCAMORE SQUARE ASSOCIATION HAS NEW LEADER

Suzan Filipek

ADMINISTRATOR, president, wife and mom, Ann Eggleston.

New president of the Sycamore Square Neighborhood Association president is Ann Astrachan Eggleston.

“It’s a neighborhood association not a Homeowners’ and open to all who live, work or own property in the neighborhood,” said the New England-area native.

The 800-member group’s focus as of late has been on BRE Properties’ seven-story, 482-unit block-size development from Wilshire to Eighth St. and La Brea Ave. to Sycamore.

She plans to keep a steady watch on the project, since it was approved by City Council last month, including traffic mitigation, setbacks and landscape. “We want to hold the developer to what he said he would do,” she said.

Eggleston was voted in during the group’s annual meeting in August. She also continues as treasurer, which she began the previous year, her first on the board. Fran Shuster is vice-president and secretary. The nascent Association is still growing, explains Ann of its two-officer, seven-member board.

She moved to Sycamore Square in 1999 from Ogden Dr. near the Farmers Market with husband Jeff Eggleston, a writer/producer, and their two children, Isabel 10, and Owen, who is just shy of 7. The youngsters attend Oakwood School, where she is director of development.

Her career spans a long tenure as fundraiser for arts and educational institutions, which started when she was a sophomore at Tufts University majoring in sociology and art studies.

She worked at the Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now known as Orange County Museum of Art) and the Long Beach Museum of Art.

She entered the independent school arena as associate director of development at Marlborough from 1995 to 2000. She was executive director of development at KUSC Classical 91.5 from 2000 to 2003. She served on the Hollywood School House Parents’ Council and as an interviewer for the Tufts Alumni Admissions Program.

Sycamore Square is between Citrus and La Brea, Wilshire and Olympic. It will be easier to spot soon, said Ann, who lives on Orange Dr. “We have completed a petition in order to get area markers for the neighborhood.”

“A “Chalk & Talk” informal gathering on different blocks throughout the neighborhood recently started “to bring out neighbors to socialize and get to know each other while kids can play (with chalk).”

The next Chalk & Talk will be in February on Valentine’s Day weekend on the 800 S. block of Citrus. Art projects, cookie decorating for kids, and snacks for kids and adults alike, are among proposals on the schedule, she said.

How does she do it all? “It’s organization and having a supporting husband, family and friends,” she says.

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