There's something I've always believed about Pacific Palisades: you can tell how a community is doing by looking at its tables. Not the real estate. Not the permit counts. The tables — the ones at the farmers market, at the coffee shop on the corner, at the restaurant where you've had the same Sunday reservation for years. When those fill up, something real is happening, and right now? Tables are starting to fill back up.
The biggest news: Nancy Silverton is coming to the Village.
If you know LA food, you know this name. Michelin-starred Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, Chi Spacca in Hancock Park — Nancy Silverton doesn't open restaurants casually. She's anchoring the reopened Palisades Village with a brand-new concept called Spacca Tutto, designed by New York firm Avroko, covering 3,500 square feet with a large-scale patio, a bar, and a grand piano. The doors are targeted for late summer 2026
Palisades Village itself is coming back — and it's going to be better.
Palisades Village is slated to reopen in 2026, with early to mid-year targeted for its return, featuring a renewed focus on community-centered spaces. Developer Rick Caruso has committed a $50 million investment toward reconstruction and new amenities those of us who grew up here, Palisades Village wasn't just a shopping center. It was the town square. It was where you grabbed coffee and ran into three people you knew before you even got to the door. It was where kids played in the park while parents caught up. A full reconstruction of the public park inside the village is underway, and once completed it will again serve as a welcoming gathering space for families. Caruso is also upgrading the surrounding streetscapes — new sidewalks, new landscaping. They're not just rebuilding what was there. They're building something worth coming back to.
And elysewalker is returning too. The luxury fashion retailer, a cornerstone of the Palisades retail scene, will relocate and reopen its flagship store within the revamped Village. If you've shopped there, you know it's more than a boutique — it's a gathering place in its own right.
The community has been showing up all spring.
While the big anchors are getting ready for their grand returns, the community has been quietly, steadily rebuilding its social fabric in the meantime. The Palisades Recovery Coalition has been hosting food truck nights and temporary recreation offerings through its Come Back Club Palirecovery keeping neighbors connected while the more permanent things get rebuilt around them.
The Community Renewal Celebration back in March brought the neighborhood together for an afternoon of music, food trucks, art, and connection, closing with a lantern ceremony at sunset. That's the kind of thing you can't manufacture. That's just neighbors choosing each other.
And this month, there's an Earth Day cleanup on April 25th — organized alongside the Village School — for anyone who wants to show up, get their hands dirty, and help restore the beauty of our shared spaces. That's as Palisades as it gets.
What I keep telling people.
When clients ask me about the Palisades — whether to buy, whether to hold, whether to rebuild — I always come back to the same thing: this neighborhood has never been just real estate. It's been a community. And community is exactly what's being rebuilt right now, one table, one restaurant, one gathering at a time.
Nancy Silverton chose this neighborhood to plant her next flag. Rick Caruso is putting $50 million back into this block. Your neighbors are showing up to cleanup days and food truck nights, and lantern ceremonies.
That's not a neighborhood in decline. That's a neighborhood that knows who it is.
I grew up here. I know what this place feels like when it's fully alive. We're getting back there. And honestly? I think it's going to be even better.
