Platinum Triangle, Los Angeles
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The Platinum Triangle is an informal name for three adjacent neighborhoods in the Los Angeles Westside area. It includes Beverly Hills, which is its own city within Los Angeles County, along with two Los Angeles city neighborhoods, Bel Air and Holmby Hills.{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-05/bel-air-lunch-trucks|title=She feeds Bel-Air's mega-mansion boom. But lunch is a battlefield|date=2019-11-05|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|first=Sonja |last=Sharp|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06|quote=The so-called Platinum Triangle of Bel-Air, Holmby Hills and Beverly Hills...}} The "Platinum Triangle" designation refers to the affluence of the three neighborhoods and their multi-million dollar homes. The area is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.{{cite news |last=Olmsted |first=Larry |date=May 25, 2010 |title=Second homes: High luxury has a high price in Beverly Hills |work=USA Today |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2010-05-20-beverly-hills-california_N.htm |accessdate=14 November 2013}}
In popular culture
A 2011 book called Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles, by Michael Gross, describes the social history of the Platinum Triangle.{{cite news|url=http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Gross-returns-with-another-juicy-rich-and-famous-2284287.php|title=Gross returns with another juicy rich and famous real estate saga|last=Meyers|first=Joe|date=November 23, 2011|work=Connecticut Post|accessdate=14 November 2013}}
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Category:Neighborhoods in Los Angeles
Category:Beverly Hills, California
Category:Holmby Hills, Los Angeles
Category:Westside (Los Angeles County)
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