DISQUS

Cory · 7 months ago

Lisa Hernandez is such an inspiration for her many efforts to create a more green America and bring together the community in the East Village. The Depot is an inspiring place with so many ideas for projects just waiting to happen. Folks, this is a really special place and I hope that you will all go check it out. Find some inspiration for your next art project or find some inspiration in what Lisa Hernandez is doing. There is something for everyone at The Depot. We really need to support businesses like these in Long Beach! See you at The Depot!!

Theresa · 7 months ago

Great Article! Thanks for writing about the most original shop in L.B.! Wake up People and check this place out! My kids like the place because they have all kinds of cool stuff you don't find anyplace else to use for school projects and hey, it's cheap! This little shop has good vibes and especially whenever I overhear another person ask "What's this?" Lisa answers "It's whatever YOU want it to be!' Never fails to put a smile on my face. You meet local artists and even run into some familiar peeps from the neighborhood. Don't forget to bring your business cards or flyers, they like promoting locals too.

Carie J · 7 months ago

Right on District crew! This is exactly why you are THE BEST weekly in SoCal! This creative reuse shop rocks and thanks for writing about it so that all the rest of the community knows what this place is all about. Applause to Vy Pham for writing this awesome story!

Elliot Gonzales · 7 months ago

Lisa is great! Being that she just moved here about a year ago, she certainly made herself welcome to the community. Her shop is central point for everyone in the East Village. She support local businesses and artists and has a tirue vision of what an arts community is, what a community is. She has supported Green Long Beach! as a festival and as a movement. It is an honor to have her in the East Village and in Long Beach, people like Lisa and stores like the Depot for Creative Reuse are make LB so great.

yvonnehogan · 7 months ago

Lisa Hernandez is my kind on entrepreneur. Reuse, reduce, recycle which positively impacts the enviroment and creates profits and jobs and a location to meet other green like-minded individuals. What an innovative thinker!

Yvonne Hogan
Customer of Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse

Rick Berry · 7 months ago

Thanks so much for telling people about the Depot! Hats off to Lisa. Please support her efforts.

Sara · 7 months ago

Lisa is an absolute angel of a human being and her ability to find art and love in some of the simplest things is truly an inspiration. I moved from Long Beach to Seattle a few weeks ago, and can honestly say that the Depot tops the list of the few things I miss about the city. Her energy and optimism are unparalleled, and she's inspired me to open a shop of my own someday soon. Thank you Lisa, for making me not only a better artist, but a better person all around.

shirley · 7 months ago

This is the best write up I have seen on 'The Depot'...Lisa has such great vision and Vy Pham is an excellent writer who depicts all of the 'flavor' of the Depot...actually this is one of the best photos too!...by Rosheila Robles
I shop the Depot regularly and also have a bag collection "Plan-it" that is featured in the store...if we can reduce waste thru reuse & then reuse something after it has already had 'one life' then we have reduced both landfill space & recycling which should really be the big vision in waste reduction...thank you for a great article!

inarosie · 6 months ago

I am sooooo glad, that the District has finally taken notice of this Downtown/East side gem. My sons and I stumbled upon this quiet, unassuming beacon of change while walking home from some vague unremembered place (or maybe it was the post office) and our lives were changed forever.

This is now my go to place for so many items : Light bulbs, pens, markers, paper, fabric, gift bags and nail polish to name a few. Once we started becoming regular visitors, the creativeness that had been sucked out of my families brains --via TV, laziness, etc-- have been restored and remastered.

I am sooooo grateful to Lisa for sticking to her vision and for encouraging me and others to follow her course. Lisa had to start this store with her own savings, even as a minority woman and a veteran. I hope that every city office that would not assist her in opening the store, that now happily lays claim to its successes, fall inline and be ready to help the new pioneers of the "green" movement. Hopefully, every single one of those people that told her "NO", must now realign their thinking and set forth on the way to helping those who chose to go off the beaten path and trail blaze in sustainable solutions.I am eagerly anticpating the "LB Depot" effect on the rest of the city.

Thank you for the great article!

LBartist · 5 months ago

Glad you guys did this article; I have never heard of this place before but as an artist and crafter I can't wait to go check them out.
I'm also telling friends, who often create with (and re-purpose) recycled items, about this wonderful resource.