Long-time Popular Pub Announces Closing to Make Way for Housing Project ⁠6%

By Gab Apo⁠12%

7/31/2026, 11:17:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Indoctrination, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 13.8% saturation with 47 hits. Analysis detected 325 faulty-reasoning hits from 340 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 16.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠6% (24,971 of 26,447 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.40% of the article peer group.

Lucky Baldwins Trappiste, the East Pasadena pub that has operated near Pasadena City College for 15 years, closes to the public effective Aug. 1 to make way for a proposed affordable housing project, owner Peggy Simonian said. 
The pub at 1770 E. 
Colorado Blvd. announced the closure on the Lucky Baldwins Instagram account. 
“It is with much sadness that we are closing our East Pasadena location,” Simonian said. 
She said the business had “felt very much part of the community here in East Pasadena,” and thanked longtime customers and the staff who “made Lucky Baldwins Trappiste possible day after day.” 
Trappiste is the sister restaurant to the original Lucky Baldwins in Old Town Pasadena and to Lucky Baldwins Delirium in Sierra Madre, both of which remain open. 
The Trappiste site is part of a mixed-use development proposed for 1756–1776 E. 
Colorado Blvd., on the south side of Colorado Boulevard east of Pasadena City College. 
San Diego-based CPR Affordable Housing and Community Development is the applicant. 
The project is referred to in filings and media coverage as “Colorado Crest.” 
City staff and Design Commission documents describe a seven-story mixed-use tower with about 90 residential units, enabled by California’s State Density Bonus Law, which raises a base density of about 41 units to 90. 
CPR’s application specifies 88 affordable units plus two manager’s units, in one-, two- and three-bedroom formats. 
Apart from the manager’s units, the project is 100% affordable and reserved for lower-income households — the qualification that triggers both the density bonus and the reduced parking. 
The building would rise about 83 feet, exceeding the 51-foot maximum in the East Colorado Specific Plan Mixed-Use Core zone. 
Plans call for roughly 1,900 to 2,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space fronting Colorado Boulevard, replacing four existing one-story commercial buildings. 
As of spring 2026, the commission was scheduled to hold a special meeting to vote on consolidated design review for the Council District 7 site. 
Lucky Baldwins was founded in 1996. 
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340 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker14%attributed speech293writer words
Selected voice

Peggy Simonian

100%flagged-word coverage
47 attributed words100% of attributed speech60% writer coverage
0%7.5%15.0%Indoctrination-11.6 ptsWriter: 11.6%Peggy Simonian: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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