Photo courtesy the City of Los Angeles

Posetano Road (17432) Emergency Road Repair

Los Angeles

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Submitted by: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering

Owner | Lead Design Firm | Construction Manager: City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering

General Contractor: Mladen Buntich Construction Co.

Subcontractors: Zamborelli; Alcorn Fence; LNA Concrete Structures

The early 2025 Palisades Fire triggered a slope failure in the Castellammare neighborhood that took out part of Posetano Road, the only access and the utility route for three hillside homes. The material that came off it landed on Stretto Way below, blocking seven more houses that had survived the fire.

Before the Bureau of Engineering for the city of Los Angeles could design anything, it had to work with the U.S.…