If you live here, you already know Sunday in Studio City has a shape. It starts on Ventura Place, tightens around Radford, and loosens back out into Tujunga Village by lunch. What most residents do not realize is that the parking structure they duck into at 9 a.m. is the same 55-acre lot that has been on the front page of the trade press all year. The Sunday routine and the biggest real estate story in the neighborhood are literally the same address.
Here is how a local reads the morning.
The three shifts, and why the hour matters
The Studio City Farmers Market runs every Sunday, rain or shine, on Ventura Place between Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Radford Avenue. It is a non-profit jointly owned by the Studio City Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Studio City Residents Association, held every Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The market's own signage lists closing at 1 p.m., and vendors mostly break down between 1 and 2, so treat the last hour as clean-up rather than shopping.
The single most useful piece of local knowledge is that the same market plays three different roles depending on when you show up:
| Window | What it feels like | Who it is for |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Calm aisles, full inventory, easy parking | Serious shoppers, dog walkers, meal planners |
| 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Peak crowd, kids everywhere, live energy | Families, brunch-firsters, out-of-town guests |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Thinning crowds, some stalls sold out, discounts on the way | Anyone happy to improvise dinner |
Regulars know the mid-morning wave is not a bug. The petting zoo, pony rides, inflatable slides, and train ride are pinned near the Ventura Boulevard entrance, so families cluster there while the produce aisles stay walkable. Los Angeles magazine has voted it the most kid-friendly farmers market, and Sunday between 10 and 11:30 is why.
About the lot you park in
The reliable Sunday parking is the Radford Studio Center structure, past the main gate on Radford Avenue, with the Chase Bank lot as overflow. Everyone in the neighborhood knows this. What has shifted this year is who owns the gate.
Hackman Capital Partners acquired the Radford lot, formerly known as CBS Studio Center, from ViacomCBS for $1.85 billion in 2021. The plan was a full renovation. Then the production market turned. Bloomberg reported that revenue from the property covered just 21% of Hackman's debt service costs on the property as of last June. In January 2026, the 55-acre lot was turned over to lenders Goldman Sachs Group Inc. after Hackman Capital Partners defaulted on a $1.1-billion mortgage.
Then the more interesting update. As of June 2026, Netflix is under contract to purchase the property.
That is a genuinely rare thing to be able to say about a neighborhood landmark. The market's parking structure sits inside a lot whose name almost certainly changes in the next twelve months. The physical footprint that gave Studio City its name, and that hosted Gunsmoke, Gilligan's Island, and Seinfeld, is about to belong to the streaming service most of the neighborhood already subscribes to. Whether that shifts anything about Sunday parking is unknown. For now, the structure opens for the market as it always has.
The other detail worth filing away: Radford's redevelopment plan proposes bridging the missing leg of the bicycle and pedestrian path at Radford Avenue next to the Tujunga Wash, opening full access to the path. If any version of that survives new ownership, the Sunday walking radius from the market gets meaningfully larger.
What locals actually buy
A market of roughly 80 to 100 vendors covers more ground than a first-timer expects. The pattern most residents settle into is a weekly perishables run rather than a browse:
- Seasonal produce and eggs as the anchor
- Bread, honey, olive oil, and cheese for the pantry refill
- One prepared thing eaten on the walk, usually a tamale, a crepe, or a fresh pastry
- Flowers as an afterthought that becomes the reason people know your house
The market skews toward meal planning, not novelty. Vendors offer everything from grass-fed beef and fresh seafood to artisan breads, olive oils, honey, and prepared foods. If you time it right, the final thirty minutes is the discount window on anything left over.
One rule pets owners learn quickly: no animals inside the market perimeter. Bring the dog for the walk before or after, not the aisles.
The four blocks after: Tujunga Village
The best-kept part of the Sunday routine is that once you have your bags, you are a short walk from Tujunga Avenue between Moorpark and Woodbridge. Tujunga Village is a row of independent boutiques and restaurants running along Tujunga Avenue between Woodbridge Street and Moorpark Street just north of the LA River, a genuine oasis in the San Fernando Valley with a "Main Street" feel of days gone by.
The block reads like a short list rather than a strip:
- Aroma Cafe, 4360 Tujunga Avenue. The default coffee stop. A mainstay for more than 20 years, with a line out the door most mornings and a wait for tables on weekends. Post-market, the covered patio is where you actually sit.
- Caioti Pizza Cafe, 4346 Tujunga Avenue. Slices, plus the signature dish, "The Salad," made with a tangy balsamic vinaigrette. The salad has its own folklore. Expectant moms record their thoughts in journals kept on the counter after eating the salad whose dressing is said to induce labor.
- Gelato Bar, 4342½ Tujunga Avenue. The pistachio tastes like pistachios rather than the green stuff so many places serve, and the ricotta gelato ribboned with berries recalls a classic New York cheesecake.
- Vitello's, 4349 Tujunga Avenue. Old-school Italian, and upstairs the Jazz and Supper Club runs when the block goes quiet in the evening.
Between them: Verona, Limelight, Jose Neira Salon, Hoity Toity, and a rotating cast of small shops. The point of the walk is not shopping. It is that the block hits a scale you rarely find in the Valley, where four short blocks contain the coffee, the lunch, the dessert, and the errand.
If you want to keep moving
Two extensions of the morning are worth knowing.
The first is the LA River greenway, one block south. It is the flatter option for a walk after a market run and connects the market to the residential streets east of Colfax with almost no traffic to cross.
The second is Fryman Canyon, up above Laurel Canyon. It is the option locals reach for when they want the market plus a real climb. Nobody drives; the flow is out the market, into the car, up to the trailhead, back down by noon. It only works if you leave the market on the earlier side.
What this actually tells you about the neighborhood
A market is a soft thing to build a Sunday around. What Studio City has that most Valley neighborhoods do not is the density: a non-profit market with roughly 100 vendors, a walkable independent retail block four minutes away, a canyon trail eight minutes away, and a river path across the street. All of it hangs on a 55-acre parcel whose ownership is in the middle of a national headline. The routine has not changed. The address behind it is about to.
If you have been curious what any of this means for property values on the streets nearest Radford, or if you are weighing a sale ahead of whatever the Netflix transition brings to the neighborhood, that is a conversation worth having with someone who lives in this data every week. Reach out to Brandon Kaufman to request a free home valuation or schedule a consultation.
