Arson at Geoffrey Palmer's Da Vinci apartments in Los Angeles, California

Who is Geoffrey H Palmer of G.H. Palmer and Associates. Geoffrey Harrison Palmer was born May 11, 1950. His siblings are William Todd Palmer August 18, 1947, Michael Ellis Palmer December 11, 1951 to July 1, 1973, Robert Preston Palmer October 12, 1954, Fia Palmer-Richmond December 31, 1956, half sibling Daniel Saxon Palmer Jr. March 16, 1961 born to second wife Shirley Clark 1932.
Geoffrey Palmer's father was Daniel Saxon Palmer born July 5, 1920 in Hungary, died December 22, 2006. He was a well known Los Angeles architect who partnered with William Krisel. His mother was Doris Beverly Weintraub born 1921 in New York. Geoff's wife is Anne Emerich-Palm June 25, 1965. They have a son named Grant Henri Palmer born 2002.

Geoff went to undergrad in Boulder, Colorado. He attended law school at Pepperdine and was accepted to the bar but is currently inactive.

Geoffrey Palmer has a criminal record for building or demolishing without a permit. I think this is the 1887 Victorian home which one of his bulldozers "accidentally" backed into and destroyed.

Geoffrey Palmer has been a bit of a controversy in downtown Los Angeles ever since his large controversial faux-Italian behemoth of an apartment complex burned down yesterday morning "mysteriously." http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-massive-la-project-destroyed-in-fire-was-controversial-20141208-story.html

Many have written about this controversial developer who has not granted an interview in the last ten years.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/7_awful_stories_about_the_man_destroying_downtown_la.php While his father was a well known architect who brought affordable, modern design to the post war masses, Geoff has given LA ugly-faux Italian cookie cutter, cheaply made expensive rental units built in slum areas in a castle, fortress fashion. Most of the tenants are young, International USC students who are just looking for security and amenities.

Geoffrey H Palmer is also known for his extravagant taste in homes and home decor. He purchased the overly gaudy French 1913 1000 Cove in Beverly Hills for $29,000,000. 10 bed, 14 bath, 16,000 sf main house with guest houses. He then proceeded to decorate it in gold lame everything.

If you take a look at Geoffrey Palmer's lawsuits, he has a lot of slip and fall, small claims, medical malpractice... Geoff Palmer sued the City of Los Angeles twice, lost and appealed for violation of his civil rights. He didn't think it was fair that he should have low income units in his buildings even though this was mandatory for all builders.

I think the real reason Geoffrey Harrison Palmer has not wanted to give an interview in ten years is because he doesn't want to have to answer the hard questions. Why does he only care about money? Why is his house made out of almost solid gold and burgundy velvet? Is it physically possible to build a cheaper building than he does? Why does he insist on building shorter, squatter buildings? Is it because then he can use cheaper wood...even if it is highly flammable besides not as seismically fit?

The result of the arson investigation should be interesting. Did Geoffrey burn down his building? Why did he only burn down the cheaper apartments almost right on top of the freeway and not building A which has all the amenities and higher priced units? Hmm, did he burn down the lower income units?! Did someone who hated him burn it down? Did community activists burn it down or someone like ELF? Maybe his finance company burn it down? Based on the intensity of the fire, the fact that it seemed to all burn at once, I believe it was arson.

Building A was untouched. Building B in the inferior location smack on the freeway was destroyed. If you look at the diagram that is where the cheaper, smaller units were located.

Building B was destroyed. The heat also destroyed part of the freeway and buildings 100 yards away, i.e. 300 feet. Building A is across the street, what, 40 feet away? yet it was not harmed when buildings 300 feet away were harmed. It's set to open January 2015. It has bigger, more expensive units with all the amenities in better location. It's not located smack dab on the freeway. When I used to drive by when the complex got over two stories I felt I could high five the workmen on the site if I were in the passenger seat. They were that close. The complex is maximum three feet from the freeway.

I personally feel Geoff Palmer really only wanted to open the nicer, better units away from the freeway. He got stuck in approval process to open the cheaper, shittier units located almost on top of the freeway. I now think Geoff caused it to burn for insurance, planning, fuck you LA City reasons. Maybe approval process caused delay costs. Maybe he just wanted to fuck with the city.

An interesting thing. Geoff Palmer is EXTREMELY materialistic, into money, gold, lame, excess. His dad was a minimalist, modernist, into the environment, animals, nature, people, community. So was his second wife and Daniel Saxon Palmer Jr. He was into surfing, environment, animal causes like his mom.

Maybe Geoff Palmer was upset dad left his first wife, his mother, to be with another when he was just a kid. Maybe that is why son wanted to show up dad in the money department by creating the cheapest shit developments which hurt community, nature, look like shit....