Our second of several empty lots (Empty lot #1--Leucadia!: Let's Tour North Leucadia (part 4) Why are there so many fenced off empty lots in Leucadia when coastal property is so highly desired? Well, I know from experience trying to get my wealthy friends to invest in Leucadia that they have two concerns: A. What is the deal with the flooding? B. What is the deal with redevelopment? The threat of eminent domain spooked off several friends of mine who wanted to invest in coastal Leucadia. Way to go RDA pundits!

If I could buy this lot I would put in a prefab live/work building kind of like this,
Here is a funky little place, the Rancho Leonero Fishing Resort booking office. *UPDATE-This building is curently empty and available for lease.
Now we are at the infamous Bar Leucadian which locals still call The Leucadian or "The Luke". (and I liked the old yellow sign better).
When I turned 21 The Leucadian was still in true dive bar form and my friends and I went there the first time on a dare. We were not welcome as the place was filled with sketchy crack head dry wall workers and fumed out house painters playing pool and smoking millions of cigarettes. However, during the 90's an increased population of twenty-something year olds were living in Encinitas and dive bars became the trendy thing to do. Young pretty girls started going to The Leucadian and they even started a Thursday night Ladies Night. The Leucadian also became the only place in Encinitas to see local rock bands play like Lo-Fi Nipple and The Stereotypes. Once a year they even have Leudrock, where local bands play all day and all night ( Leudrock 2 shines its light on underground)
Here is the myspace page for the booking manager if you want your band to play there, click me.
So, go to the Leucadian and play some darts and have a round with your friends and be sure to toast funky Leucadia. Every town has their bar, and this is ours.
For all the laid back grooviness there is in Leucadia there will always be those guys with their big jacked up trucks.
Weekends on coast highway Leucadia mean hoards of lycra clad 10 speeders who take up the entire lane and run stop signs. This is one of the smaller groups.