DEVELOPERS UNVEIL VISION FOR DOWNTOWN PUBLIC HEARINGS SCHEDULED ON GRAND PLAN.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Developers on Tuesday unveiled their first scale model of a $1.2 billion downtown project to transform the area around the Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. into a bustling nightlife district featuring gardens and envisioned as the city's ``great new gathering place.'' Roof gardens would be installed atop towers housing condos and shops, while ground-level gardens would line a pedestrian walkway leading down Bunker Hill Bunker Hill “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes”; American Revolutionary battle (1775). [Am. Hist.: Worth, 22] See : Battle away from the concert hall and curving around into L.A.'s new ``Grand Park.'' Public hearings on the conceptual plans will be held Tuesday in Van Nuys and on other days throughout the county. ``Some of the big ideas we've already gotten from the public is that this has got to be the single place where the city of Los Angeles
``The Chicago Millennium Park Millennium Park is a prominent civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois and an important landmark of the city's lakefront. A redeveloped section of Grant Park, the 24. , which we were involved with, went from being freight yards to a parking lot and from a parking lot to really the new civic heart of the city.'' In contrast, in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. ``we are starting way in advance of that with the county mall already a park and this truly can be the city's festival grounds.'' In December, the project developer, The Related Companies of California, released the results of the first public hearings on the plan. At those hearings, people said they wanted to see an urban district with an icon like the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, structure designed by A. G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an iron framework supported on four masonry piers, from which rise four columns uniting to form one or the Barcelona Fish - a landmark Spanish structure created by famed Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. - to attract visitors. At the unveiling of the table-sized model Tuesday, developers said they would like the area to feature a variety of works of art and landscaped gardens among condo and office towers and various restaurants, shops and a boutique cinema. But no one mentioned any large symbol that would define L.A. like the Eiffel Tower does Paris. At those meetings in October and November, some people suggested that developers enlarge the proposed park between City Hall and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving 3.9 million residents in 2006. It was founded in 1902 to deliver water and electricity supplies to residents and businesses in Los Angeles. headquarters by relocating the earthquake-damaged county Hall of Administration and Stanley Mosk Courthouse buildings. The county has been in litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. since the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, attempting to collect $100 million from various insurance companies to repair or replace the county hall. Court officials are also interested in eventually repairing or replacing the courthouse. ``In the future, if these two buildings leave, we have the ability to do some very exciting things,'' Enquist said. ``The first one is that the park would expand to (the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a cathedral church of the United States in the City of Los Angeles in California. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles[1] and seat of its archbishop, Roger Cardinal Mahony. ) and Cathedral Square. And then we'd get the cathedral, the full Music Center and Disney Hall surrounding all this open space.'' Preliminary proposals call for the creation of a 16-acre park in the Civic Center as well as 2,000 to 2,400 housing units, a large banquet/event facility and 600,000 square feet of office-tower space. Some members of the Grand Avenue Authority, the public entity overseeing it, have expressed concern about where they will obtain the $300 million needed to develop the park, underground parking structures and street improvements, saying they don't want taxpayers to get stuck with the tab. ``There are a series of public benefits that will be embedded in this plan,'' said William A. Witte, president of The Related Companies. ``Twenty percent of the housing will be affordable housing. ``And part of our task is to construct a project that is self-sustaining, not only revenues from the project to help finance the park, but that the park is not turned over to a public agency without it being self-sustaining financially.'' Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com IF YOU GO --A public hearing on the Grand Avenue plan will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. today at the Westside/Hollywood Roxbury Park Recreation Center, 471 South Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, and from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, at the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Marvin Braude Constituent Center, 6262 Van Nuys Blvd., Van Nuys. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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