January 02, 2006
Preservation Headlines
Puzzling out a 16-acre park in downtown L.A.
Los Angeles - "In a year or so, a 16 acre park will begin to emerge in the space between the Music Center and City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. It will be part of a major new redevelopment plan called The Grand Avenue Project..."
Activism, music intersect in Leimert Park
Leimert Park - "Developed in 1927 by the Walter H. Leimert Co., a Los Angeles-based real estate firm that's still in business, this neighborhood began as a self-contained complex of homes, apartments and businesses, complete with a plaza-like park on the southwestern boundary..."
Lincoln Place: Evicted Venice Tenants Hang 180 Keys In Tent City
Venice - "Evicted tenants of an historic Venice apartment complex hung 180 "keys" Tuesday on a 24-foot tree located in the tent city they have been living at since they were locked out of their homes three weeks ago..."
Battle of the malls comes to a close
Glendale - "Mall owner General Growth's move to dismiss its own lawsuit comes about a month after the state Court of Appeal ruled against the company. General Growth had argued unsuccessfully that the city failed to consider the historical significance of two buildings on the site of the $264 million Americana at Brand project..."
Latest Capistrano Mission: Exterminate Those Termites
San Juan Capistrano - "Over more than two centuries, it has been subjected to earthquakes, floods and long stretches of neglect. And now, the historic mission at San Juan Capistrano is under siege by an army of hungry foes: termites..."
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