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he Downtown college education scene is expanding. Cal State Los Angeles officials announced last week that the 24,000-student university is creating a campus at the edge of the Financial District. The university has signed a lease for 21,000 square feet of space at 801 S. Grand Ave., on the sixth floor of a 22-story office and residential tower. Cal State L.A. will offer undergraduate and graduate programs, along with professional development and certificate programs, when the campus opens in January 2016. The classes will cater to the needs of working professionals and people in career transitions, according to the university.

“Our mission is to provide high-quality university teaching in the heart of Los Angeles,” said Cal State L.A. President William A. Covino in a prepared statement. “We will bring the resources of Cal State L.A. to students Downtown, where they work and live.” The main campus of Cal State L.A. is about four miles east of Downtown.

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ne of the primary goals of the Bringing Back Broadway initiative, spearheaded by 14th District City Councilman José

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he organization Town Hall-Los Angeles regularly hosts lunch events with bigwigs like Mayor Eric Garcetti or discussions of meaty civic issues such as the minimum wage hike. On Thursday, July 16, the organization is seeking to rope in a younger audience with the program “Silicon Beach and Beyond: How Innovation Is Driving L.A.’s Tech Future.”

The 12:30 p.m. lunch discussion (networking starts an hour before) at the City Club (555 S. Flower St., 51st floor) will feature Joel Carnes of X Prize, Bryce Maddock of TaskUs, Brandon Shamim from Beacon Management Group, and Matthew Goldman of Wallaby Financial.

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The program will explore the growth of the local technology sector and the impact it will have on the demand for skilled labor, real estate and investment capital. Tickets are $15 for students, $20 for Town Hall members and $25 for non-members. Information and registration is at townhall-la.org.

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Williams Niles has announced that she will be leaving the organization at the end of the month. Williams Niles is taking on the role of fundraising director for the new Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at her alma mater, the University of Southern California. She ran the Music Center’s dance program and served as director of programming before taking her current job in 2013. “My impact was part of a collective work, and I’m grateful to the entire programming staff,” Williams Niles said. “If I could’ve delayed this new opportunity, I would have.” The move comes as a new Music Center Continued on page 7

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Drinking In a Changing Downtown

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t’s never been hard to get a drink in Downtown.

Even before the residential revolution began in 2000, there were numerous restaurants serving alcohol and bars that did a brisk happy hour business. No one ever had to go far for a beer, a nice glass of wine or a simple cocktail.

That said, it’s never been easier to get a drink in Downtown — including one prepared by a nattily clad “mixologist” — than it is in 2015. While access to alcohol brings up issues such as drunk driving and, of course, alcoholism, the arrival of dozens of watering holes in the past few years, in all parts of the Central City, has been a net positive.

Los Angeles Downtown News recently published the article “50 Great Places to Get a Drink in Downtown,” and while the number is impressive, it is hardly exhaustive. Most of the spots on the list were bars, not restaurants (almost every eatery also serves booze), and space constraints meant we could only include a fraction of the joints in the area. In Downtown, our cup runneth over with beer, wine and spirits.

The emergence of a bar culture in Downtown has been good for the entire community. Bars are a prime socializing spot, particularly for people in their 20s and 30s, and individuals in that demographic flock to the dizzying array of options in Downtown, particularly on weekends. There are destinations in Chinatown and South Park, in the Arts District and Little Tokyo. Perhaps the biggest concentration remains in the Financial District and the Historic Core.

When people come to get a drink, the sidewalks are activated and there are patrons for restaurants and other businesses.

Downtown is seeing an increase not just in options, but in variety — the Downtown News article included sections for wine bars, beer halls, upscale spots and even dives. While this is no different than what is found in communities across the country, rarely are there so many choices so close together.

Those in Downtown can easily bounce from bar to bar to bar without ever climbing in a car, and getting home safely is only an Uber (or for residents, maybe a short walk) away.

While the explosion of bars has helped put Downtown on the nightlife map, it has also been a jobs generator and a contributor to the economy. Bars may be one of the few “service” businesses where many employees already make $15 an hour. There are those who can afford rents in Downtown because they work at a bar here.

Some may decry the preponderance of bars in Downtown, saying there are too many, or that their presence challenges those in recovery, including formerly homeless individuals. Nothing we say will convince them otherwise.

Still, we think the surge in nightspots has created an appealing personality for Downtown. Whether they specialize in $4 beers, $12 glasses of wine or $15 craft cocktails, the bars bring people out and, in their way, they bring people together.

We stand with those who say the flood of new bars is a good thing.

Downtown Shines in a World Cup Rally

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n July 6, the United States Women’s National Team beat Japan in the World Cup final. The 5-2 victory in Vancouver gave the U.S. its first championship in 16 years and its third title overall.

Another amazing thing happened two days later: When it came time for the team to celebrate that victory and hoist the World Cup trophy back on domestic turf, they went first not to expected locales such as New York City or Washington, D.C., but instead to Downtown Los Angeles (a parade took place three days later in Manhattan).

Downtown and the rest of the city responded, and on Tuesday, July 8, thousands of people thronged L.A. Live to cheer on Carli Lloyd, who scored three goals in the final game, goalie Hope Solo, fan favorites Christie Rampone and Abby Wambach, and the rest of the 23-person team and the coaching staff. The brief rally was thrilling, with Wambach leading the charged crowd in a chant of “I believe that we just won!”

Although L.A. Live has turned purple and gold for celebrations of the Lakers’ NBA championships, and been filled with black, purple and silver following the Kings’ pair of Stanley Cup victories, in this case the plaza and the surrounding streets were red, white and blue. It wasn’t just a local victory, but a national one.

This was a sight to behold for many reasons, the first and most important being the performance of the team. As has been well chronicled, the squad under coach Jill Ellis improved as the tournament progressed, faring adequately but unspectacularly in group play and then surging once the knockout rounds began, finally and fittingly peaking in the rout over Japan. The country has reason to be proud of these athletes — their years of preparation, their teamwork and their ability to shirk off early criticism and remain focused on the task at hand.

The decision to mark the victory in Downtown is, for those who have been here a while, nearly as momentous (key word “nearly”; we’re not taking anything away from the athletes). L.A. Live didn’t exist even a decade ago (it opened in 2007), and if in 2005 you had suggested that a national champion not based in

Downtown come to the Central City to commemorate a victory, you likely would have been laughed out of whatever room you were in.

What brought the World Cup celebration to the community?

Certainly a number of things, starting with the fact that Anschutz Entertainment Group spent billions to build L.A. Live and has lured millions of people there over the years with games, concerts and festivals that utilize the indoor and outdoor space. Microsoft Plaza (formerly Nokia Plaza) may never have become Downtown’s equivalent of Times Square, as former AEG President and CEO Tim Leiweke predicted when it was being built (more and more Grand Park is filling that role), but it is a valuable, community-minded gathering point for certain events.

Indeed, those past celebrations of Lakers and Kings’ championships likely also helped convince World Cup fan rally organizers to stage the event in Downtown. The parades and community celebrations in and around Staples Center were enthusiastic gatherings, and it’s hard to forget the cheering crowds, the flying confetti and the general sense of giddiness. The emotion of those street parties resonated, as did the fact that organizers and the police pulled off safe gatherings.

One also should not dismiss the surge in greater Downtown as a reason for holding the World Cup rally at L.A. Live. In recent years the community has drawn national press, with publications such as the New York Times and GQ singing the praises of the area, thanks in part to its rebounding restaurant, nightlife and housing scene.

All those mentions build over time and create an impression of the community far different than existed, as referenced above, just a decade ago. The articles, along with events such as the 2014 Made in America festival in Grand Park, have shown people across the country that Downtown L.A. makes a fitting location for, and can easily handle, something this big.

We’re pleased that the champs came Downtown to celebrate their World Cup victory, and we’re already hoping that they’ll be back to mark another win four years from now. This short-butsweet celebration will long spark fond memories.

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Main Street Barricades Become a City-State Battle Point Stakeholders, Including Local Councilman, Complain About Blocked Sidewalk in Front of Reagan Building

By Heidi Kulicke ortions of streets and sidewalks are always being blocked in Downtown Los Angeles, as work crews set up barriers, do repairs or utility work, and then open the right-of-way and move on to the next place.

Outside a portion of the Ronald Reagan Building on Main Street south of Third, however, a set of barriers has been in place for more than five years, to the consternation of some local stakeholders, including the area’s City Council representative.

Now, there is a seeming promise to do whatever repairs are needed and move the barriers away from the state office building. Yet no cost estimate or timeline have been revealed.

The issue has long been a sore point for Will Wright, a Downtown resident and the director of government and public affairs at the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Wright moved Downtown in 2010 and has passed the barriers nearly every day since then. Five years ago, Wright asked the State of California Department of General Services, which has offices in the building along with other state entities, and which manages state real estate assets, why the barriers were up and when they would be removed.

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cracks, but that given the recession, funding for repairs was nonexistent. Yet as the economy improved, Wright said the state still claimed not to have the money to make the fixes.

“If the barriers were there for six months, maybe even a year, I think everyone would understand,” Wright said last week. “But after six years, it becomes a bigger issue of oversight and possible laziness.”

Wright launched another email fusillade in late June. In response, Carl Lofton, the department’s regional and building manager, told Wright that funding for the repairs “will be approved this year.”

What that entails remains unclear. Lofton did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails from a reporter. Jacqueline Cummings, from the Department of General Services public affairs office in Sacramento, said in an email to Los Angeles Downtown News that it would be “premature to speculate on a timetable or costs” related to the project.

Cummings continued, “The state of California is committed to being a good neighbor and part of the vibrant Downtown Los Angeles community. We continue to explore options involving the Ronald Reagan Building. In the meantime, traffic barriers must remain in place for safety precautions.”

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Downtown resident Will Wright stands next to the barriers that have blocked off a portion of the sidewalk and plaza in front of the Ronald Reagan state building for more than five years.

Root of the Problem The barriers went up in 2009 after the sidewalk became uneven, according to Wright.

Today, a crack about 20 feet long and half an inch to an inch wide is visible, and an uneven piece of cement reveals part of a tree root. Approximately 30 plastic barricades, each about two feet long, separate passersby from the cracked portion of sidewalk on

a plaza near the Main Street entrance to the building (the entrance is closed, with signs directing visitors to Spring Street). There is still about 10 feet of space for pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk.

The situation has drawn the ire of City Councilman José Huizar, whose 14th District includes Downtown. He said attempts to recContinued on page 6

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A Cop Theme Meets Rock in Downtown’s New Gay Bar Historic Core’s Precinct Is the Central City’s First New Gay Nightlife Destination in Decades

By Heidi Kulicke owntown’s gay community has much to celebrate. On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. A week before, Precinct, Downtown’s first new gay bar in decades, shirked off some pesky permitting issues and opened.

The former event will go down in American history. The latter will kick off a new cultural future in Downtown.

The 8,500-square-foot Precinct is on the upper floor of a two-story building at 357 S. Broadway, above the casual Italian restaurant Pestolini. The building was a State of California Department of Corrections parole office for many years. That past prompted co-owners Thor Stephens and Brian McIntire to adopt a police theme.

Precinct is also marketed as a “rock and roll gay bar,” though Stephens said it’s a state of mind rather than the only style of music the bar plays.

“To me, rock and roll is more of an attitude,” Stephens, 43, said.

“The cool thing about rock is it doesn’t have limits. It’s about being true to yourself.”

The bar is open seven days a week until 2 a.m. and has a full lineup of resident and guest DJs. There is brunch service on weekends from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Stephens said the plan is to continue the weekend brunch and add daily lunch and dinner in the coming weeks. The menu will feature Southern comfortstyle soul food, with options such as chicken gumbo fries and a blackened catfish sandwich.

Stephens said that Precinct was inspired as a response to the dearth of places for the gay community in Downtown. Not everyone wants to drive to clubs or bars in Silver Lake or West Hollywood, Stephens said, and while there are some pop-up gay events in the Central City, there was no central gathering point.

While the idea may have been easy, getting Precinct online

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Thor Stephens (left) and Brian McIntire are co-owners of Precinct, which opened last month at 357 S. Broadway.

wasn’t. Zoning and permitting issues took longer than expected and delayed the opening by a year, Stephens said. Still, he and McIntire were not deterred.

“People said we were insane to try and do this, but we were determined to make it happen,” Stephens said.

Rise and Fall The debut of Precinct may mark a return to the past.

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“The fact that most of the gay bars tend to be on the Westside is not a true depiction of where all gay people actually live,” said Acosta, who resides in the Financial District.

Acosta has gone to Precinct a few times already. He praised the bar for the varied crowd it’s attracting.

“The bar represents a broad group of people from all ages and backgrounds,” Acosta said. “It seems like they are bringing out a lot of diversity within the scene and it would be great to see that continue.”

The point was echoed by Downtown fashion designer and clothing manufacturer Sam Salman, who on a recent Saturday evening said the Precinct crowd is a nice change from the somewhat “superficial” West Hollywood scene.

“People here are real and from all walks of life,” Salman said.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of car you drive, or what cologne you’re wearing. People just are who they are.”

More on the Way The police theme is evident in the bar’s name, as well as a giant 17-foot cut-out of a mustache-bearing police officer with sunglasses that greets visitors upon entering. A staircase leads to the second floor, where cushioned benches line a wall. Further back are two bars, a stage, a DJ booth and a dance floor.

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“My office has actively reached out to the management of the Reagan Building and members of the State Legislature for some time now, urging them to prioritize funding repairs to the building’s plaza in order to reopen it for public access,” Huizar said in an email. “Now that the state budget situation has improved post recession, we hope that the barriers will be removed and the plaza will be repaired as soon as possible.”

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sible for the sidewalk crack. He suggested the department remove some of the concrete and install granite and planters, or gravel and drought-resistant plants. Wright told Downtown News that the Department of General Services has not responded to his ideas.

Cummings, from the public affairs office, said the traffic barriers must remain in place as the department explores options for the sidewalk.

Wright isn’t the only one who has taken note of the blocked sidewalk. It’s been a topic of complaint on the DTLA Facebook group, where members post pictures of the barriers and voice their frustration.

Additionally, in 2013, street artist Calder Greenwood and his partner, who goes by the pseudonym Wild Life, created a papier-mâché street barricade twice the size of the real thing.

They placed it within the plaza area blocked off by the actual barricades.

On a recent weekday, Downtown resident Ron Osborn also complained about the barriers while walking his dog. Osborn said he had heard that the barriers were placed in front of the building to keep homeless individuals off the property. Cummings refused to comment on the subject.

Currently, a few homeless encampments are erected directly across the street from the building on Main Street.

“I’m not sure what’s uglier, the homeless encampment or the barricades,” said Osborn, a screenwriter whose credits include the Brad Pitt film Meet Joe Black. “Either way, it’s counterproductive to the sidewalk.”

Wright said the barricades serve as a blight in the community. While he is eager to see repairs, he said his main concern is preventing a temporary “Band-Aid fix.” heidi@downtownnews.com

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An open-air seating area offers views of Broadway. The “rock and roll gay bar,” as it is called, holds 300 people.

There is also a large open-air seating area. The glass has been removed from the windows to create a patio-like atmosphere, Stephens said.

It didn’t come easy. Opening Precinct cost $900,000, including paying rent for 18 months during construction, Stephens said.

Still, the response has been strong. Stephens said on weekends Precinct is often filled to capacity, which is 300 people.

Jimmy Jasmine is one of the patrons. He recently visited Precinct with his fiancé to celebrate a birthday, and praised Stephens and McIntire for their diligence.

“I think they are really smart to put all their blood, sweat and tears into this place and make it work,” Jasmine said. “It’s really good to come out and have a place to hang. We needed this.”

While Precinct is the first new addition in years, it won’t be the last. A 1,900-square-foot gay bar

dubbed Redline, at 131 E. Sixth St. on the ground floor of the Santa Fe Lofts, has been in the planning stage for months. It is expected to open by the end of July, said Oliver Alpuche, who is partnering on Redline with Zachary Beus.

Whereas Precinct offers a high-energy vibe, Redline will be more of a relaxed, casual lounge setting that will cater to Downtown professionals on their way home from work, said Alpuche. He added that Redline will offer a happy hour menu from 5-8 p.m. on weekdays with drink specials and small bites.

Stephens said he doesn’t view the coming addition as competition. Instead, he thinks there is more than enough of a clientele to go around. If anything, he said, having two bars will further solidify Downtown’s reputation as a gay destination.

Precinct is at 357 S. Broadway, (213) 628-3112 or precinctdtla.com. heidi@downtownnews.com

Downtown Groups Get County Arts Funds

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he Los Angeles County Arts Commission has announced the recipients of $4.5 million in two-year grants, and a number of Downtown entities are among the nonprofits that will benefit. Altogether 184 arts organizations in the county will receive funds. Grants start at $3,000 and go up to the $162,700 given to Downtown-based L.A. Opera. Other Central City recipients include Center Theatre Group ($150,400), Little Tokyo’s Japanese American Cultural & Community Center ($50,000), City West’s Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles ($43,300) and the A+D Architecture and Design Museum ($23,500), which opens its new Arts District home next month. “Sixty percent of applicants have increased award amounts from

the last time these organizations were funded,” said Claire Peeps, president of the Arts Commission. “Almost half of these grants will support ongoing salaries or new jobs, so arts organizations will not only be able to provide a diverse range of cultural services for residents, they’ll also be employing them.”

L.A. Conservancy Offering Family Tours Of Union Station

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reservationist organization the Los Angeles Conservancy has long been giving tours of Downtown landmarks. This month, there’s a special addition: youth and family walking tours of Union Station each Sunday at 11 a.m. The hour-long tour will start in the lobby off Alameda Street and a guide will highlight the history and architecture of the 1939 rail station. The tour is designed to introduce children to historic preservation, and is recommended for children ages 5 and up and their families. The Conservancy, meanwhile, is gearing up to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its walking tour program next month.

Union Station tours are $10 for adults ($5 for Conservancy members) and $3.50 for children 17 and under. Reservations at laconservancy.org.

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hen Vibay Chandran and T.J. Weisbecker moved back to Los Angeles from Dallas two years ago, they drove a U-Haul with their dog Saraswati and three goldfish, Machii, Iyengar and Kali, in a glass tank on the cab between them.

They settled in Pasadena, but when it came time to move again a year later, they began looking Downtown after having trouble finding dog-friendly housing elsewhere.

“People say there are more dogs Downtown than people, and they might be right,” says Weisbecker, a doctoral student.

Weisbecker and Chandran, a yoga instructor, have been in the Historic Core for a year.

They have converted half of their loft into a combination art gallery and yoga studio.

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1. Under a flowing white canopy on the patio is a lounge area piled with colorful cushions made by Chandran’s mother. “She visits from India every year, and as is typical Indian custom, she stays for months at a time,” Chandran says. “As an American, it was hard to get used to,” Weisbecker responds, adding, “But now I think it’s lovely.” Sewing colorful shams on to pillows that Chandran finds at thrift stores is one of the activities they do together.

2. “This is an example of the kind of creative living that is only possible Downtown,” Weisbecker says, pointing to an abstract black and white canvas above the fish tank.

Shortly after moving in, he saw a painting propped in a hallway in the building. After a few days, he left a note with his phone number on it expressing his interest. He got a call from the owner, then, “I negotiated to buy the painting, carried it upstairs and painted over it. A few weeks later, as I was walking Sara, I came across more canvases discarded in the alleyway behind the building.” Their walls are now covered with reclaimed canvases displaying paintings by the two.

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3. “We have a gazillion Buddhas,” Chandran laughs. One large white porcelain Buddha sits cross-legged on the patio. A birthday gift from Weisbecker’s Catholic parents, it wasn’t a typical thing for them to purchase. “It meant a lot that they gave this to us,” Weisbecker says. The statue rests before a gilded frame that Vibay found at a Salvation Army in Texas. He removed the artwork, painted the frame in gold and green and strung the inside with moss.

4. “I came home one day, and there was a rainbow in the kitchen,” Chandran says. A row of books organized by color adorns the top of their kitchen cupboards. “I walked through the labyrinth of books at The Last Bookstore, where they have their books organized by color, and then I came home and did this,” Weisbecker says. “I’m always finding inspiration Downtown.”

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Hal Bastian

Downtown,” Bastian says proudly.

These days he runs his own Downtown consulting business, Hal Bastian Inc., and Douglas Building continues to reside in the Douglas Building, al Bastian is one of the most recogniz- an 1898 edifice at Second and Spring streets. able people in Downtown Los Angeles. He remains effusive about the community, A longtime executive with the Down- and about the things in his home. town Center Business Improvement District, he led hundreds of tours of the area for pro- 1. A bronze statuette dubbed “Buddy and spective businesses and residents. “I brought Me” sits on Bastian’s coffee table. The over 300 bars, restaurants and businesses to work by Chris Keene, who created the

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bronze sculpture in Manulife Plaza at Fifth and Figueroa streets, depicts Bastian with his late dog Buddy. “He was known as the first dog of Downtown,” Bastian said.

“When we were trying to lease a building near Skid Row, we knew we would have to do something creative to entice people, something to make us different than everybody else. Since Buddy had already been coming to work with me for years, I thought, why not make this building dog-

friendly? Why not make Downtown dogfriendly?”

2. A large photograph of the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building at Fourth and Main streets, the epicenter of the Downtown residential revival that began in 2000, hangs on one of Bastian’s walls. Taken by Perry C. Riddle and titled “Double Sun,” the lighting and shadows in the building’s windows create a surreal, almost multi-dimensional effect. “It

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Continued from page 10 captures the sun rising in the east, lighting the lens by reflection from the west,” Bastian says. “Riddle installed it here himself, and it’s never going to move. I love it.”

3. Two stately pine end-tables, a dresser and a chest of drawers, all with the clean, sleek lines typical of mid-century furniture, stand in Bastian’s bedroom and living areas. “My mother bought them in 1959, and then gave them to me when I was 24.

She got them at Van Gorder Furniture. I can’t tell you if it’s still in business. It was on Van Nuys Boulevard,” he said. Later, he looked it up. “It still exists!” he exclaimed.

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4. A beige, four-step carpeted staircase leads to Bastian’s bed. “I had this made for Buddy, because as he got older he couldn’t jump up on the bed anymore.” Buddy passed away in 2008, and Bastian’s canine companion these days is Scooter. He called to the dog, who instantly leaped onto the bed. “Scooter doesn’t need the stairs,” Bastian says. “I just keep the stairs because they remind me of Buddy.”

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icolas Libert and his partner Emmanuel Renoird moved into The Emerson on Bunker Hill after it opened last year. The pair, who own the Olive Street art and design store Please Do Not Enter, are eager to bring the European designers and artists they love to Los Angeles. “Angelenos love Paris, and Parisians love Los Angeles,” Libert says. “It is very exotic to us, and at the same time has huge potential

to be more connected to the rest of the world.”

1. Libert and Renoird’s panoramic view of the San Gabriel Mountains, scraped by the edges of Walt Disney Concert Hall, can best be taken in by a chair near the window that, like the concert hall, is so stylized it’s almost intimidating. The cushioning is made entirely of white foam piping that juts out

like branches of coral or magnified strands of dog hair. “This is an artist’s take on the Bertoia chair, a very important chair in design history,” Libert says. “All of design is made by building from the past to create something new.” He pauses, then looking at the chair, adds, “You wouldn’t think so, but it’s very comfortable.”

2. On a wall near the kitchen hangs an egg-shaped sculpture by artist Arik Levy. It is made of blown glass and reflects the view from the windows on the opposite side of the room in an irregular, undulating surface. “The look of the piece

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4. “This is not a sculpture. It’s a vase,” Libert says as he slides a delicate, hollow hexagonal glass bowl off of a silvered glass pod — the vase — in the center. It was also made

by Levy and, remarks Libert, “It can be arranged three ways, creating different pieces of art that hold different lengths of flowers.” He balances the bowl atop the pod, creating a tower, then turns the bowl around, placing its smaller opening down, and sets the vase inside. “Design and art, function and beauty,” says Libert. “This vase is so interesting, even though it’s just to hold flowers.”

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3. During the period that the space that would become Please Do Not Enter was being readied, Libert and Renoird had some unexpected finds. “When we renovated, they drilled out the floor, and these came out,” Libert says, pointing to a pair of small cylindrical statuettes that now stand on a window ledge. They are made of concrete and rigid insulating foam. “We picked them out of the construction site. They became symbols, like two totems made of poor materials, which have been elevated to contemporary sculpture, representing the history of a place.”

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The Class of 2015 A Look at Seven JustOpened or Soon-to-Arrive Downtown Apartment Complexes

By Jon Regardie t’s no secret that Downtown Los Angeles is booming. The area is teeming with bars, and every week seems to bring word of a new restaurant. The nightlife scene is thriving, as additions such as the concert venues The Regent and the Teragram Ballroom come online.

Still, the biggest growth is in the residential sector, and projects are opening across the community. In the process, thousands of people are moving into Downtown.

All of this means that those who hope to live in Downtown have a lot of choice when it comes to picking their next apartment. In the following pages, we run down the offerings at seven either recently opened or soon-to-debut buildings, everything from luxury residences to mid-priced developments to one lowincome project in a gorgeously restored building. They are arriving everywhere, from South Park to the Financial District to the Historic Core.

Below are some of the highlights of the Class of 2015.

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Where: 909 W. Temple St. Residences: 526 apartments (the total when the second phase is complete late this year) Opened: April Rents: There are 15 floor plans. Studios start at $1,790 for a 478-squarefoot unit; one-bedrooms go from $1,926 for 646 square feet of space; two-bedroom, two-bath homes begin at $2,342 (858 square feet); and three-bedroom apartments, which measure 1,267 square feet, go for up to $3,860.

Developer: The prolific Geoff Palmer, of G.H. Palmer Associates, who has created thousands of rental units in Downtown Los Angeles. The Da Vinci follows the same Italian/Mediterranean style as his nearby Medici, Orsini, Piero and Visconti complexes.

The Facts: The Da Vinci became national news on Dec. 8, 2014, when one of its two buildings was engulfed in flames in the middle of the night.

The structure, in the framing stage, burned to the ground. Palmer, however, was undeterred, and placed the finishing touches on the six-story edifice north of Temple Street. Work is now progressing on the building south of Temple and next to the 110 Freeway, and Palmer expects it to open by the end of the year. In May, 56-year-old Los Angeles resident Dawud Abduwali was arrested and charged with arson. No motive for the crime has been revealed.

Amenities: Like all Palmer projects, the Da Vinci is full of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces. There’s a junior Olympic-size swimming pool and a smaller rooftop pool, a stocked gym with exercise equipment and a full-size basketball/volleyball court. A combo movie theater/karaoke room with plush seating offers in-house entertainment, and there is a business center. Apartments contain microwave ovens and Whirlpool stainless steel appliances, as well as ample closets and Italian marble vanities.

Hey Neighbors: Nestled in the shoulder where the 110 and 101 freeways meet, the closest cultural attraction is the Music Center and Grand Park; keep going south on Grand Avenue and you reach Cal Plaza and its food court and the outdoor concert venue the Watercourt. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a couple blocks east of the Da Vinci.

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On the Other Hand: Like many Palmer projects, this one abuts a freeway, and there is little else with walking distance beyond the abovementioned neighbors. There will also be daytime construction noise in the near future as the second phase is rebuilt.

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Where: 430 S. Broadway Residences: 58 live/work units Opened: March Rents: Prices fall in the middle of what is being asked in an increasingly expensive Downtown. Residences are 355 to almost 1,600 square feet. Rents start at $1,155 and go up to $3,750.

Developer: This transformation of an aged Historic Core building comes from a developer with a track record of transforming aged Historic Core buildings. ICO Development got

on the Downtown map in 2005 when it opened the mammoth Pacific Electric Lofts at 610 S. Main St. It also converted the Mercantile Lofts at 620 S. Main St. The Facts: The Broadway Lofts occupies a 1906 structure originally known as the Bumiller Building. ICO acquired the property, which had been largely vacant for several decades, in 2012.

An extensive renovation followed, with Downtown-based architecture firm Omgivning handling the designs. The residences vary in style and floor plan: There are 19 studios with lofty ceilings and three townhouse-style units on the ground floor.

In a unique twist, old light wells in the property allowed for the installation of steel-and-glass catwalks, which maximized the interior space of some residences.

Amenities: A rooftop gym has free weights, cardio equipment and a stretching/yoga area. There is also a lounge with a barbeque and succulent garden.

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Hey Neighbors: The Broadway resurgence is well underway.

The Broadway Lofts is a short walk from the foodie destination Grand Central Market, and neighborhood favorite Maccheroni Republic is at 332 S. Broadway. The new project is also on the same block as The Judson, a 60-apartment complex that opened in 2008. Walk south and, after passing the Spring Arcade Building, you reach the hipster haven of Ninth and Broadway, complete with the Ace Hotel.

On the Other Hand: The street’s resurgence hasn’t fully taken hold. Broadway’s collection of gorgeous former movie palaces are dark more than they are active, and though some seating has been added to the street in the effort to bolster the pedestrian experience, the momentum is far greater on Main and Spring streets.

To Live There: (213) 488-8430 or broadwayloftsdtla.com.

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Where: 888 S. Olive St. Residences: 303 one- to three-bedroom fully furnished apartments Opened: June Rents: Prices start at $5,000 a month for residences that range from 710-2,025 square feet. The one-bedrooms can sleep up to four people, while the largest units hold up to eight inhabitants.

Developer: Vancouver, Canada-based Onni Group, which created a similar project in Vancouver in 2009. Onni has two other projects coming to Downtown: a traditional apartment building and a mixed-use retail and commercial office space.

The Facts: Whereas most developers

want long-term residents, Onni’s project is a corporate housing endeavor designed for people staying one to three months. Pitched to travelers in town for work or a convention, or students attending USC and FIDM, the 33-story edifice is one of just two corporate housing high-rises in Downtown (the other being TenTen Wilshire in City West).

Onni spent $200 million on the steeland-glass project.

Amenities: All units have a fully outfitted kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living area, and the appliances are highend brands such as Sub Zero and Bosch.

Each residence has a balcony with patio furniture, and there is a 50-inch TV in every living room and a 40-inch television in all bedrooms. The pet-friendly building includes a 70-foot outdoor pool, a hot tub, a gym and a full-size basketball

court.

Hey Neighbors: The project at the southern edge of the Financial District is a short walk from a lot of activity in Downtown Los Angeles. The restaurant row of Seventh Street is a couple blocks to the north, the hip corner of Ninth Street and Broadway is two blocks to the east and the Ralphs Fresh Fare is two blocks in the other direction. L.A. Live and the Convention Center are also an easy walk.

On the Other Hand: The all-inclusive living arrangement means you need some deep pockets to stay here (or your boss is footing the bill). Additionally, while there is a lot to do in all directions, Level’s block has few enticing options.

To Live There: (213) 873-8400 or stayinglevel.com/los-angeles.

decorative rooftop finials. The façade also boasts intricate stone carvings, diverse textures and multi-hued brickwork. Cool fact: The building was originally conceived by Florence C. Casler, a rare woman developer at the turn of the 20th century.

Amenities: The residences will have original concrete floors and walls, which have been touched up but still feature old blemishes. Units also feature sleek dark cabinets and granite countertops.

Marble subway-tile backsplashes and penny tile tub enclosures in the bathroom continue the modern-but-classic aesthetic of the building. The project will include a fitness center and a rooftop deck with a spa.

Hey Neighbors: Although the Fashion District holds relatively little housing compared to other Downtown districts, the Garment Lofts has two residential neighbors in the multi-building Santee Court and, at 308 E. Ninth St., the Emil Brown Lofts. The employment hub of the California Market Center is about a block away, and other walkable options include Pattern Bar, Wood Spoon, Terroni and Poppy + Rose.

On the Other Hand: Ready to walk to the places mentioned above, or any-

where else in Downtown? Good, because the Garment Lofts lacks in-building parking. Management is working out a deal to let residents with cars park in a nearby lot.

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Garment Lofts Where: 217 E. Eighth St. Residences: 77 apartments Opening: Scheduled for August Rents: Residences with an open, loftstyle layout average 750 square feet and rents will start at $1,850. Some of the six two-story penthouses with private balconies will go for $5,000.

Developer: Bel Air-based Capital Foresight, under head Naty Saidoff, has been an eager investor in Downtown, scooping up about a dozen local holdings. Other area properties in the portfolio include Main Street’s Santa Fe Lofts and the under-construction Title Insurance Building. Garment Lofts is the developer’s first completed adaptive reuse project, though soon to follow will be another Fashion District development, the Maxfield Lofts, across the street at 819 S. Santee St. The Facts: The Garment Lofts marks a fantastic turnaround of the 1926 Capitol Garment Building. The 12-floor structure is a standout example of Gothic Revival architecture, and Capital Foresight, which spent $20 million on the project, won praise from preservationists for steps such as replacing the property’s

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Where: 939 S. Hill St. Residences: 282 studio to two-bedroom apartments Opened: January Rents: The smallest units listed on the project’s website, studios that are 493-634 square feet, start at $2,105. Twobedroom, two-bath homes measuring 1,147 square feet go for up to $3,690.

Developer: Houston-based Hanover Company. The Texans are bullish on Downtown, having opened the 26-story 717 Olympic Tower in 2008. They also have two other projects similar to Hanover South Park scheduled to open in the next nine months: A block to the west is Hanover Grand Avenue, a 274-apartment complex that is slated to open in January. Literally next door to Hanover South Park is the Hanover Olympic, which will bring 263 apartments when it comes online next March. That will mean 800 new housing units from the company in a little more than a year.

The Facts: The seven-story structure has a clean exterior design from architecture firm TCA. It is also an early arrival in a South Park residential boom. In addition to Hanover’s pair of projects, developer Lennar Multifamily is erecting a seven-story, 201-apartment building at the southwest corner of Olympic Boulevard and Olive Street. Developer Mack Urban is building a pair of mid-rise rental structures on a site bordered by Pico Boulevard and Olive and Hill streets.

Amenities: Units have 10-foot ceilings and residences hold either a full walk-out balcony or a small “Juliet” balcony. A courtyard on the west side of the building features a small pool and massive plush lounge chairs. The building holds a 24-hour fitness center and a clubroom with a kitchen, pool table and TV lounge. There are two outdoor decks on the sixth floor.

Hey Neighbors: Good eats are steps away, as the Stocking Frame restaurant is right next to the building on Hill Street. The Mayan and Belasco theaters are a block to the south, and L.A. Live, with its restaurants, multiplex and concert venues, is just a few minutes walk to the west.

On the Other Hand: Do you like construction noise?

For the next year at least, some nearby sidewalks will be closed and work vehicles will fill the streets as the aforementioned projects are built.

To Live There: (866) 418-2568 or hanoversouthpark.com.

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Eighth & Grand Where: 770 S. Grand Ave. Residences: 700 apartments Opening: Scheduled for September Rents: Apartments are studios to three-bedrooms (“singles” to “triples” in Eighth & Grand parlance), average 706 square feet and, here’s a twist, they have names! The Walker starts at 516 square feet and $2,030. A three-bedroom, two-bath unit dubbed The Bradley goes for up to $4,370. A two-floor 1,794-square-foot home called The Eisen IV rents for up to $5,170.

Developer: San Francisco-based Carmel Part-

ners is a national real estate firm with projects in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Hawaii and other locales. Eighth & Grand is its first Downtown endeavor, but in March it broke ground on a second development, a 27-story rental tower with 363 units at 801 S. Olive St. It is expected to open in the third quarter of 2017.

The Facts: Carmel’s three-acre project in the southern part of the Financial District is the single biggest development in Downtown.

Although all 700 units will be complete at about the same time, the project will open in phases through early 2016. The developer sped up construction by using a unique, proprietary system called ConX. Created by a

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Bay Area-based company, it works like an erector set of sorts, using precisely prefabricated steel beams and connections that essentially snap into place. It also allowed the seven-story project to have a glass and steel exterior, rather than the bland stucco common in buildings of that height.

Amenities: Eighth & Grand’s retail space will be anchored by one of Downtown’s most eagerly awaited additions: a 42,000-squarefoot Whole Foods, scheduled to debut on Nov. 4. The living space includes an outdoor rooftop pool with a sundeck, another pool in a courtyard with cabanas, a common area with a kitchen, a pet wash station, a 5,400-square-foot gym, a “sky lounge” and 24-hour concierge service. Units will have nine-foot ceilings and floor-to-ceiling win-

dows, Italian cabinets and Frigidaire appliances.

Hey Neighbors: Residents who work in the Financial District can leave the car in the garage, and all inhabitants have only a short walk to the abundant neighborhood eateries and The Bloc, the remade Macy’s Plaza mall that will be highlighted by an Alamo Drafthouse movie theater. The Historic Core and South Park are also within walking distance.

On the Other Hand: Eighth & Grand inhabitants better be the type who like people, because with 700 apartments, humans will be everywhere. Also, the rents will be some of the highest in Downtown.

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New Music Center Program Brings Four Dance Companies to Unlikely Spaces

By Eddie Kim atching dance usually means sitting still and passive in a darkened theater. The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, eager to show the public a new side of contemporary dance, is bucking that notion this week as it launches a series that seeks to offer both quality and quantity.

In Moves After Dark, dancers from four local companies will strut their stuff in unconventional “venues” like the staircase of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Mark Taper Forum pond and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s Founders’ Room. Audiences will be split into three small groups, roaming to watch three different companies, before coming together for a final performance in the Music Center Plaza.

There isn’t a darkened theater in sight.

On top of showcasing a new format for soaking in dance, Moves After Dark aims to infuse the Music Center campus with energy on nights that normally don’t have programming. The shows take place at 8:30 p.m. on Monday-Tuesday, July 13-14, and then again July 20-21. Each $25 ticket to the roughly two-hour event includes a drink voucher for those who want to sip a cocktail while watching the performers’ graceful moves.

Capacity is 400 people each night.

Moves After Dark is the final production spearheaded by Music Center Vice President of Programming Renae Williams Niles, who is departing the organization this month after nearly 11 years for a job at the University of Southern California’s fledgling Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. A former dancer herself, Williams Niles began mulling the idea to present local dance companies in a site-specific, clever way about four years ago.

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“Part of it was inspired by the plans for the 50th anniversary of the Music Center,” Williams Niles said. “I thought it could be a great way to highlight certain architectural elements and different spaces that are less traditionally utilized in the Music Center campus.”

Williams Niles selected four groups that she believed would be challenged and intrigued by the Moves After Dark concept. She decided

dler’s role in the inception of the Music Center.”

Bodytraffic, which performs the finale each night as all three groups come together, is returning to the Music Center with a retooled version of a performance from last summer’s Dance Camera West festival. The show unfolds on and around an angular, nest-like sculpture created by Los Angeles artist Gustavo Godoy that stands two stories tall in the center of the

The company Bodytraffic will perform on and around a giant sculpture set up in the middle of the Music Center Plaza as part of the new sitespecific program Moves After Dark. It launches Monday, July 13.

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to bring in troupes led by women and with experience touring and performing around the country: Ate9, Bodytraffic, Contra-Tiempo and the Lula Washington Dance Theater (which Williams Niles danced with during her undergraduate years at USC).

“They’re each pursuing different qualities of movement, different aesthetics in their dancing,” Williams Niles said. “As for them being female-led, for me, it harkens to Dorothy Chan-

Music Center Plaza.

There isn’t a more exciting time for dance in L.A. than now, said company Co-Director Lillian Barbeito. She’s optimistic that Moves After Dark will have a lasting impact on both dance newbies and knowledgeable audiences.

“With this site-specific format, people will never see these locations the same way again,” Barbeito said. “There’s always going to be the imagery of the dancers in the space, whether

it’s the plaza or the concert hall. It permanently changes the space.”

Moves After Dark is an experiment not only for audiences, but for the dancers, too. The format fosters a sense of closeness, literally and metaphorically, between the performer and the observer, said Ate9 Artistic Director Danielle Agami. Her company is taking on the one interior space in the lineup, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion’s regal Founders’ Room.

“The setup challenges the audience and the dancer in an essential, intimate way. It brings something a stage takes away,” Agami mused.

“On stage, you don’t feel as vulnerable.”

Moves After Dark acknowledges the potential of the Music Center as Downtown continues to become a round-the-clock hub of art and entertainment, said Williams Niles. All of the cultural organizations in the Central City are figuring out how to provide engagement every day of the week, she added.

For the Music Center, that means offering alternatives to buying a ticket to see a show in a large, traditional venue, which often only support short performance runs.

“We often don’t have the chance for word of mouth to transform and spread from one week to the next,” Williams Niles noted. “My hope is that over time, because Moves After Dark has a much smaller audience capacity, the ability for us to do shows over multiple weeks grows.”

Even after 50 years, Downtown’s grand dame of the arts has to continue to learn new tricks in order to thrive.

Moves After Dark runs Monday-Tuesday, July 13-14 and 20-21 at 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 9727211 or musiccenter.org. eddie@downtownnews.com

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At MOCA, the Art Gets Loud Museum Brings Back Its Step and Repeat Series With Comedians, Music, Poetry and More

By Heidi Kulicke n most days, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is a place to check out paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations. For three nights this week, however, the galleries will become a more active and much louder place.

The second installment of MOCA’s Step and Repeat series takes place July 17-19. From 6-11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 6-10 p.m. on Sunday, the cavernous Little Tokyo venue will be filled with poets, comedians, dancers, musicians and more.

About 1,500 people attended the event last year, said Emma Reeves, the creative director of MOCAtv, who organized Step and Repeat.

Reeves expects a similar turnout this week.

“To just do it once seemed crazy to us. Why not build on what you’ve created and keep it going?” Reeves said.

Through Step and Repeat, MOCA hopes to attract a new audience to the Geffen Contemporary, Reeves said. Although the venue normally hosts large displays of visual art, including the recently concluded William Pope.L: Trinket show, highlighted by a giant, fraying American flag, MOCA is trying to highlight other art forms people might not normally seek out in a museum. That, said Reeves, allows MOCA to interact with the community on a different level.

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art. It’s just a fantastic way to hang out and enjoy live performances,” Reeves said.

Step and Repeat is designed to appeal to a broad audience, and the three nights have a sort of grab bag, mix-and-match quality.

Friday, for example, features, among others, the psychedelic rock band Wand, Iranian singer and electronica artist Lafawndah, poet Raquel Gutierrez and comedy duo Jibz Cameron and Kate Bertland, who will premiere a newly commissioned piece dubbed “Comedy’scool.”

The Saturday lineup includes poet Nathaniel Mackey, artist and DJ Juliana Huxtable and the comedian Casey Jane Ellison. Among those appearing Sunday are James Fauntleroy, who will premiere a live musical score with a backing band set to animation, stand-up comedian Brent Weinbach, and Nao Bustamante, who will perform “Deathbed,” based on her pilgrimage to see the corpse of the late salsa queen Celia Cruz.

Also performing Saturday is comedian Baron Vaughn, who appears in the new Netflix series “Grace and Frankie” with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. Vaughn started doing standup while attending theater school in Boston.

He described his style as “slightly experimental.”

“My comedy is in-between,” said Vaughn, who has appeared on late-night shows with Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson. “It’s not so weird that it’s considered

weird, and not so normal that it’s considered normal.”

Vaughn acknowledged that stand-up comedy is not the first thing that comes to mind at a performance art event. Still, he believes comedy is every bit an art form and deserves recognition as such.

He went on to compare comedy to music, saying both have sub-genres. If someone doesn’t like hip-hop, for example, it wouldn’t make sense to give up on music completely, he said, and the same goes for comedians.

“Over the past few years there’s been a resurgence of comedy, and a movement of people who are recognizing that it has artistic merit,” Vaughn added.

Another participant this week is dancer and choreographer Adam Linder, who will present a three-day performance of his piece “Some Proximity.” The work is inspired by writer Jonathan P. Watts’ reflections on performance art, and Linder and fellow dancer Justin F. Kennedy will interpret the text through movement.

Linder praised MOCA for the return of Step and Repeat, and said it is particularly important in Los Angeles, which he believes lacks the kind of reputation for live performance that New York has.

“Any presence of performance and building the community around it through live art is a good thing for this city,” said Linder, who divides his time between Los Angeles and Berlin. “It activates the practice of performance art and gives visibility to artists.”

Step and Repeat is $12 per night or $30 for all three nights. Admission is free to MOCA members.

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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA will hold the three-day live performance event Step and Repeat on Friday-Sunday, July 17-19. Among the performers are Nao Bustamante (shown here), comedian Baron Vaughn and choreographer Adam Linder.

Step and Repeat will run Friday-Sunday, July 17-19, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N. Central Ave., (213) 626-6222 or moca.org/ stepandrepeat. heidi@downtownnews.com

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Outdoor Prison Theater, a Beat-Heavy Night and More Downtown Summer Fun

Now through July 26, Downtown drama voyeurs can look on as an emotionally damaged truck driver and a female sexual assault victim get drunk together and spill their mutually congruent alienation. Apologies if you thought this was our roundabout way of saying that your favorite dive bar is closing at the end of the month, but we are actually talking about the Los Angeles Theatre Center’s staging of playwright John Patrick Shanley’s evocative Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. It opened last week, and every ThursdaySaturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m., the LATC transforms into a shady watering hole where past demons run amok. At 514 S. Spring St., (213) 489-0994 or thelatc.org.

ThuRSDay, JuLy 16 Silicon Beach and Beyond City Club, 555 S. Flower St., (213) 628-8141 or townhall-la.org.

Consider the phrase Good Intentions. What are the most important set of letters in those words? Sure, “good” is good, but “ten” is better, as that is the number of bands you’ll be able to see for $10 on Saturday, July 18, at The Regent. The night will feature acts of beat-heavy electronica, including Santa Ana-based Free the Robots (shown here), MC Supernatural, LA Symphony and First Dirt. Who plays when after the doors open at 9 p.m.? Literally no one knows, as The Regent’s website boasts “NO headliners. Fans spin the Wheel of Talent to decide who plays next.” At 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheater.com.

Amidst the subterranean retail and food service hub that is FIGat7th you’ll find a run of free music this summer.

Arts Brookfield’s Downtown Festival brings indie rock standouts Superhumanoids (shown here) and Tropics to the outdoor space on Friday, July 17, at 8 p.m. for “a night with innovative leisure,” which happens to be a truism hidden in a reference to an independent record label. Preceding the big show in the courtyard will be a special installment of Fusicology Fridays. This month’s musical bonanza features a DJ tribute to the one and only Stevie Wonder. Better still, those in attendance will also have a smattering of happy hour drink and food specials to choose from. At 735 S. Figueroa St., (213) 955-7150 or figat7th.com.

TuESDay, JuLy 14 To Live and Eat in L.A. Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7500 or lfla.org.

7:15 p.m.: On the strength of his latest study of culinary ephemera, the Central Library's To Live and Dine in L.A., cultural historian and USC prof Josh Kun joins a panel of farmers and food activists to discuss the nuts and bolts of hunger in Los Angeles. It is part of the Aloud series.

WEDNESDay, JuLy 15 The 2015 Espys Microsoft Theatre, 777 Chick Hearn Court, (213) 763-6030 or microsofttheeatre.com.

5 p.m.: Your favorite athletes come together to get prizes and pat each other on the back as they hand out awards.

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The band Ethio-Cali has long proven that the thousands of miles and gaping cultural differences that separate California and Ethiopia are best spanned musically. The rhythms of quintessential ’60s and ’70s Ethiopian music blend with American jazz sensibilities with this Los Angeles-grown act. On Sunday, July 19, at 5 p.m., Ethio-Cali will inhabit the James Irvine Japanese Garden in Little Tokyo’s Japanese American Cultural & Community Center as part of the JACCC’s “Summer in the Garden” program. Tickets are a mere $10 and the vibe promises to be nice and mellow. At 244 S. San Pedro St., (213) 628-2725 or jaccc.org.

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MONDay, JuLy 13 Write Club Bootleg, 2220 Beverly Blvd., (213) 389-3856 or bootlegtheater.org.

7 p.m.: Writers face off against one another in a battle of wits and words that leaves no stone unturned, no ego unscathed and no simile unsaid.

Despite intense efforts to decrease the population, California’s prisons hover around 135% of total bed capacity. The brutal dimensions achieve new clarity on Friday, July 17, at 8 p.m. as Grand Performances hosts Roots member Dice Raw’s The Last Jimmy. The hip-hop musical at the Cal Plaza Watercourt ventures into the conceptual realm of mass incarceration through the eyes of young African Americans who, incidentally, are six and a half times more likely to be thrown in the clink than their Caucasian counterparts. The show, unlike the subject matter, is free. At 350 S. Grand Ave., (213) 6872190 or grandperformances.org.

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Street Food Cinema Presents: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Exposition Park 700 Exposition Park Dr. or streetfoodcinema.com Exposition Park will host an outdoor 40th anniversary screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday, July 18, with live music and food trucks prior to the film. The event is part of Street Food Cinema’s music, movie and food truck line-up at various parks throughout the summer and fall. Food trucks will arrive at 5:30 p.m. and include Meet the Greek, No Toro Truck, Nitropod and more. Live music from the band The Kendricks will begin at 6:30, and the film starts at 8:30. Advance tickets for reserved seats are $17 or $20 at the door. Non-reserved seats are $5 cheaper.

FIGat7th Downtown Festival Fridays 735 S. Figueroa St., (213) 955-7150 or artsbrookfield.com Arts Brookfield presents a free live music festival every Friday night through August at the FIGat7th shopping center plaza. Friday, July 17, the groups Superhumanoids and Tropics will perform from 4-10 p.m.

Friday Night Flicks at Pershing Square 523 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or pershing.square@ lacity.org Pershing Square’s free summer movie series will feature the 2014 reboot of the movie Godzilla on Friday, July 17, at dusk. Bring a blanket or lawn chair and a picnic if desired.

Well behaved dogs on a leash are welcome.

L.A.’s Largest Mixer XVII 700 W. 32nd St., (323) 230-5656 or lamixer.com Join Los Angeles area chambers and business organizations at L.A.’s Largest Mixer XVII, taking place at the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center July 16 from 5-9 p.m. Mingle with hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of business people representing a wide variety of industries and companies in and around Southern California. The 17th annual event is a great opportunity to reach small and large companies, meet prospective clients, generate new leads and renew business relationships. Admission is $20 per person.

Dames ‘N Games Sports Bar & Grill: MMA Girl Cage Fighting 2319 E. Washington Blvd., (323) 589-2220 or damesngames.net Spearmint Rhino’s Dames ‘N Games Sports Bar & Grill will host an MMA Girl Cage Fighting event on July 20. The event is part of an ongoing summer tournament through Aug. 17.

The girls will compete for $3,000 in cash and prizes.

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11:30 a.m.: The organization Town Hall-Los Angeles goes tech as representatives of X Prize, Wallaby Financial, TaskUs and Beacon Management Group hash out the impact that Silicon Beach and tech in general have in Los Angeles. Lunch will be served buffet style!

Friday, July 17 Dance Downtown Music Center Plaza, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

7 p.m.: Curry favor with tonight’s DJ as he bumps out Bollywood jams. Think of it as an opportunity to receive free instruction in the hottest moves Mumbai has to offer.

Step and Repeat MOCA Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., (213) 626-6222 or moca.org.

6 p.m.-11 p.m.: The Geffen Contemporary again hosts a multimedia entertainment celebration as musicians, DJs and a truck full of other assorted performance artists fill the space with cutting-edge culture. It also runs 6-11 p.m. on Saturday and 6-10 p.m. on Sunday. See story p. 21.

ROCK, POP & JAZZ Blue Whale 123 Astronaut E. S. Onizuka St., (213) 620-0908 or bluewhalemusic.com.

July 13: Natalie Cressman.

July 14: Tom Luer and Project Popular.

July 15: Andrew Lessman, Richard Sears and Greg Uhlmann.

July 16: John Beasley.

July 17-18: Walter Smith III Group.

July 19: Q morrow.

Club Nokia 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-7000 or clubnokia.com.

July 13, 8 p.m.: Bring your trap queen to check out Fetty Wap among many other rising stars at the XXL Freshmen Tour.

July 18, 8 p.m.: Tonight’s stand-up comedienne Lisa Lampanelli will not be sweet or cuddly. After all, her website is insultcomic.com.

Escondite 410 Boyd St., (213) 626-1800 or theescondite.com.

July 13: Should the Jazzaholics really be hanging out in a live music venue? That seems contrary to recovery.

July 14: Jeremiah & The Red Eyes, a musical lesson about late night trans-oceanic flights.

July 15: A night of diads with Matthew Zeltzer Duo and Second Cousins.

July 16: Kat Meyers & The Buzzards: sonic scavengers.

July 17: The Get Down Boys are way down with bluegrass. Way. July 19: RT N the 44s are more than willing to explain the birds and bees to your younger children.

Exchange LA 618 S. Spring St., (213) 627-8070 or exchangela.com.

July 17: Ruby Rose.

July 18: Sam Paganini.

Grand Performances California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., (213) 687-2190 or grandperformances.org.

July 17, 12 p.m.: Thalma de Freitas practically exudes the culture of her native Brazil to the point that nearby 9-5ers will hallucinate themselves on Ipanema Beach with a caipirinha in hand when, in fact, they’ll be wading in the Watercourt with a bottle of coconut water.

July 18, 8 p.m.: Colombian cumbia music from Qndatropica features a guest appearance by Quantic and an AARP-sponsored bike valet.

Pershing Square 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

July 15, 12 p.m.: Blindingly polished pop rock hustlers Jeremy Buck and the Bang promise an even ratio of hair product to decibels.

July 16, 8:30 p.m.: Cecilia Noel slaps salsa rhythms on soul music.

July 18, 8:30 p.m.: Come ask Starship who “built this city on rock and roll.” Before that, ask Matha Davis and the Motels what happened “suddenly, last summer.”

Redwood Bar and Grill 316 W. Second St., (213) 652-4444 or theredwoodbar.com.

July 13: The Has Beens.

July 14: Voice of Addiction, Hands Like Bricks and The Secondaries.

July 16: The Pretty Flowers, Shirley Rolls, Sam Vicari, One High Five and The 87s.

July 17: Mink Daggers, Crazy Squeeze and The Zero Class.

July 19, 3 p.m.: Guitars A Go Go. The Regent 448 S. Main St. or theregenttheatre.com.

July 15, 8 p.m.: It’s going to get loud and a little throaty with Shellac’s post hardcore.

For the cognoscenti, this is a Steve Albini band.

July 16, 8 p.m.: Tiger and Woods headline tonight’s installment of A Club Called Rhonda.

July 18, 8 p.m.: Ten acts for ten bucks with the dub heavy Good Intentions.

Seven Grand 515 W. Seventh St., (213) 614-0737 or sevengrand.la.

July 13: Leave the skates at home. Ian Roller Jazz Jam is a static event.

July 14: The Makers are here to remind impatient Seven Grand customers that haste makes waste.

July 15: Rick Taub’s Midnight Blues Review precedes the witching hour by two hours.

July 16: The only blow Curtis Parry Jazz Cartel will be pushing is through a mouthpiece or two.

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Continued from previous page Staples Center 1111 S. Figueroa St., (213) 742-7326 or staplescenter.com.

July 18, 5 p.m.: Those who listen to 107.1 FM will be delighted

by Reventon, an evening of contemporary Latin music.

July 19, 7 p.m.: When on stage at Staples Center, rapper J. Cole will be in a perfect position to look down on the exact spot where he spent the entire 2013 Grammy Awards show looking like a sad Muppet.

The Smell 247 S. Main St. in the alley between Spring and Main or thesmell.org.

July 17: Leaking Pigs. Yes, there really is a band named Leaking Pigs.

July 18: Busdriver, Ill Camille, Flako Siete, Asad III, Negro Galacticus.

July 19: Deadpanzies and Sloppy Jane.

FILM Ace Hotel 929 S. Broadway, (213) 623-3233 or acehotel.com.

July 19, 7 p.m.: Director Francois Ozon’s latest feature film The New Girlfriend closes out Outfest.

Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

July 13-16: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist combine forces to honor Afrika Bambaataa in Renegades of Rhythm.

Grammy Museum 800 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 765-6800 or grammymuseum.org.

July 15, 7:30 p.m.: Police guitarist Andy Summers will stick around for a Q&A after screening Can’t Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police, his tell-all doc about his erstwhile colleagues.

IMAX California Science Center, 700 State Drive, (213) 744-2019 or californiasciencecenter.org.

Galapagos 3D. If it was good enough to blow Charles Darwin’s mind, it’s probably good enough for you!

Forces of Nature promises a panoply of nature’s worst destruction.

Experience the gripping story full of hope, crushing disappointment and triumph in Hubble 3D.

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THEATER, OPERA & DANCE Bent Music Center Plaza, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 972-0777 or musiccenter.org.

July 15-18, 8 p.m., July 19, 1 and 6:30 p.m.: Get another view of Nazi Germany in Martin Sherman’s Bent. The play, which premiered on Broadway in 1979, tells the story of two gay men who were persecuted in 1930s Germany. This is the show’s first major revival in 36 years. Through Aug. 23.

Bob Baker’s Musical World Bob Baker Marionette Theater, 1345 W. First St., (213) 2509995 or bobbakermarionettes.com.

July 18-19, 2:30 p.m.: Puppets playing music. How is this different than, say, any band you hear on modern rock radio? Bob Baker’s puppets are non-sentient creatures, that’s how!

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Los Angeles Theatre Company, 514 S. Spring St., (213) 4890994 or thelatc.org.

July 16-18, 8 p.m., July 19, 3 p.m.: Immersive theater invites audience members/bar patrons to wander through an inclusive dramatic environment in a staging of John Patrick Shanley’s Danny

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Pershing Square 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

July 10, Sunset: The 2014 Godzilla reboot stomps through Pershing Square as many civic designers wish he would.

Regal Cinemas LA Live 1000 W. Olympic Blvd., (213) 763-6070 or lalive.com/movies.

Through July 16: The Gallows (12:20, 1, 2:30, 3:10, 5, 5L50, 7:20, 8:20, 9:40 and 10:40 p.m.; Minions (12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 and 10:20 p.m.); Minions 3D (12:50, 3:20, 6, 8:30 and 11:10 p.m.; in 4DX at 11:40 a.m. and 2, 4:30, 7 and 9:30 p.m.); Self/less (1:50, 4:40, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.); Magic Mike XXL (11:25 a.m. and 2:10, 5:20, 8:10 and 11 p.m.); Terminator Genisys (1:10, 4:20, 7:15 and 10:10 p.m.); Ted 2 (1:20, 4, 6:40 and 9:20 p.m.); Inside Out (1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:10 and 9:50 p.m.); Inside Out 3D (12:40, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.); Jurassic World (12:30, 3:40, 6:50 and 10 p.m.); and Jurassic World 3D (1:40, 4:50, 8 and 11:05 p.m.). Starting July 17: Ant-Man (7 p.m.); Ant-Man 3D (9 p.m. and 12 a.m.); Trainwreck (8 and 11 p.m.).

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ou remember how mom used to say, “If you don’t have something nice to say, then don’t say anything at all?” Clearly that message was lost on a young Connecticut lass named Lisa Lampanelli, and thank heavens it was.

Lampanelli has crafted a career of the caustic, adopting the nickname the Queen of Mean, and when she drops by Club Nokia on Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m., it will be part of her Leaner Meaner Tour. If you have sacred cows you’d better sacrifice them before arriving, because odds are Lampanelli will slam and slash a figure or subject you cherish deeply. Odds are also that you’ll laugh uproariously when she does it.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC Saturday, July 18 LA Chamber Choir Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 9727211 or musiccenter.org.

7 p.m.: Haydn and Vaughn Williams provide the music for tonight’s display of choral prowess.

Sunday, July 19 Seventh Annual Season Finale Concert: Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., (213) 9727211 or musiccenter.org.

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here have been many iterations and members of Starship over the years, and a few names as well (think Jefferson Starship or, oddly and briefly, Starship Jefferson). The past and legal disputes aside, what you need to know is that the Starship landing at Pershing Square on Saturday, July 18, does indeed feature frontman Mickey Thomas. They’ll be performing “We Built This City,” “Sara,” “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and other hits as part of the park’s Downtown Stage series. If you need another reason from the past to pull you to the park in the present, it will come in the form of Martha Davis and the Motels. The “Suddenly Last Summer” band opens up. Showtime is 8 p.m., the concert is free and the bar is bigger and better than ever.

At 532 S. Olive St., (213) 847-4970 or laparks.org/pershingsquare.

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and the Deep Blue Sea. According to the LATC, “80s attire suggested.

Meet on the patio of 514 S. Spring St. Ask for Fred.” Through July 26.

The Last Jimmy California Plaza, 350 S. Grand, (213) 687-2190 or grandperformances.org.

July 17, 8 p.m.: The Roots’ Dice Raw tackles the statistical disparity of African-American youth incarceration in this one night hiphop musical aimed right at the heart of our nation’s prison fetish.

Moves After Dark Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., (213) 9720777 or musiccenter.org.

July 13-14, 8:30 p.m.: Stage limits be damned, this immersive dance experience eschews typical performance limits as the audiences wanders around to see four different troupes in four different Music Center locales. Through July 21. See story p. 20.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Loft Ensemble, 929 E. Second St., (213) 680-0392 or loftensemble.org.

July 18, 8 p.m. and July 19, 7 p.m.: McMurphy and Nurse Ratched take up residence in the Arts District as Ken Kesey’s timeless tale of insanity hits the stage. Through Aug. 2.

Sleepaway Camp Downtown Independent, 251 S. Main St., (213) 617-1033 or downtownindependent.com.

July 14, 9 p.m.: Every Tuesday this irreverent stand-up comedy cavalcade takes up residence at the Downtown Independent.

3 p.m.: The lads and lasses learning to hone their classical chops this summer give one last demonstration of their newly acquired skills with a few pieces by George Gershwin.

MUSEUMS African American Firefighter Museum 1401 S. Central Ave., (213) 744-1730 or aaffmuseum.org.

Ongoing: An array of firefighting relics dating to 1924, including a 1940 Pirsch ladder truck, an 1890 hose wagon, uniforms from New York, L.A. County and City of L.A. firefighters, badges, helmets, photographs and other artifacts.

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FIDM Museum FIDM, second floor, 919 S. Grand Ave., (213) 624-1200 or fidmmuseum.org.

Ongoing: The FIDM Museum presents Artfully Adorned, an exceptional collection of fragrance, cosmetics and ephemera from the house of Lucien Lelong. This group of objects was donated by Monique Fink, wife of artist Peter Fink, who worked for Lelong as package designer and interior decorator.

Ongoing: Accessories from The Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection surveys footwear, fans, gloves, purses and hats.

California African American Museum 600 State Drive, (213) 744-7432 or caamuseum.org.

Ongoing: The multi-functional Gallery of Discovery offers visitors the opportunity to connect with the lineage of their own family, engage in artistic workshops, educational tours and other programs of historical discoveries. Hear recordings of former slaves from the Library of Congress archives and discover stories from the past.

California Science Center 700 State Drive, (323) 724-3623 or californiasciencecenter.org.

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Ongoing: The Science Center’s permanent exhibits are usually interactive and focus on human innovations and inventions as well as the life processes of living things. The lobby Science Court stays busy with the High Wire Bicycle, a Motion-Based Simulator, the Ecology Cliff Climb and Forty Years of Space Photography.

The human body is another big focus: The Life Tunnel aims to show the connections between all life forms, from the singlecelled amoeba to the 100-trillion-celled human being. The new Ecosystems exhibit explores how life on our planet is shaped by

geophysical and biological processes.

Through September 7: Long-obscured texts and the fate of the Old Testament are explored in Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition.

Chinese American Museum 425 N. Los Angeles St., (213) 485-8567 or camla.org.

Permanent: Origins presents the story of the Chinese-American community in Los Angeles.

Permanent: Re-creation of the Sun Wing Wo, a Chinese general store and herbal shop, and Journeys: Stories of Chinese Immigration, an exhibit exploring Chinese immigration to the United States with an emphasis on community settlement in Los Angeles. Outlined into four distinct time periods, each

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Another Day, Another South Park Housing Project West Hollywood Developer Working on $30 Million ‘E. On Grand’

By Eddie Kim igueroa Street in South Park is in the midst of a development boom. The billion-dollar Oceanwide Plaza and Shenzhen Hazens’ three-tower project are rising on the street, and a pair of 34-story condominium towers are planned for 1200 S. Figueroa St. The surge has overshadowed several projects rising to the east, including a $30 million apartment building from a local developer making its first foray into the Downtown Los Angeles market.

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4D Development broke ground in January on the 115-apartment “E. On Grand” building at the northwest corner of Pico Boulevard and Grand Avenue. It is slated to open in October 2016.

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West Hollywood-based 4D Development began construction on a seven-story apartment building dubbed “E. On Grand,” at 1249 S. Grand Ave., in January. The 115-unit project, located three blocks east of the Los Angeles Convention Center, is on track to be completed in October 2016, said company President and CEO David Pourbaba.

“We looked at a lot of parcels in Downtown, but what struck us about this lot is it’s close to both the amenities and the freeway,” Pourbaba said. “There’s a lot of traffic when there’s a major event around there. So you gotta be careful where you live if you want access.”

The building will have studios and one- and two-bedroom apartments averaging about 600 square feet, with monthly rents of approximately $3.50 per square foot. Amenities will include a pool, sun deck, recreation room and gym. The ground floor will hold about 5,000 square feet of retail/commercial space and the building will contain about 120 parking spaces.

Pourbaba said that E. On Grand will be marketed as a “boutique” destination because the complex is smaller than many other upcoming apartment buildings in South Park, which generally feature 200 or more units.

The design, from local firm AFCO Design Inc., is similar to some of the other mid-rise developments that have popped up in Downtown. Early renderings show an articulated facade with glass balconies on every unit and colored accent panels.

4D Development was founded in 1981 and has created projects in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas. Pourbaba said the construction costs in Los Angeles make mid-rise buildings more feasible than towers (the company has built high-rises elsewhere) but noted that Downtown L.A. is the hottest market 4D is investing in, with room for growth.

“Comparing Downtown L.A. with other metro areas, there’s a very low percentage of people who work there who also live there,” he said. “The jobs are there, and the amenities are there.

That’s a good thing.” eddie@downtownnews.com