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LA Conservationists are MAD as Hell & The Spirits Are Restless What about the sub-lessee? The hotel, which has a creepy history of more than a dozen mysterious deaths over the years, was converted into a for-profit affordable housing complex which opened in December of 2021 in a partnership between Simon Baron Development and the Skid Row Housing Trust. The Trust “provides permanent supportive housing so that people who have experienced homelessness, prolonged extreme poverty, poor health, disabilities, mental illness and/ or addiction can lead safe, stable lives in wellness.” In this case, that means housing people in one of the supposedly most haunted hotels in the world. Artist Matthew Garcia has been commissioned to paint a mural on the building. Garcia recently told Downtown Weekly, “Oh snap, this is pretty controversial. Yea, it’s been fun, I got to go inside the building and had the pleasure of riding the elevator straight to the top. The interior lobby is magnificent. I respect and highly regard the spirits and entities that inhabit that hotel. With much due respect, I, as an independent contractor and member of the Walldoggs Muralist company, have to say it is a true honor!” Conservatives suggest that the artists and owners paint nothing unless to restore the sign to its ordinal glory. Only time will tell how the spirits in the building may feel or react. May we suggest they repaint the sign in blood-red so as not to anger them any further?
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