Los Angeles Informer

OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The people who believe in Downtown Los Angeles as an up-and-coming neighborhood have been singing its praises for years. This doesn’t mean they are sugarcoating the problems or ignoring the challenges (traffic, homelessness, etc.), but they are celebrating the wealth of options and opportunities the Central City offers. Those who [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Within the next few weeks, the city is expected to break ground on a nearly one-acre park on Spring between Fourth and Fifth streets. Come late 2012, the facility will open.

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – On Thursday, Aug. 11, tens of thousands of people will fill the Historic Core for the first time since the death last month of 7-week old Marcello Vasquez. In the wake of that tragic accident, Art Walk organizers, LAPD officials, neighborhood residents, political leaders and others have debated what, if [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Downtown is filled with historic gems, the edifices and landmarks that both hearken to a previous time and have a modern-day function. There are Broadway movie palaces and City Hall. There are aged office buildings-turned housing complexes and Grand Central Market. The list goes on.

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Over the last nine months, city officials have listened to, debated and negotiated the proposed $1.3 billion football stadium and expanded convention center in South Park. On Friday, July 29, the City Council spent its entire session discussing the deal for the project. A vote on whether to approve a [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Stop us if you’ve heard this before: After years of false starts, Los Angeles County is finally moving forward on a plan to renovate and activate the dilapidated Hall of Justice. That’s a very good thing for Downtown and the rest of the region.

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Today’s entertainment scene is dominated by the loud, fast and eye-popping. It’s a culture where celebrities and faux celebrities rule, where over-processed pop music generates huge buzz and where comic book adaptations and three-dimensional technology ensure mammoth press and buckets of money.

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Every so often you hear a story about something you don’t expect in Skid Row. Sometimes it’s a large donation of money or goods, other times a new, architecturally stunning housing project. Occasionally it’s a move by the business community to help, or a piece about a single person working [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Anyone who follows the Los Angeles food scene knows that, over the past few years, Downtown has emerged as a culinary hub. A lot of people took notice in late 2008 when the opening of L.A. Live brought approximately a dozen new eating and drinking establishments to that South Park [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – You can say this for the Community Redevelopment Agency: When it comes to the 20-acre plot envisioned as the future Cleantech Manufacturing Center, the company tries. It tries really, really hard, and over the past three years has brought three seemingly feasible deals to the table in the effort to [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Real estate observers continue to discuss the state of the single family home and the condominium market. While the subject generates seemingly ceaseless attention across Southern California, in recent months the line of thought in Downtown Los Angeles has begun to change. Unlike areas such as, say, the Inland Empire, [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – We admit it: We don’t really give a royal toss about this week’s visit to Los Angeles of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. We don’t object — it’s almost never a bad thing when our city gets some time in the international limelight — but we hardly think the crush [...]

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – On June 21, several hundred skateboarders rolled through the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. While there were a few traffic snarls and plenty of whoops and hollers, the early afternoon ride that started in Boyle Heights was relatively sedate. Twenty-four hours after the event, it was forgotten by most of [...]

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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Before moving Downtown five years ago, my husband and I spent a year living in Bakersfield, a place that boasted sizable populations of both of our ethnicities. I am a U.S.-born Caucasian and he is a Punjabi Indian immigrant.

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OPINION: DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – They’re quite a spectacle, these creatures with the soft fur, sharp claws, pointy ears, long whiskers and a penchant for screeching at odd hours of the night.

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