Will Grand Avenue Live Up to the Hype?

The remarkably ambitious Grand Avenue Project has been hailed as a key to the urban rejuvenation of downtown Los Angeles. Combining architectural, streetscape, and park-planning elements with huge amounts of new retail and residential space, the project’s sheer reach recalls much earlier eras of urban design and scope. How will the project’s multiple and varied goals be reached? How will Grand Avenue balance public and private constituencies, funds, and needs? Will it all work? LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, developer Bill Witte, president of The Related Companies of California, Dana Cuff, professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and LA City Councilmember Jan Perry visit Zócalo to discuss the future of Bunker Hill and beyond. (This event is made possible, in part, by a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles.)

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