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CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 30, 1991 | JILL STEWART, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved development plans for an innovative 465-acre "self-contained urban village" adjacent to downtown that will include a core of office towers and shops encircled by 18,000 dwellings for the affluent and poor alike. Central City West, the largest revitalization ever attempted downtown without public redevelopment funds, was hailed by federal and state officials as a model for tackling housing, transportation and growth problems.
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CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 30, 1991 | JILL STEWART, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved development plans for an innovative 465-acre "self-contained urban village" adjacent to downtown that will include a core of office towers and shops encircled by 18,000 dwellings for the affluent and poor alike. Central City West, the largest revitalization ever attempted downtown without public redevelopment funds, was hailed by federal and state officials as a model for tackling housing, transportation and growth problems.
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OPINION
April 7, 1991 | Cary D. Lowe, Cary D. Lowe, an attorney and developer, represented the United Neighbors to Save the Temple/Beaudry Neighborhood in 1974
The politics of development in Los Angeles has come of age. The city and a consortium of major developers recently became partners to what was called "one of the most perfect plans" to revitalize a decaying inner-city neighborhood on the western edge of downtown. Unlike the city's previous "urban removal" style of redevelopment, the plan promises not only to produce new jobs, tax revenues, office space, retail stores and upscale housing.
