Downtown L.A. Has Arrived, Believe It or Not
A Panel In Grand Park Discusses the Future of One of the City’s Trickiest Neighborhoods
Will downtown L.A. ever work? It’s already working, said a four-person panel of architects, planners, and designers who’ve been closely involved with downtown over the past decade. At an event in partnership with the Music Center at Grand Park–one of downtown’s newest public spaces–the panelists spoke with the evening’s moderator, Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, about why they feel downtown has at last arrived and what the future might hold. Hawthorne recalled arriving at the Times in 2004 and feeling like downtown was effectively empty; it was hard, …
