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History Lesson

Tracing the Old State Building

By Eric Richardson
Published: Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 02:54PM

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — shannon over at sha in LA had a post yesterday titled urban exploration in which she wrote:

It all began about a year ago. I give tours of City Hall. The highlight of the tour is when we go up to the 27th floor observation deck and get a 360

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shannon on April 26, 2005, at 05:39PM – #1

thank you! i wasn't expecting such an informative response. go check it out sometime if you get a chance...and bring a step stool and blanket!

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e; on April 26, 2005, at 10:30PM – #2

I'll try to go back to a few of the articles that had pictures and pull those out. There were a couple other period articles that seemed pretty interesting as well. -e;

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Alex B. on May 15, 2007, at 02:43PM – #3

Has there been any talk of doing anything with this property? I try to keep a close eye on development Downtown, but in all the conceptual drawings I've seen (1st St project, Grand Ave project) this lot always appears as a vacant foundation. What gives?

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SAUNDERS on May 29, 2007, at 06:00PM – #4

Any indication what may happen to this parcel in the future? It would be nice if it could be encorporated into the new Grand Ave., Civic Park plan.

http://www.grandavenuecommittee.org/civic_park.html

Note that it abuts the planned Civic Park and is directly across the street from the City Hall Park/Lawn. It is a nice opportunity to join the two green spaces into a larger green oasis in the heart of downtown and adjacent to City Hall.

jms

Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on May 29, 2007, at 08:45PM – #5

You would think that people would be talking about that, but I haven't heard any plans. It's a tough parcel, with ownership split between a couple of government agencies.