Around the Halls: Olvera Rents, Little Tokyo's Rec Center Gets a Lease and El Pueblo's Church
Little Tokyo Service Center
Rendering of the Budokan of Los Angeles recreation center
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Today is Monday, May 2, and a new rent agreement for Olvera Street's merchants, a ground lease for Little Tokyo's Budokan rec center and the ordering of talks for El Pueblo's Methodist church are all on the agendas at City Hall this week.
MONDAY: Budget and Finance committee continues its marathon sessions on the city's budget for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. Monday's meeting runs from 9am to 5pm. Sessions run 1 to 5pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with another all-day affair on Council's Thursday off-day.
TUESDAY: Council meets, as do three committees.
Rents at Olvera Street head to Council as CF 11-0449. The new merchant agreement sets current rents, steps toward market rent and terms for payment of back rents.
A ground lease for the Budokan of Los Angeles heads to Information Technology and Government Affairs as CF 10-0450. It was just over a year ago that Council approved the preparation of the lease. The center, to be built by the Little Tokyo Service Center, would host volleyball, basketball and martial arts. The land rental is valued at $34,250 per month, but the organization would pay it in the form of community services.
WEDNESDAY: Council returns.
The lease standoff between El Pueblo and La Plaza United Methodist Church is the subject of CF 11-0689, a Huizar motion that calls for a negotiating team to come to a deal within 45 days. El Pueblo is instructed to give the congregation a key to its church building while talks are underway.
Robyn on May 02, 2011, at 12:55PM – #1
Can you (someone) clarify the orientation of the Budokan rendering? Between 2nd and 3rd on Los Angeles Street: is it going on what is currently the parking lot - with the front exterior facing 2nd and the red car in the rendering closer to Los Angeles Street? Or is the rec center taking out the Kyoto Grand or the library (and the parking lot next to it)? Seeking orientation ...
Robyn on May 02, 2011, at 12:55PM – #2
Can you (someone) clarify the orientation of the Budokan rendering? Between 2nd and 3rd on Los Angeles Street: is it going on what is currently the parking lot - with the front exterior facing 2nd and the red car in the rendering closer to Los Angeles Street? Or is the rec center taking out the Kyoto Grand or the library (and the parking lot next to it)? Seeking orientation ...
Chris Loos on May 02, 2011, at 02:16PM – #3
@Robyn
I believe this is the perspective the rendering is shown from: http://is.gd/GXFaSC
Brady Westwater (@bradywestwater) on May 04, 2011, at 05:30PM – #4
The building starts on the north (the right hand side of the photograph)at the edge of the parking lot - next to the LIttle Tokyo Library - that is marked on Main by the edge of the police parking garage. That relatively narrow parking lot which runs from Main to LA due south of St. Vibiana and the Little Tokyo Library will one day have a condo building.
Then the proposed building will back into the parking garage from its norther edge until it reaches the multi-story concrete building to the south on LA Street and it will replace the two small two story brick buildings just before the larger concrete building.
Bill Yosh Watanabe on May 06, 2011, at 10:45PM – #5
The rendering shows the proposed Budokan as it would appear if you were standing on the east side of Los Angeles street about the middle of the block between 2nd St. and 3rd St. We estimate the Budokan will be built in 5 years (raise funds and construction time), by which time that stretch of the street should be transformed with the new Budokan, housing on both sides of the street, commercial enterprises on the street levels. The Budokan will also have an open green park on the roof for walking path and garden.