Tonight: Main Street Update

By Eric Richardson
Published: Thursday, August 16, 2007, at 09:24AM

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — As Bert mentions over on his impressively active new blog, there is a community meeting being held tonight at the Farmers & Merchants Bank on the corner of 4th and Main. It’s scheduled for 6:30pm and is supposed to include presentations on Main street projects including streetscaping, Vibiana Lofts, Medallion, filming conditions progress, and much more.

I believe this meeting should also mark Russ Brown’s first public outreach as Director of the Historic Downtown BID. The BID’s been missing in action over the past few years, and Russ has a big job ahead of him to make it a force in the neighborhood.

Comments

fridayinla writes:

For anyone who is curious what was discussed at the Main Street community meeting, here are a couple reports from residents who attended:

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=3015067&postcount=1483

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=3015351&postcount=1489

# on Aug.17.2007 AT 10:50 AM

jeff writes:

would anyone happen to know what is being built on the north east corner of 4th & Main? Are they just re-doing the parking lot? Or is something going to be constructed there?

# on Aug.18.2007 AT 10:45 AM

Eric Richardson writes:

Jeff: That will be the Medallion project. Some housing, some parking, some retail, some wholesale. Check the links fridayinla posted above and click through to the full threads for way more than you probably wanted to know.

# on Aug.18.2007 AT 12:17 PM

Timore32 writes:

^ Read this.

# on Aug.18.2007 AT 12:18 PM

Ahn Nguyen writes:

Was happy to hear that there are going to be improvements to Main street in the way of bike racks, new trees and park benches. All efforts to make the area look more inviting will be greatly appreciated.

I suggest that we all encourage the businesses we frequent to add bike racks as soon as possible - healthy for people and the enviornment.

# on Aug.18.2007 AT 02:18 PM

jeff writes:

thanks for the info!

# on Aug.18.2007 AT 03:48 PM