Los Angeles CRA Creates Blight

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Nate Holden is a moron. It's a shame how this deadbeat ex-councilman who never lived in his own district got a great building dedicated to him that the city cannot even afford to use. If this retread had any civic pride or dignity, he would donate a portion of his retirement to help operate and program the Art Center on Washington for the people that he screwed over for years. He has no right to renig on his promise from ten years ago or lie about the Sears building at Midtown to be an obstruction; it never was. That building was an historic art deco icon that was raped repeatedly by his office for multi-faceted swap meet, low-rent retail hoodwinkery until the last bits of it were finally demolished. Midtown Sears, in its glory, was a landmark where you could sit on the roof and overlook most of the entire city, East, North, and West. Neighbors to the South could do the same because IT WAS NOT IN THE WAY of their view to the North. Not at all. You could see clear over it in all directions. Holden is lying through his chipped dentures when he denies this FACT. As was expclaimed in his last election "No more Holden on!" Why would you even quote this liar?? Oh. that's right. You are the LA Weekly.

The abolition of the CRA is long overdue. The CRA is responsible for most of the development blight proposed for downtown L.A.—such as the billboard buildings, the removal of affordable housing and the "Broken Windows" approach to Skid Row that does nothing but move the problem elsewhere for future over-priced development. Moreover, the blight that surrounds City Hall continues to be allowed.The L.A. Weekly is commended for covering this and related stories (such as the LAPD building land-grab and the L.A. Reflections scandal). Such stories should be widely covered and by every newspaper. If only the developer-friendly downtown "news"paper would have the backbone to investigate the CRA and all its corruption in its very backyard. Too bad Sue Laris & Co. won't dare to upset the CRA, Eli Broad, et al.

Come on Governor Jerry Brown, show some of your dad's spine. Abolish the corrupt CRA ! And, distribute that $1Billion dollars where it was intended; city repairs, Schools, Fire and Police.

Curious? Did John and Ken radio show sell-out--and that's why they didn't promote Walter Moore for Mayor, like they're promoting Craig Huey for Congress? Perhaps by now the CRA would have been exposed and buried. And 'antonio' could have sailed off into the sunset, and we wouldn't be in this mess. Deplorable !

I've lived and worked in LA all my life That's 60 years. Nothing creates blight like a lack of jobs. I'm sorry that this small group is having their lifestyle altered. They should be compensated. I agree If they don''t work things out with the developer ...well that's what the courts are for Why is this an issue?

What's important is that the neighborhood is getting serviced by company's that are still willing to risk money at all. . I'm sure you've noticed that things aren't so good right now for all of us.

I would have liked to have seen photos the peoples view of the old Sears building ..I seem to remember that building sat empty and blighted for 10 or 15 years. How come LA Weekly didn't show pictures of that view?. That neighborhood is blue collar working class. Last I noticed, they aren't a prime demographic.Stop bitching and count your blessings. They are getting jobs and development in an area thats been blighted t for years. Nothing to see here .Move along. Let's talk about making more jobs so we can grow out of this hole.

I smell major lawsuit. Another perfect example of how our government can waste money on stupidity.

You get what you vote for.

Great piece. I drove by the wall last week and was shocked. I knew this was another example of redevelopment run amok. Thanks for sorting out the chain of misdeeds and letting the residents' voices be heard.

I love the first paragraph of this story.

City Hall politicians; CRA; CIM and Planning Department equal a toxic mix that create blight in neighborhoods.

The people in Hollywood who voted for La Bonge got screwed as he increased the pace of CRA destruction. It looks like the same occurred with Wesson.

The question becomes: If you vote for greedy crooks to represent you, what do you expect?

The Governor and everyone else in Sacramento just screwed the people again with a fraudulent abolition of the CRA's. All the CRA's has to do is bribe Sacramento with $1.7 Billion, which money the CRA has taken from us in the first place, in order to get $5 Billion more dollars this year alone.

The people on 16th Street like the people in The Oaks, whose homes can burn to the ground for lack of adequate fire protection, will do nothing except bitch and moan -- but they won't do anything to stop the CRA's from bribing Sacramento with the homeowners' own money so that the CRA's come back stronger and more destructive than ever.

You will just have to follow the entitlement trail to see when this change in grade measurement was made.

This is really terrible. I support the homeowners 200%. CRA should be thinking about the quality of life in a neighborhood and not just commercial interests.

I grew up in that neighborhood and always loved the view from 16th Street. I was a little pocket of the beauty of L.A. in a neighborhood that was turning the wrong way. Now that the neighborhood is back on the path of renovation, this horrible wall certainly won't help things progress.

I think Lowe's or anything else that takes over this space should be boycotted until the wall is lowered and the local politicians should be made to serve the people of the community and not just the whims of some wealthy developer who goes home to some wealthy neighborhood to enjoy his view.

We need to cut the ability for politicians to piss our money away. Abolish the LA-CRA, another way politicians fill their pockets with money, and another huge waste of taxpayer dollars. Take that money and either pay the city debt, or give it back to the people to spend on the necessities of life.