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Eric Richardson

  • News

    February 10, 2011

    The Bikeroots

    City Council candidate Stephen Box and L.A. bicyclists roll into the halls of power

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Club 907, Downtown Los Angeles Taxi-Dancing Venue, Looking For New Girls Just Days After Bust

    Laurie Avocado via FlickrClub 907 in downtown Los Angeles.​ Looks like it's easy come, easy go for Club 907 downtown. A few days after more than 80 of the girls who work at the taxi-dancing venue downtown were arrested in an LAPD raid, the club is advertising for new talent, according to Blogd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Gleaming, New LAPD HQ Has Brown Lawn, Wilted Palms

    ​Former Chief William Bratton called it the most-expensive, state-of-the-art police headquarters in the nation, a $437-million, green-friendly monument to the original boys and girls in blue. And yet, something's amiss at the Los Angeles Police Department's new, gleaming, high-tech Police Admi ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    Urine the Money With L.A. Sidewalk Ads

    Now they're steam-cleaning corporate logos into the thick sidewalk filth

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

    Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    City's 'Live/Work' Definition to Change

    BlogDowntown reports on a little change in city ordinance English that will have a big (and beneficial) effect on developers. Yesterday, reports Eric Richardson, the L.A. City Council's planning committee instructed the city attorney to draft a change in the definition of what constitutes "live/work ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Olvera Street Rents to Rise

    You know the economy's bad when longstanding family-owned shops on Olvera Street are getting pushed out -- and when the pressure's coming from City Hall. That's the way it sounds, at least, in a story posted by BlogDowntown. The piece, written by Eric Richardson and Ed Fuentes, cites the case of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2009

    A Streetcar Named Downtown

    Blog Downtown's Eric Richardson alerts us to progress (well, to starts) being made to create a streetcar system for downtown L.A. The streetcars, whose tracks are scheduled to be laid in 2012, should begin operating in 2014, and will connect South Park, Bunker Hill and the business district known as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Downtown's Traffic Pedi Cure

    Special thanks to LAist's Zach Behrens for flagging Eric Richardson's blogdowntown post delving into the maw of bureaucracy to retrieve a city's good intentions. Of course, L.A.'s streets have been paved with plenty of those over the years. This time the story is about how the city shut down a pair ... More >>

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