While real estate developer CIM Group pulled strings at the Los Angeles City Council to secure a $30 million HUD loan to retrofit the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, the L.A.-based company allowed one of its less famous properties to turn into a slum, with local politicians looking the other way. Read more in Patrick Range McDonald's “CIM Group: Hollywood's Richest Slumlord.”
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