Audio: Grand Avenue Project Go Ahead May 24, 2005 Listen (Requires Real Player) Audio courtesy of 89.3 KPCC AirTalk with Larry Mantle On Monday, May 23, 2005, a panel of city and county officials, the Grand Avenue Authority, voted unanimously in favor of a $1.8 billion joint project to revitalize Grand Avenue. The master plan, developed by New York-based The Related Companies, includes creating a 16-acre civic park, more than 2,100 residential units -- 20 percent of which will be designated as affordable -- and making streetscape improvements along Grand Avenue, from Fifth Street to Cesar Chavez Avenue. The vote forwards the plan to the Community Redevelopment Agency, City Council and county Board of Supervisors for approval. Larry talks with Eli Broad, LA Civic leader, philanthropist, and Co-Chairman of the Grand Avenue Committee, Brenda Levin, President of Levin & Associates, an architecture firm that is participating in the design of the Grand Avenue Project, and Martha Welborne, managing director of the Grand Avenue Committee. Link: AirTalk Archive On 89.3 KPCC Education | Arts & Culture | Civic & Social | Urban Revitalization About Levin & Associates | News | Home