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This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
According to the Mapping L.A. survey of the Los Angeles Times, the Central Los Angeles region constitutes 57.87 sq mi (149.9 km 2) and comprises twenty-three neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles, as well as Griffith Park, the city's largest public park. In Mapping L.A., the Central Los Angeles region consists of: [11]
The distribution center was closed in January 1992, eliminating jobs for 585 full-time workers and 775 part-timers. [ 10 ] The facility's general manager Francisco Medina said at the time that the Boyle Heights center was the least expensive that Sears operated, partly because of their 99-year lease contract.
In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that with Dreamgirls and Numb3rs filming at Los Angeles Center Studios, the city’s decades-old vision for City West was finally being fulfilled. [8] In 2007, an economic downturn halted construction in the area, but by 2011, construction of apartment buildings in the neighborhood resumed. [9] Beaudry Center
The Civic Center is located in the northern part of Downtown Los Angeles, bordering Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, and the Historic Core of the old Downtown. . Depending on various district definitions, either the Civic Center or Bunker Hill also contains the Music Center and adjacent Walt Disney Concert Hall; some maps, for example, place the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Civic ...
The Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, California, where some probation officers have been placed on leave since Jan. 1 for a range of alleged offenses, officials said Monday.
The Bloc (stylized as THE BLOC), formerly Macy's Plaza and Broadway Plaza, is an open-air shopping center in downtown Los Angeles at 700 South Flower Street, in the Financial District. Its tenants include the downtown Los Angeles Macy's store, LA Fitness , Nordstrom Local, UNIQLO , and the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles hotel.
The neighborhood has been home to many of the counter-culture, political radicals, artists, writers, architects and filmmakers in Los Angeles. The children of many progressives attended school there during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. [4] [5] By the 1930s, it was known as Red Hill, for the communists thought to live there. [3]