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The $100-million, 1.3-mile public art corridor known as Destination Crenshaw — with fundraising led by Issa Rae and DeMar DeRozan — will debut its first phase, Sankofa Park, this fall.
The major commercial corridor for the Crenshaw district, Hyde Park and Leimert Park is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles". [17] [18] [19] The project was conceived to celebrate the Crenshaw business district as a black community amid fears of gentrification with the arrival of the K Line light rail and the NFL Stadium in Inglewood. [16]
Destination Crenshaw announced four new artist commissions and a collections care program intended to create "a pipeline for jobs." The official debut of its first public space, Sankofa Park, has ...
1927 Los Angeles Times map of Leimert Park and surrounding area, including (4) proposed connection of Santa Barbara Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) with Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) via a new 133-foot-wide Leimert Boulevard and (7) paving and widening of Angeles Mesa Drive with two roadways from Vernon south to 79th Street
Crenshaw Boulevard was named after banker and Los Angeles real estate developer George Lafayette Crenshaw who also developed the Lafayette Square. [4]The southern end of Crenshaw Boulevard was at Adams Street until 1916-1918, when the road was extended between Adams on the north and Slauson Avenue on the south.
Crenshaw High School, which is south of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and east of Crenshaw Boulevard, is the local public high school. Susan Miller Dorsey High School; The district's charter schools in the area include the KIPP network. KIPP Academy of Opportunity [15] Celerity Nascent Charter School [16] the New Design Charter School (built ...
Kerry Park, a small public park on Queen Anne Hill, offers a postcard-perfect view of Seattle's romantic skyline and one of the most beautiful vistas in the world. Drink in the twinkling city ...
President Barack Obama Boulevard (commonly known as Obama Boulevard, formerly Rodeo Road) is a major thoroughfare in South Los Angeles. It stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 km) from Baldwin Hills (past Baldwin Village and Crenshaw Manor ) to Leimert Park .