Recent Streetsblog LA posts about People St

Saturday! Leimert Park Celebrates 2nd Annual 20|20 Vision Charette with People St Plaza Launch

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 26, 2015 | 1 Comment

It is noon on a Monday. The weekly Leimert Park Village (LPV) stakeholders meeting has just finished, and Sherri Franklin, founder of the Urban Design Center, and Romerol Malveaux, former Field Director for the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, are leading a small group of people on a walk around the village streets. Map in hand, […]

People St Opens First Project with Plaza in North Hollywood

By Damien Newton | Feb 23, 2015 | No Comments

What was once an empty alley near the busy intersection of Magnolia and Lankershim Boulevards in the heart of the North Hollywood Arts District is now a public plaza with tables, chairs, green polka dots on the pavement, and sun shade. The plaza, the second of its kind and the first completed project in LADOT’s […]

Damaged DTLA Parklet to Be Repaired, Four New L.A. Parklets in 2015

By Joe Linton | Jan 21, 2015 | 8 Comments

In July 2014, according to coverage at LAist and CBS, a drunk man made off with his friend’s car and, after clipping a couple of parked cars, smashed into a parklet. That parklet is located in front of Downtown Los Angeles’ L.A. Cafe, on Spring Street between 6th Street and 7th Street. Sadly, since the […]

Work Underway On Three New LADOT People St Plazas

By Joe Linton | Jan 14, 2015 | No Comments

Los Angeles is reclaiming some car space to allocate it to walking and hanging out. Work is underway on three new plazas, located in Pacoima, North Hollywood, and South Los Angeles’ Leimert Park. The plazas are the work of the city Transportation Department’s (LADOT) People St program. Under People St, community organizations apply to host […]

LADOT’s New Broadway Pre-Project Report Heralds Data-Driven Evaluation

By Joe Linton | Nov 26, 2014 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Transportation Department (LADOT) released a new report entitled Broadway Dress Rehearsal: Pre-Installation Existing Conditions Report 2014 [PDF]. The handsome 82-page report is full of facts, figures and graphs all detailing the “safety, public life, and economic” conditions on Broadway from 2nd Street to 11th Street in downtown Los Angeles. This stretch of […]

Leimert Park People St Plaza: Making a Cookie-Cutter Program Fit a Cultural Community’s Aspirations

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 29, 2014 | No Comments

On my way to a meeting of the Leimert Park Village stakeholders at the Vision Theater a few weeks ago, I poked my head into the art space known as the KAOS Network looking for founder and artist Ben Caldwell. I found him huddled around a table with Sherri Franklin, the founder of Urban Design Center, […]

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