Recent Streetsblog LA posts about mariachi plaza

Recognize this place? Me, neither. It was Primestor's proposal for the "Plaza del Mariachi." (Source: Metro)

Dupont-Walker, Community Press Metro on Surprising Changes Slated for Mariachi Plaza, Demand More Outreach

By Sahra Sulaiman | | 48 Comments
How can we ensure stakeholder input has value and is incorporated into planning? And, in so doing, help the community feel comfortable in trusting Metro to make sure that happens? The queries, posed by Metro Board Member Jacqueline Dupont-Walker to Metro CEO Art Leahy during Tuesday’s Planning Committee meeting were in response to Boyle Heights […]

The Ultimate First Street Guide to CicLAvia: Where to Eat and Who to Meet

By Sahra Sulaiman | | 7 Comments
CicLAvia! Bicycles! Hipster Invaders! Gentrification! Made you look! Probably provoked some strong emotions, too, given the way recent headlines (see here, here, here) in asking whether activities assumed to be the purview of “hipsters” could be compatible with lower-income communities, have inadvertently re-ified the “us vs. them” framing that guides too much of the conversation […]