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Article: Villaraigosa bridges gap between biz and City Hall: but downtown still faces image problems.(POLITICS)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Just a few weeks ago, before some 200 people, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa helped break ground on L.A. Live, a massive new project of theaters, restaurants, condos, hotels and even a broadcast facility that he and other civic leaders hope will help create a real, 24-hour-a-day downtown, a place where even entertainment industry professionals might live and work.
"It is going to be a real jewel for downtown Los Angeles," Villaraigosa says.
But the industry's Westsiders and Valleyites can be forgiven if they view the whole thing with a dose of skepticism, for they have heard reports of downtown's resurgence many times before. There was the ...