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Article: Poor planning torpedoed 1960s revitalization push.(REAL ESTATE QUARTERLY: SAN PEDRO'S PROMISE)(Los Angeles, California. Community Redevelopment Agency)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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DOWNTOWN San Pedro had become a dead zone. Jobs were scarce. Shops were shuttered. Tourists dropped their dollars elsewhere.
In response, redevelopment officials drew up a plan to revitalize the area and rapidly succeeded in getting a recently constructed downtown building occupied. Hopes rose that a turnaround was near.
This could easily describe the situation in San Pedro today. But the sequence of events actually took place in the late 1960s under the first renewal plan from the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.
"The CRA came in and did what they had always done: They tore down old buildings and built new buildings that they thought ...