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Article: L.A.'s landmark decisions: developers knock down the city's history as a transient, non-native population remains indifferent.(COMMENTARY)(Los Angeles, California)(Column)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- February 9, 2009
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I am concerned about the proposed demolition of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza hotel in Century City. If there is a single element epitomizing the superficiality and spiritual bankruptcy of any city, it lies in that city's decision to forfeit substantial architectural landmarks in return for profit. There is only one reason for this wonderful city landmark to be destroyed. That reason is greed.
There are many reasons, however, why Angelenos would be indifferent to the "redevelopment" of Century City and would, by that indifference, allow this hotel to be destroyed. Chief among those reasons is a population that is as transient as it is segmented. There is ...