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Article: First step in reinventing downtown.(Staples Center to open in Los Angeles, CA)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- October 11, 1999
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Can Staples Center Usher In Nightlife?
After years of proclamations that downtown is about to emerge as a 24-hour destination, the first true test comes with this week's opening of the Staples Center.
It's the first of more than $1 billion worth of mega-projects now in the works that boosters say will lure thousands of additional Angelenos downtown - to play, pray, relax, live and spend money.
Each of those projects - Staples Center ($375 million), Disney Concert Hall ($235 million), L.A. City Hall overhaul ($273 million) and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels ($163 million) - is significant in its own right. But can they provide the stimulus ...