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Article: City playing active role in Revitalization of Main Street. (Spoltlight on Alhambra).(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 21, 2002
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The word "potential" comes up a lot when Leonel Prats explains why he left a successful business partnership to strike out on his own and open a Cuban bistro on Alhambra's Main Street.
His partners in the chain of popular Versailles restaurants decided it would be a mistake to expand into the area. But Prats was certain that the sleepy street was on its way to becoming a bustling commercial district.
"My gut feeling is that a restaurant can do well in that area," said Prats, an architect who designed and built the recently opened Cuban Bistro on West Main Street. "I think the area has great potential."
Others walking down Main Street, however, ...