Hollywood Projects

[Damien]

These people are NUTS ... completely and totally nuts, if they don't welcome Hollywood's renaissance with open arms. The place is a potential gold mine that the city ignored for far too long.

Of course Hollywood should have lights and large billboards that rival Times Square - IT'S FRICKING HOLLYWOOD! It's the entertainment capital of the world, how about we start treating it as such? Every person that comes within 100 miles of LA wants to go to Hollywood, and still after about a decade of upgrades most people continue to be disappointed. Tell Mr. Nedulman that our work is just beginning. There are still far too many ugly parking lots, loads of theaters that need to be renovated, countless tacky single-story commercial properties that need to be replaced with mixed-use buildings no less than 4-5 stories high, local residential streets that need to be turned into cul-de-sacs, and a need for:
-class A office buildings
-small green spaces just off the boulevards
-freeway lids for the depressed parts of the Hollywood Fwy
-two to three large parking garages, a la Santa Monica (hopefully mixed into new developments)
-and an expanded rail system that connects it to West Hollywood/Sunset Strip in the west, and Mid-City, Wilshire, Crenshaw, Inglewood and the South Bay in the south.

Additionally, I think the redevelopment needs to be expanded east of Vine to Western, and south of Hollywood Blvd to Melrose.

This place is a jewel, our city's international icon, and it's time the people distorting the concept of preservation be called out. There was little left in the 90s to preserve. This is a total rehab, literally from the ground up!