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Originally Posted by Illithid Dude
They do? Really? What building? And is it historic? If it is, they will never get away with it.
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Per the Downtown News on April 30, 2010
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/broad...ddfc92c-cd07-5c69-ad04-8a89d48cb793.html
"The garage has long been a chief desire of some theater owners on Broadway. In particular the Delijani family, which owns the Los Angeles, the Palace, the State and the Tower theaters, have pushed for the city to build and pay for such a facility, claiming that existing area parking is insufficient for large nighttime crowds.
As part of the Broadway effort, Huizar pursued a $52 million garage plan. The intent was to
purchase four existing properties for approximately $27 million, and spend $25 million to convert them into a single structure with 300 parking spaces."
Can you believe this BS? See what I said.......how can Artwalk sustain 40,000 when NO NEW PARKING was built? It's because there IS SUFFICIENT CAPACITY. This whole arguement of parking, parking, parking, parking, parking, etc... costs the City money and is a tremendous WASTE of resources. To say we need more parking, is going back to the 1960s frame of thinking.
Plus, why are we encouraging people to drive at now $4/gallon? What's going to happen at $8/gallon in 2020? Cars, in the future, will be for the rich...that's unfortunately who will be able to primarily afford driving on the asphalt. Imagine if we could spend that $52 million to build additional entrance portals for the 7th Pershing Square station at 6th/Hill (I understand there is a knock-out panel there).
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