Samantha Millman, President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, Lee Raagas, chief executive officer of Skid Row Housing Trust and Skid Row (Credit: iStock) Could a new rezoning plan hit the gas on the gentrification of Skid Row? In short, it’s more like a very slow release of the brakes. Last month, when the […]
Relevant Group plans 150-unit affordable complex in Skid Row while converting Morrison Hotel
Relevant Group Managing Partner Richard Heyman and a rendering of the project on 5th Street A salacious legal spat with a rival investor hasn’t slowed prolific hotel builder Relevant Group. The Hollywood firm’s latest project isn’t another boutique hotel though, it’s the near opposite — a 150-unit affordable modular complex in the heart of Downtown […]
LA wants to rezone Skid Row to allow 100K units of new housing
The Skid Row City Limits mural A city plan to rezone Skid Row could transform the impoverished neighborhood, allowing for the construction of 100,000 new housing units over the next few decades. Unveiled Tuesday, the draft plan would likely reach the Los Angeles City Council next year following further review year, according to the Los […]
Skid Row conversion could add 95 affordable units
Coalition for Responsible Community Development President and CEO Mark Anthony Wilson, Jr and 803-821 E. 5th Street (Credit: Google Maps) A few weeks after securing funds for a project in South Los Angeles, the Coalition for Responsible Community Development is eyeing Skid Row. The nonprofit filed plans this week to convert three buildings on East […]
The Renegade Doctor of Skid Row Is Caring for Homeless Addicts in Revolutionary Ways
Dr. Susan Partovi is not supposed to drive patients to the emergency room, but it happens. The “Skid Row Doctor,” as colleagues know her, has an award in her office praising the “boundless compassion” she has demonstrated over what is now nearly 15 years of caring for thousands of the sickest of the sick in […]
Developers decry city decision to prohibit seizing homeless’ possessions along Skid Row
A tent on Skid Row The Los Angeles City Council agreed to settle a three-year-old lawsuit, effectively surrendering the city’s ability to seize without notice the possessions of people living on the streets. Property owners and developer say the decision will discourage real estate development in Downtown L.A.’s Skid Row and will present health and […]