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2012 National Planning Conference Los Angeles Planner’s Guide Sponsors of the 2012 Planner’s Guide Conference Co-Chairs: Marissa Aho, AICP Generosity in the form of in-kind and monetary contributions from the following fi rms: Vince Bertoni, AICP Kurt Christiansen, AICP Anne McIntosh, AICP California Chapter President: Kevin Keller, AICP Los Angeles Section Director: Marissa Aho, AICP This guide book was prepared as a service to those attending the American Planning Association’s 2012 National Planning Conference in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Past Section Director: Special Thanks Kristen Asp, AICP The Planner’s Guide committee would like to extend special thanks to: Local Host Committee: Jessie Barkley – Local Host Events Jeanette Cappiello, Assistant Art Director, RBF Consulting, a company of Michael Baker Corporation, for her creative graphic design and layout of the Planners Guide. Francisco Contreras, AICP – Marketing and Merchandise Steve Gerhardt, AICP – Mobile Workshops Kate Gillespie, AICP, Owner and Principal, 3D Visions, for creating maps that allow us William Hoose – Local Host Events to navigate easily throughout the Los Angeles proper region. Susan Healy Keene, AICP - Local Host Events Ira Brown, Planner, City of Long Beach, for his outstanding photographs to John Keho, AICP - Local Host Events showcase the unique places, spaces, and buildings of the Los Angeles area. Jeff rey Lambert, AICP - AICP Workshop Ioana Ciurariu, City of Los Angeles, and Francisco Contreras, AICP, City of West Michael Laughlin, AICP – Mobile Workshops Hollywood, for their artistic inspiration and creation of the iconic Reimagine LA Nicholas Maricich – Orientation Tours 2012 Cover Artwork that captures the fun, spirit, and variety Los Angeles has to Collette Morse, AICP – AICP Workshop off er. Elisa Paster – Planner’s Guide Wayne Hunt, founder of Hunt Designs, for use of the downtown Los Angeles district Steve Preston, FAICP – Orientation Tours icons established as part of his work for the Downtown LA Walks identify and David Snow, AICP – Local Host Committee Programs Track wayfi nding program. Anna Vidal - Volunteers Introduction to Los Angeles ............................................................................................................... 4-5 South Park ................................................................................................................................................. 6-7 Fashion District ......................................................................................................................................... 8-9 Financial District ................................................................................................................................ 10-11 Historic Core ........................................................................................................................................ 12-13 Bunker Hill ............................................................................................................................................ 14-15 Civic Center .......................................................................................................................................... 16-17 Little Tokyo ........................................................................................................................................... 18-19 Chinatown/Union Station .............................................................................................................. 20-21 Exposition Park ................................................................................................................................... 22-23 Westlake/MacArthur Park ............................................................................................................... 24-25 Boyle Heights ...................................................................................................................................... 26-27 South Los Angeles & Long Beach ................................................................................................ 28-31 Central Los Angeles & Hollywood ............................................................................................... 32-37 West Hollywood/Fairfax/Mid-Wilshire ....................................................................................... 38-41 Beverly Hills & West Los Angeles ................................................................................................. 42-45 Santa Monica, Venice & Other Beach Cities ............................................................................. 46-49 Culver City ............................................................................................................................................ 50-51 San Fernando Valley .......................................................................................................................... 52-55 Pasadena .............................................................................................................................................. 56-59 Sponsors ............................................................................................................................................... 60-61 3 Welcome to the City of Los Angeles Once famously described as “suburbs in search of a city,” in reality, the City’s innovative adaptive reuse ordinance. New buildings rub greater Los Angeles County is a collection of 88 independent cities shoulders with restored historic structures while restaurants and and even more neighborhoods. While its geographic sweep can bars rapidly multiply, combining with and pedestrian-friendly streets be daunting, we invite you to use this guide to travel beyond the and easily accessible public transportation to make Downtown one stereotypes and experience some of LA’s not-so-hidden gems. Our of LA’s most dynamic neighborhoods. extraordinarily diverse communities combine their unique assets and identities to form a world center of business, international trade, The San Gabriel Valley, retains distinctive towns with colorful entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology and histories and identities. The Metro Gold Line connects Downtown education, with what you’ll fi nd limited only by how much with Pasadena, one of the region’s oldest cities and cultural centers you explore. with its world-class museums, great dining and restored Mission Revival, Craftsman, and period revival homes. With more than 1.5 Downtown – located near the home of the City’s original settlers, but million people, the San Gabriel Valley is one of the most ethnically not at its present-day center – challenges the outdated stereotypes diverse regions in the country, and a center of local Latino and about LA’s urban form. From the elegant cultural corridor emerging Asian culture. along Grand Avenue to the spectacularly restored Central Library and Angels’ Flight at the foot of Bunker Hill, visitors to downtown Northwest of Downtown, the hillside neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Los Angeles will encounter a downtown emerging in the arrival of Los Feliz, Echo Park, and Angelino Heights (the most signifi cant more than 20,000 new residential units, many developed through Victorian-era district in the City) defy the image of Los Angeles as 4 South Park Downtown Los Angeles A A B 8 9 5 6 4 10 11 E F D E W Olympic Blvd 7 1 D 3 2 6 Eateries Libations 1 Rivera $$$ 5 Original Pantry Café $ 9 Bar & Kitchen $$ Chic Mexican cuisine in a sleek, Classic downtown diner for both Market-driven California cuisine well-designed space. Creative power brokers and blue collar and well-crafted libations inside cocktails. workers. the boutique O Hotel. 1050 S. Flower Street, #102 877 S. Figueroa Street 819 S. Flower Street 213.749.1460 213.972.9279 213.784.3048 www.riverarestaurant.com www.pantrycafe.com www.barandkitchenla.com 2 Corkbar $$ 6 Colori Kitchen $$ 10 Golden Gopher $$ Dark and comfortable spot for Small trattoria serving fresh Dim drinking spot with witty innovative cocktails. Italian fare. touches and games. 403 W. 12th Street 429 W. 8th Street 417 W. 8th Street 213.746.0050 213.622.5950 213.614.8001 www.corkbar.com www.colorikitchen.com 3 Hygge Bakery $ 7 El Cholo $$ Destinations Danish delicacies in this A venerable family-owned 11 Ralph’s & Market Lofts $ modern bakery and café. Mexican restaurant, with vintage Mixed-use supermarket/ 1106 S. Hope Street photos of LA and memorabilia residential building opened 213.995.5022 lining the colorful walls. This in 2007. www.hyggebakery.com Mexican fare has changed little 645 W 9th Street since 1927. 213.452.0840 4 Magnolia $$$ 1037 S. Flower Street www.ralphs.com California cuisine and cocktails 213.746.7750 www.elcholo.com in a well-designed space. Grammy Museum 825 W. 9th Street 8 Riordan’s Tavern $ The GRAMMY Museum explores 213.362.0880 and celebrates the enduring www.magnoliala.com The interior is a tribute to east coast bars, with dark wood and legacies of all forms of music sports memorabilia. Their motto and the history of the premier is “Stiff Drinks and Great Steaks,” recognition of excellence in and they don’t disappoint. recorded music. 875 S. Figueroa Street 800 W. Olympic Boulevard 213.627.6879 213.765.6800 www.riordanstavern.com www.grammymuseum.org/ 7 Fashion District Downtown Los Angeles B F 6 5 3 4 1 2 7 E E D 8 D Eateries Destinations 1 Tiara Café $$ 4 Market Restaurant $ 6 FIDM Store & Museum $$ Colorful, whimsical space Located in the Cooper Building Fashion student’s work for-sale. with fresh