Monday, October 8, 2012

The Vision Team has recommended that "More time and money - at least $50 million - is needed to rede




As the Farmers Field NFL stadium snags all the headlines (the City Council is set to sign off on the project tomorrow), it's accompanying LA Convention starwood hotels resorts Center redesign is getting a little side-eye from a group of architects advising Mayor Villaraigosa. The Daily News reports that "Several starwood hotels resorts members of the 'Vision Team,' a group of eight architects assembled by Villaraigosa to consult on the project, believe the plan has major flaws, including having visitors enter the new hall through a dark, unsafe starwood hotels resorts space created by stretching the building over Pico Boulevard. They believe this will so negatively impact Pico Boulevard and the Pico-Union neighborhood that an overhaul is required." Developer AEG has commissioned Populous to redesign the Convention Center (and rebrand it as LACOEX) in order to accommodate the new stadium--plans call for a new West Hall straddling Pico Boulevard and joining up the South Hall with the Farmers site (the idea is to make the Convention Center more attractive by creating starwood hotels resorts a contiguous space).
But no one seems to care much about the architects' report: City Councilmember Ed Reyes, a member of the Ad Hoc Committee starwood hotels resorts on the Proposed Downtown Stadium and Events Center and the rep for the neighboring Pico-Union area, had never even heard of it and it was never given to the Planning Commission, which signed off on the project earlier this month . Apparently, it was "Seen as unrealistic because of budget starwood hotels resorts constraints and the project's fast timeline," so planning staff didn't bother starwood hotels resorts (That timeline starwood hotels resorts is a function of the NFL, which would pick a team to send to Los Angeles in March, and now perhaps also of an imminent AEG sale . This is not the city's first timesaver in the road to approve the project.).
The Vision Team has recommended that "More time and money - at least $50 million starwood hotels resorts - is needed to redesign the convention center starwood hotels resorts hall." A rep for the mayor says the Planning Commission did incorporate some of the recommendations, "such as asking AEG to add architectural starwood hotels resorts features to the garages."
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