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City Council Committee Advances $1B Revamp of LA Convention Center
A Los Angeles City Council committee endorsed an effort to remodel the downtown Convention Center before the 2028 Olympics, although city leaders acknowledged the ambitious time frame for completing the $1-billion project, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The council’s Trade, Travel and Tourism Committee voted to spend up to $54.4 million for preconstruction work on the 53-year-old, city-owned Convention Center. The proposal now heads to the full City Council for a vote.
Over the past decade, various plans for modernizing the center, which opened in 1971, have been proposed but haven’t advanced. Business and labor leaders packed Tuesday’s meeting to support the project, arguing it would help the economy, create jobs and revitalize downtown, reported the Times.
If the Convention Center is expanded, the city would pay for the construction but the work would be done via a private-public partnership with Anschutz Entertainment Group, which runs the convention center, and development firm Plenary Group.
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