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DTLA’s Best People, Places Honored at Roses & Lemon Awards Breakfast

The Downtown Breakfast Club (DBC), comprised of community leaders and stakeholders, honored the best people and places in Downtown Los Angeles at its annual Roses & Lemon Awards breakfast recently. The Rose awards are given in recognition of the recipients’ commitment to DTLA and their spirited contributions and their role in the betterment of Downtown Los Angeles and the city as a whole

This year Roses winners included the following:

Residential

  • Market Rate: AVA Arts District
  • Permanent Supportive Housing: (tie) Lamp Lodge and 6th Street

We’ll Leave The Light On

  • AC Hotel

Arts and Culture

  • Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Annual New Year’s Celebration
  • Learning & Engagement, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles Libros Festival, Los Angeles Public Library
  • Keith Haring, Art is for Everybody, The Board

Downtown’s Delicious Comeback

  • Danae’s Diner
  • Baar Baar
  • Joyce Soul & Sea
  • Level 8

Workplace Interiors

  • TCW Group
  • Walter P Moore
  • Gensler, Los Angeles Office of the Future
  • McKinsey & Company
  • City National Bank Future of Work Pilot Project
  • Lincoln International

Loren Witken, president of Downtown Breakfast Club, was joined by Roses and Lemon Co-Chairs Travis Cullen and Barbara Dunn in the award ceremony. “After our pause during COVID, it’s great to see the energy and excitement returning and once again, pointing the spotlight on those who are contributing to our city’s future,” said Witken. “As LA faces many challenges, it’s good to know that there are so many ready to meet the challenges and move our city forward. Congratulations to all of our Rose winners.”

This year’s Lemon winner is a repeat offender: the blight of the Downtown Los Angeles skyline, as illustrated by Oceanwide Plaza, which has recently made headlines all over the world for the graffiti tagging that has taken over every floor.

Photo credit: Gary Leonard.

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