Wilshire Grand Project Approved By L.A. City Council

Los Angeles Times:

The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to throw its support behind an elaborate package of new flashing signs, illuminated graphics and moving text for two planned downtown skyscrapers, ignoring critics who warned that such brightly lighted images would degrade the look of the city.

Councilman Bill Rosendahl cast the lone vote against the plan.

Minutes after the initial vote, the City Council reconsidered the sign district. During that second vote, Rosendahl agreed to stay out of the room, making the decision unanimous and avoiding the need for a vote next week.

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Comments

[romeoforever]

11:34 AM on 03/30/2011

Would be nice if the development would continue on up Wilshire so we could get back Wilshire Center with all that nostalgic architecture like the Park View Hotel. MacArthur Park has been improved, but we could go a lot further to bring all that back to reconnect downtown with the west side.

[lipstickpig]

11:32 AM on 03/30/2011

Good- Now we don't need the NFL Stadium-

[leorangerie]

11:29 AM on 03/30/2011

LA needs the construction jobs and the business revenue. It is a money vote, pure and simple.

[JScott]

11:20 AM on 03/30/2011

So the LA of Blader Runner is being realiized eh?

Flying cars are next, then replicants then.....

[romeoforever]

11:28 AM on 03/30/2011

We already have replicants. It's known as plastic surgery.

[romeoforever]

11:00 AM on 03/30/2011

They have been trying and failing for decades to bring back downtown. Maybe this will give it some sense of place after all the development that has been done. Every newcomer I've known that tried to live downtown soon realized west of LaBrea was where they wanted to be. Sure, glitz up downtown. Couldn't hurt.

[zombywulf]

03:32 AM on 03/30/2011

The council also voted to rename LA to LAS Vegas West and designate the area as a Ranchiria. The vote on the new indian casinos will be next week.

[studioh!]

10:23 PM on 03/29/2011

high.sign.

[Drew Puli Wolf]

08:24 PM on 03/29/2011

Actually one of the major attractions of Tokyo is its signs. LA is no Paris, and never will be. Bight signs is an Asian and Latin thing – that is the kind of city LA is and we should embrace it. I think the signs will look neat.

[ViktorN]

02:04 AM on 03/30/2011

When I look at Asian cities with their relentless advertising, I think, "here's a society whose primary values are a miserable, crass obsession with consumerism and materialism."

Why would we want to emulate that? Are these the values we want to promote?

[romeoforever]

11:20 AM on 03/30/2011

C'mon Viktor, we're talking about LA here. LOL

[Drew Puli Wolf]

03:49 PM on 03/30/2011

Let see lively exciting places that entice people come and participate, or boring pretentious architecture that is lifeless? I think I will take the former. Tokyo is one of the most exciting cities in the world, if LA could come close to it I would be one happy Angelino.

[jimmygeewhiz]

07:11 PM on 03/29/2011

That should add a lot of stature to the city and bring in tourists by the droves. At least they didn't pay any attention to the people who elected them and I'm sure it won't cost anybody there a red penny. Keeping up the image LA has as kind of a tinselly town will continue thanks to those whose pockets were greased.