Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then, construction on the $1.2 billion redevelopment of the downtown Bunker Hill area, scheduled to begin this summer, should be done. (It is as if the city had decided, belatedly, to build a there there.) But will L.A. be a pleasant place? According to the U.S.C. study, the metropolis is heading for housing that is still more expensive, traffic that is slower, and public schools abandoned entirely to the poor. Technicians will be in demand, while jobs for blue-collar workers will be scarce. Crime will spill over into fancy neighborhoods...
...sure, L.A.'s Japanese Americans have good reason to feel established, if not superior. A neighborhood of Japanese immigrants was thriving downtown in Little Tokyo when Beverly Hills was empty land. The area, which was renamed Bronzeville during World War II when its residents were interned, has been retaken by the Japanese, and is again a main gathering spot for 175,000 Japanese-Americans scattered around the county. A brand new, $12.6 million cultural complex provides reminders of home: a lush, still garden of camphor and golden-rain trees, a sleek theater for Japanese-language productions, a brick plaza...
...greatest accomplishment of White's early years was the development of the downtown. One of the worst legacies of his last term in the polarization between the neighborhoods and business interests who want to put the Hub on the fast track to megabucks. The next City Hall administration will have in successfully mediate between...
...First National Bank of Chicago "just caved in," says Norman Watkins, a worker at the Chicago branch of CALC. Weighing financial balances, the bank decided to forego its commission on the nearly $10 million in Krugerrands that it handled each year. "There is now no major bank in downtown Chicago that sells or handles Krugerrands," Watkins says...
Kirkland will appear on tomorrow morning's edition of NBC's "Today" show, which will be broadcast from Quincy Market in downtown Boston...