L.A. Live Gets Top Prize as Downtown News Recognizes 12 Standout Projects From 2008
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Despite the shadow of economic crisis hanging over the region, more than 300 Downtown Los Angeles business leaders, elected officials, representatives of cultural institutions and other stakeholders gathered last week to shine a celebratory light on the projects that pressed on in 2008.

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Winners this year were Urth Caffe’s headquarters in the Art District; REDCAT’s adventurous programming on Bunker Hill; Inner-City Arts’ campus expansion in Central City East; the Yale Terrace affordable housing complex in Chinatown; Vista Hermosa Natural Park in City West; the Roosevelt Lofts in the Financial District; L.A. Live in the Figueroa Corridor; a trio of Historic Core film festivals (Last Remaining Seats, the Jules Verne Festival and the Downtown Film Festival); Nisei Week in Little Tokyo; apartment complex 717 Olympic in South Park; Philippe The Original’s 100th birthday in El Pueblo/Union Station; and TenTen Wilshire in City West.

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