Downtown Los Angeles Tries To Improve Its Reputation

摘要

Construction is expected to begin by year's end on the first phase of a $1.8-billion redevelopment of a rundown swath of downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to the iconic Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall. The $750-million multi-use project, also designed by Geh-ry, is intended to be the big draw of the city's most ambitious push ever to give its derided center a lively, 21st Century "Main Street"