“I would be disgusted if we had to drive through downtown Los Angeles for generations and see buildings marking the city skyline that were achieved through bribery and corruption,” said Councilman Paul Krekorian, who has also proposed barring developers implicated in criminal conduct from getting any future approvals. — The Los Angeles Times
Emily Alpert Reyes of The Los Angeles Times takes a look at the handful of projects that have been tied to an ongoing federal corruption investigation targeting Los Angeles City Council member Jose Huizar and investigates how planning approvals for some those projects may be impacted by their connections to the probe.
The projects include a proposed 77-story tower initiated by Chinese developer Shenzhen New World and designed by Dimarzio | Kato architecture that was once projected to become the tallest building in the city. At least three other projects have been connected to the probe. A proposed two-towered development created by Gensler for developers Shenzhen Hazens Real Estate Group recently lost its project approvals due to its ties to the investigation.
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The rendering of that 333 Fig tower in the header above is laughable. How is a 77-story building somehow 5x the height of its 40-story neighbor to the left?
Sing it, Renee.
(No idea if she's referring to her family's Chicago edifice.)
On the subject of corrupt council members and/or commissioners behind approvals for big projects? Who could've possibly guessed? Most of Huizar's family is involved; maybe they can get a (cell) block rate at Folsom.
It seems likely that several of his fellow policymakers are equally corrupt. Jail each one in a column rebar cage at the tainted project, then livestream the concrete pour. I'll pay to watch.
Then seize all the ill-gotten profits, bribes, interest, piggy banks, you name it. Use those funds to subsidize new occupancy of the impacted buildings as affordable housing.
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