Preservation News

By Hillsman Wright, Executive Director, Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation

This article was published by the Daily Breeze on March 10, 2010. To view it directly on their website, click here.
 
Community Leaders Scramble to Keep San Pedro's Warner Grand Open
 
By Donna Littlejohn
 

The ADSLA Preservation Committee is committed to identifying Art Deco and streamline moderne buildings for evaluation and consideration for Historic Cultural Monument designation. Our goal in 2010 is to prepare and submit nomination documents for HCM designation for at least three (3) buildings. We have begun the process of identifying candidates for nomination.

The draft proposal for the Historic Preservation Ordinance for the city of Los Angeles (worked on in part by the ADSLA) was sent to the City Attorney’s office after the Planning Commission’s 7-1 vote in favor of the adoption. It is the understanding of the ADSLA that the ordinance will be passed on to the City Council for the final vote as early as March 2010. There remains strong opposition to the approved draft ordinance by influential Downtown property owners, many of whom do not own historic buildings.
 

 
The ADSLA Preservation Committee prepared a letter of support for the nomination for a four unit apartment building located at 844 Plymouth Boulevard. The HCM was approved in November and this fine example of streamline moderne architecture has been protected!