Wilshire Grand Redevelopment

Wilshire Grand Redevelopment

Tom Walsh

Richard Slawson


Councilwoman Jan Perry


With the Wilshire Grand Staff


James A. Thomas

Yesterday, Hanjin International Corporation and Korean Air, working with developer Thomas Properties Group, announced the redevelopment of the Wilshire Grand Hotel and Centre at a press conference.

This project will transform a full city block at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles by replacing the existing, aging Wilshire Grand Hotel and office building with a new mixed-use development including a new four-plus star hotel, a new office building, residential, and amenities including restaurants, retail shops, and landscaped pedestrian plaza.

The good news are that this project will also create an estimated 7,000 on-site construction jobs and an additional 5,000 construction-related jobs for the city of Los Angeles.

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Downtown Women's Center- Grand Opening! (Pictures)

CONRAD N. HILTON Foundation Kicks Off 5-Year Drive To End Chronic Homelessness in Los Angeles with $13 MILLION in Grants

Supporting an initiative by the Los Angeles Business Leaders Task Force on Homelessness to end chronic and veteran homelessness in Los Angeles County within five years, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation today announced $13 million in grants to fund key components of the campaign.


- $9 million to catalyze the creation of 2,500 new permanent supportive housing units
- $3.6 million to identify and house 4,500 of the most vulnerable people on the streets
- $330,000 to The Downtown Women's Center to implement Critical Time Intervention, an innovative program of intensive services for 80 chronically homeless women to help them transition into permanent housingfor an innovative pilot program to ease the transition into housing
- $200,000 to engage faith leaders and communities in the campaign

For more information, please visit http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/