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Good Morning, 

It would be great if we made the Chinatown Area of Fresno like LA
Live. The Press Release of LA Live will outline the purpose and
benefits of this project.
      
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Office of the Mayor 
City of Los Angeles 
ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 12, 2006 

MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA SUPPORTS PARTNERSHIP TO ENSURE
CONSTRUCTION OF CONVENTION CENTER HEADQUARTERS HOTEL, LINCHPIN OF
LA Live! Downtown Project [How do you insure these ensurences?
Hopefully these promises are more credible than campaign
promises.]

(Los Angeles) – Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today joined Tim J.
Leiweke, President and CEO of AEG as he announced AEG and KB Home
will partner to finance the development of the Convention Center
Headquarters Hotel, the linchpin LA Live! downtown project. The
Mayor strongly supports the partnership which will accelerate
building the Convention Center Headquarters Hotel. 

“This partnership will ensure [at least promises, if not delivers]
that LA Live and the hotel not only come to fruition [or at least
fantasy] but will make Los Angeles the entertainment capital of the
West Coast,” said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. [Is that all it
takes? One hotel!]

“Furthermore, [don’t say ‘furthermore’ you haven’t really said
anything yet] the Convention Center Headquarters Hotel is
absolutely necessary if Los Angeles wants to have a convention
center that is able to compete with other convention centers in the
region.” [If the nation’s second biggest City isn’t even
competitive with the region…save your time and money, now. This
isn’t the answer. (No casinos!) Everyone visits and moves to LA
because they like LA: So you want to completely change into being
just like everywhere else. ZONE AWAY, A-HOLES!]

The AEG and KB Home partnership will ensure [at least hope] that
the four-star hotel will become a reality for downtown Los Angeles.
[But that reality may not include enough demand or occupancy.] 

LA Live! A multi-use development, is critical to the revitalization
of downtown Los Angeles [developers’ bank accounts] and fulfills
the Mayor’s vision to make downtown one of the most recognized and
attractive areas not only in the City but in the country as well.
[Designed in his own image! And by the way, this doesn’t fulfill
it. That happens when it is completed and operational.]

When [If] completed, it will serve to attract more than 10 million
visitors [How? I don’t see] which in turn will infuse $9 billion
into the economy and create more than 25,000 jobs. [That’ll be the
day that Jesus walks into the CRA office to apply for some of the
mandatory affordable housing that those sunset clauses have a way
of setting on.]

The project covers six city blocks in the South Park neighborhood
and will be the signature of the neighborhood. Restaurants,
nightclubs, sports bars, [instead of the types of amenities people
will still have to go to Silverlake or Pasedena to get] high
density housing, [yeah, The Ritz Carlton Condo; that’s what they
are calling “housing’] a 7,100 seat state-of-the art theater, radio
and television broadcast facilities [glad we are building those.
Maybe they can build some practical housing and needed community
amenities]; offices and the Convention Headquarters Hotel are all
components of this new entertainment district. [And “entertaining”
is the big crisis the city is facing! I heard Bratton say just the
other day, “We can’t entertain our way out of this.” I tend to
disagree. And I happen to know from inside sources, entertaining
are also big issues at LAUSD and all the social services. And the
middle class being pushed out of town in the other parts of
town...they demand more entertaining, too!]

The hotel [Ritz Carlton and Five Star Marriott, nothing most
tourists or business conventions will be able to afford] will have
1,100 rooms as well as meeting, ballroom and amenity space of
approximately 185,000 square feet. [To go along with all the
convention space, already not being used, because it's too
expensive to get downtown from the airport -- and too much traffic
-- and, well...skid-you-know-what' in addition to the new
convention center Janice Hahn wants to build near the airport. I
hope people that go to conventions start having a lot of babies!]

Mayor Villaraigosa broke ground on LA Live! on September 15, 2005 

The Convention Center Headquarters Hotel will feature spectacular
rooms that will provide views to the Westside and downtown skyline.
[Overlooking all the problems these projects not only won’t solve,
but add to.]