Support small businesses this holiday season
Holiday shopping season has begun in earnest, and this year it’s more important than ever to support your local small businesses! Here are just a few recommendations to consider. All [continue reading]
Hear the sounds of the Crenshaw Corridor on Terrace Martin’s new album
Terrace Martin has produced records with some of hip hop’s biggest names, but now he returns to his own music — bringing his south L.A. roots to the forefront. If [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund Spotlight: Love’s Furniture
Metro’s Business Interruption Fund was started to assist small businesses that may be impacted by construction of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line, the Little Tokyo area along the Regional Connector and Phase [continue reading]
Business Interruption Fund spotlight: Southern Girl Desserts
Metro’s Business Interruption Fund was started to assist small businesses that may be impacted by construction of Metro’s Crenshaw/LAX line, the Little Tokyo area along the Regional Connector and Phase [continue reading]
Metro Art hosts free design workshops with local teens for Crenshaw/LAX Line
Local high school students have been meeting this summer to help design a monumental mural for the Crenshaw/Expo Station construction fence that will celebrate the surrounding neighborhood. Through the nonprofit organization artworxLA and under the guidance of professional artist Michael Alvarez, workshops have been staged at nearby Lula Washington Dance Theatre, where students [continue reading]
Delegation of engineers from China visits Crenshaw/LAX Line construction site
A delegation of 32 engineers from China visited a Crenshaw/LAX Line construction site last week while they were participating in the International Conference on Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering and International Chinese Transportation Professional Association (IACGE/ICTPA). The visit was one of the highlights of IACGE/ICTPA, an annual conference which rotates internationally between cities [continue reading]
Eat, Shop, Play Crenshaw: Community Fest in Leimert Park March 21
Come out and support local businesses! Eat, Shop, Play Crenshaw is hosting a community festival in Leimert Park Village on Saturday, Mar. 21. The free event will take place from 10 [continue reading]
Art for the Expo Line: Willie Middlebrook’s Designs for Expo/Crenshaw Station
As construction of the Expo Line moves forward, many new features of the stations are starting to take shape. The canopies are in place and pavers line the walkway. But there are a few painted steel support structures on the platforms that are noticeably empty. That’s because those structures will [continue reading]
Draft study for Westside Subway Extension released; among the details — it would be a 25-minute ride from Union Station to Westwood
Let’s start with this fun fact: When the Westside Subway Extension is built, it will take 25 minutes to travel from Los Angeles Union Station to the Westwood/UCLA station — 13 minutes on the existing Purple Line to Wilshire and Western and a little more than 12 minutes on the [continue reading]
Crenshaw light rail and Green Line extension take small step forward
Two projects — an extension of the Green Line and the Crenshaw Corridor — got a wee bit of a boost in the Metro Board of Directors’ planning committee on Wednesday afternoon. First, the committee asked for a more detailed environmental study on an extension of the Green Line to [continue reading]