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$2B development planned for 7.6-acre site in Skid Row
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LOS ANGELES - A development company announced Friday it hopes to build a $2 billion mixed-use project on a 7.6-acre site in the Skid Row area.
Denver-based Continuum Partners submitted an application for the project, called Fourth & Central for its intersection, to city planners on Thursday, a spokesman said.
The project would be different from FLOR 401 Lofts, a supportive housing community that opened in the heart of Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
The development would include 1,521 residential units, 401,000 square feet of office space, 93,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and a 68-room hotel. The plan includes 10 distinct buildings ranging from two to 42 stories tall.
Humanitarian Day reborn, Umar Hakim celebrates Ramadan his way
‘Humanitarian Day embodies why Islam is relevant in America today,’ said a Black Muslim activist of Hakim’s signature event.
People work together during a pre-COVID Humanitarian Day event in Southern California. Video screengrab
April 30, 2021
(RNS) Last year, Ramadan ended just days before the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as the first wave of COVID-19 was beginning to intensify. It was the beginning of a year when the burden and isolation of the pandemic left Black Muslim organizers like Umar Hakim feeling depleted on the one hand, and targeted on the other.