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What Will Save Westwood?
May 6, 2008
Source: Los Angeles Times

Though it may be a surprise to those who come to party there on Saturday nights, Westwood Village is trouble. The venerable retail area adjacent to the University of California, Los Angeles, has been in slow decline for decades due to gang activity and empty storefronts. However, the Los Angeles Times reports, a burst of construction activity promises to restore Westwood to its former glory.

This burst includes the 350-unit Palazzo Westwood Village on Glendon Avenue as well as developer Kambiz Hekmat's extended-stay boutique hotel that, once completed, will feature shops and restaurants. A modernist-style retail project is slated for the former site of the recently razed Mann National Theater.

 
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