Which Way, L.A.?
Mixing Environmentalism and Business at the Port of LA
AltaSea is a project to transform a 100-year-old pier at the Port of Los Angeles into something new and different. Supporters promise the world's only "ocean-based ideas and innovation center" for an ultimate cost of $500 million. Today, 500 people gathered for the latest phase of development.
By Warren Olney • • 21m ListenAltaSea is a project to transform a 100-year-old pier at the Port of Los Angeles into something new and different. Supporters promise the world's only "ocean-based ideas and innovation center" for an ultimate cost of $500 million. Today, 500 people gathered for the latest phase of development.
Also, San Fernando Democrat Brad Sherman talks about Benjamin Netanyahyu's upcoming speech to Congress, and we hear from a self-declared "job pirate" who's tried 82 different kinds of working.
Photo: The AltaSea site as it exists now, a waterfront landscape of large, empty port warehouses from the last century. (Saul Gonzalez)
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