Urban Partners
Founding principal at Urban Partners LLC, he's also working for the non-profit George Crenshaw Development Company that is helping develop around the planned Crenshaw Line; former economic development deputy to Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas
Herzog & de Meuron in the Arts District; OMA in Santa Monica At the intersection of Alameda and 6th Streets in the Arts District, the Irvine-based developer SunCal has plans for a combination of office, live-work and retail space, on a site the size of 11 football fields. The Swiss architecture firm of Herzog & de Meuron is proposing an alternative to car-centric LA -- a high and low-rise combination of work, home and shopping. Meanwhile, in Santa Monica OMA has designed a hotel, residential and office complex for a "superblock" at 4th and Arizona. Will these projects take LA into the future or meet resistance to their height and density?
Complications for the Crenshaw Line Leimert Park fought hard for a station on the new Crenshaw Line—and it’s going to get one. But that’s produced unintended consequences: businesses and organizations that make the neighborhood central to LA’s black culture are being driven out because of increased property values.
The City of Inglewood Looks to the Future The City of Inglewood may have fallen on hard times, but boosters have local officials dreaming about Pasadena—or at least Culver City. The Fabulous Forum will re-open in January, and conversion of the Hollywood Park racetrack into a major mixed-use complex is back on. We’ll hear from an enthusiastic Mayor James Butts—and from others who say, “don’t hold your breath.”
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.