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Koreatown development with affordable housing units. Photo by T.Kelley.
The Los Angeles Times reports on a city bond measure that would allocate $1 billion for affordable housing projects citywide. Zoning laws and community opposition could thwart Measure H and developers are finding land costs skyrocketing in previously more affordable areas like Koreatown and downtown.
One solution is […]

A new high-rise project begins on this empty, sandy lot, but will soon dominate the Koreatown skyline.

Mega-developers Legacy Partners, the same company behind an ambitious project at Hollywood and Vine, have now got big plans for Koreatown. We’ve reported on the 22-story Mercury building on Wilshire and Western, but this new project on the southwest […]

Part 4 in a special report on Koreatown development
Demographer Peter A. Morrison, whose research on Koreatown housing patterns uses 2000 Census figures, found a growing discrepancy between rental prices and what different ethnic groups were able or willing to pay. He said Asians in Koreatown are trending upward in the local housing market as more […]

Part 3 in a special report on Koreatown development

Part 2 in a special report on Koreatown development

Oxford Associates’ project at James M Wood and Oxford Avenue.
In the western part of Koreatown, around Western and Wilshire, is a cluster of luxury development projects. Starting five blocks south of Wilshire Boulevard and three blocks east of Western Avenue, next door to Harvard Elementary School, you […]

Wilshire/Vermont development by Urban Partners, LLC. Photos by T.Kelley.
Part 1 in a special tour of Koreatown development
Walking along the streets of Koreatown, a community once bruised and burned during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, any observer would sense that something is quickly changing in what is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods of the […]