Plan to Convert Cannery to Retail Use Gets Boost
A controversial proposal to renovate a Wilmington pet food cannery into a restaurant and retail complex received a significant boost this week when the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted to back designating the building as a city landmark.
The landmark status for the Heinz pet food cannery--which must be approved by the City Council--is important to Wilmington community activists, who are battling the Port of Los Angeles over the future of the building.
The cannery is expected to close down Dec. 1. and port officials want to raze it to make way for an expanded equipment storage yard. But community leaders want to preserve the 71-year-old cannery for inclusion in what will be Wilmington’s first commercial and recreational development near the waterfront.
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