SOUTH-CENTRAL : Panel to Mull Fate of Riot-Torn Area
City Councilwoman Rita Walters has appointed 35 residents and business people to a community advisory board that will help devise plans to rebuild sections of Alameda and Central avenues damaged during last year’s riots.
Among those named to the board earlier this month are Juanita Tate of Concerned Citizens of South Central, Walid N. Abdallah of Family Farms Market and the Rev. James S. McKnight of the New Hope Baptist Church.
Committee members will focus on creating a development strategy for retail and commercial districts in the area bordered by Alameda and Central avenues to the east, Figueroa Street to the west, the Santa Monica Freeway to the north and 84th Street to the south.
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