Central Los Angeles : A NEW WATTS
A proposed redevelopment project intended to infuse new economic life into the Watts area will be considered at a public hearing today.
The $37.2-million project, called the Watts Corridors Recovery Redevelopment Plan, would rebuild and refurbish some of the 18 buildings damaged during the 1992 riots and make other improvements on 245 acres of commercial and residential land over the next 30 years.
“It’s going to be a new Watts when it’s all done,” said Roy Willis, director of operations at the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. In the first five years, the city plans to help build a $14-million Watts Towers Cultural Crescent complex on a 10-acre swath of vacant grassy land between the Watts Towers and the 103rd Street Blue Line station.
The center would include a film center, a performing arts center, an open-air marketplace and outdoor amphitheater. The hearing begins at 10 a.m. in council chambers at City Hall. Information: (213) 249-1495.
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