LATC future cloudy again
The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-0 Wednesday to discard the results of a 2003 process that sought a management company for downtown’s Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Yet developer Tom Gilmore, whose proposal finished first in the preliminary results of that process, was optimistic after the vote. He had feared that the council would also move toward turning over LATC to a partnership between Latino Theater Company and the Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture.
The theater company had tentatively received a $4-million state grant for capital improvements at LATC, and its supporters cited a May deadline for them to be able to prove that the city would match the grant.
But council members indicated that they might start from scratch, with a new and improved request for proposals.
Latino Theater’s artistic director, Jose Luis Valenzuela, said that a new process “would be difficult for me, but if that’s what they want to do, that’s fine.”
Don Shirley
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