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LA Times Today: Can a giant, empty Sears building help solve homelessness in Los Angeles?

LA Times Today: Can a giant, empty Sears building help solve homelessness in Los Angeles?

Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

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When Sears shut down its catalog business in 1992, its 1.6 million square-foot, Boyle Heights distribution center was no longer needed.

L.A. Times columnist Gustavo Arellano explained why a Los Angeles developer who once planned to transform it into an office space complex decided to scrap that idea and turn it into a campus that will better the lives of the unhoused.

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