KCBS: Plan To Revitalize Downtown L.A. Approved
Just what LA needs...high rise condos. Wouldn't you just love to be on the 50th floor when the San Andreas Fault decides to relocate itself a few hundred feet lower?

A plan that would alter the downtown skyline by creating a dense urban center of high-rises, shopping centers and parkland around the Disney Concert Hall was approved by the city and county. Authorities hope the Grand Avenue project approved Monday will provide a nucleus for the kind of core that Los Angeles has lacked -- a place where people both work and live. Currently, the area empties at night as workers return to the suburbs...The project calls for five high-rises -- four 30-story condominium buildings and a 40- to 50-story hotel and condominium complex. There would be a 16-acre park linking Bunker Hill and the Civic Center, a supermarket and 400,000 square feet of retail space that would include a bookstore and multi-screen movie theater.