When the first adaptive resue loft dwellers moved to Downtown Los Angeles, we moved into a wasteland of abandoned buildings and sidewalks filled with drug dealers. It was like the Wild West with few public or private services. We had to build our own communities and we quickly discovered we needed to develop on-line forums to reach out and communicate with each other..
Concurrenlty, private/public partnerships were developed such as Business Improvement Districts where property owners taxed themslves to provide the basic public services the government provided in more established parts of the city and local neighborhoods councils were formed to allow all types of stakeholders from shops owners and residents to the homeless and artists could communicate with and work with each other and with the City of Los Angeles.
And just as we have... finally... developed multiple fully functioning, walkable, liveable communities, the City of Los Angeles is facing billion dollar budget deficits that will force a dramatic cut in public services.
This is happening as LA is losing jobs faster than other major cities, entire industries are leaving the Los Angeles due to its misguided policies and LA will have less and less money to spend on services due to its skyrocketing pension costs.
Our panel will discuss how we used public private partnerships to provide more services for less money, how we have built a financially sustainable community where increasing numbers of residents walk to work from their homes, and a community where more businesses are expanding than closing and increasing numbers of jobs are being created while the opposite is happening everywhere else in the city.
And the panelists will be those who helped create the local BIDS, neighborhood councils, Gallery Row, the Art Walk, Fashion Walk, Fashion Week, multiple business incubators and the single most walkable community in Los Angeles.
We used the latest in 2.0 web techniques to build an old fashioned small town community in the middle of the big city.
Concurrenlty, private/public partnerships were developed such as Business Improvement Districts where property owners taxed themslves to provide the basic public services the government provided in more established parts of the city and local neighborhoods councils were formed to allow all types of stakeholders from shops owners and residents to the homeless and artists could communicate with and work with each other and with the City of Los Angeles.
And just as we have... finally... developed multiple fully functioning, walkable, liveable communities, the City of Los Angeles is facing billion dollar budget deficits that will force a dramatic cut in public services.
This is happening as LA is losing jobs faster than other major cities, entire industries are leaving the Los Angeles due to its misguided policies and LA will have less and less money to spend on services due to its skyrocketing pension costs.
Our panel will discuss how we used public private partnerships to provide more services for less money, how we have built a financially sustainable community where increasing numbers of residents walk to work from their homes, and a community where more businesses are expanding than closing and increasing numbers of jobs are being created while the opposite is happening everywhere else in the city.
And the panelists will be those who helped create the local BIDS, neighborhood councils, Gallery Row, the Art Walk, Fashion Walk, Fashion Week, multiple business incubators and the single most walkable community in Los Angeles.
We used the latest in 2.0 web techniques to build an old fashioned small town community in the middle of the big city.
