Central City West, Los Angeles

One of the earliest uses of the name "Central City West" was in 1986, when the city exempted the area from a slow-growth initiative.{{cite news |last1=Thomas |first1=Tracy |title=Exempting Areas from Growth Limits |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-first-mention-of-c/119559154/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=September 18, 1986}} In 1987, the Los Angeles Times reported that the "bet on the wrong side of the Harbor Freeway" was paying off with the construction of new office towers, including the $170 million Transpacific Center.{{cite news |last1=Rivera Brooks |first1=Nancy |title=Downtown's West Bank |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-central-city-west/119559271/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=November 23, 1987}} The area was now being referred "The West Bank" and the Los Angeles Times noted that Asian financing was behind the highrise construction in the neighborhood.{{cite news |title=City Hall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/la-weekly-central-city-west-west-bank/119559421/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=LA Weekly |date=March 10, 1988}} In October 1988, consultants were hired to develop a strategy to create an identifiable community out of a "confused no-man's land between the Harbor Freeway and the Westlake District". Consultants stated that the area was a "twin" to downtown, rather than a "challenge".{{cite news |title=City West: Planning Areas Density |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-central-city-west/119559552/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=March 20, 1988}}

In 2007, developer Geoff Palmer was attracting criticism for his apartment complexes because they did not include a low-income housing component.{{cite news |last1=Tamaki |first1=Julie |title=Builder attracts praise and criticism |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-affordable-housing/119557867/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=June 7, 2003}} In 2006, he had applied for the Piero II, and requested that the City waive the affordable housing requirements.{{Cite web|last=CP&DR|title=Court Rules L.A. Inclusionary Housing Mandate Violates State Law|url=http://www.cp-dr.com/articles/node-2401|access-date=2021-05-30|website=www.cp-dr.com|language=en-US}} The City denied the waiver and Palmer sued the city (Palmer/Sixth Street Properties LP v. City of Los Angeles), claiming the affordable housing zoning requirements in the Central City West specific plan violated the Costa-Hawkins Act.{{Cite web|title=FindLaw's California Court of Appeal case and opinions.|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1077003.html|access-date=2021-05-30|website=Findlaw|language=en-US}} In 2009, Palmer won his case when the California Court of Appeal ruled that "as applied to Palmer's proposed project, the affordable housing ordinance conflicts with and is preempted by the vacancy decontrol provisions of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act."

In 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported that with Dreamgirls and Numb3rs filming at Los Angeles Center Studios, the city’s decades-old vision for City West was finally being fulfilled. In 2007, an economic downturn halted construction in the area, but by 2011, construction of apartment buildings in the neighborhood resumed.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Dakota |title=Downtown's 1111 Wilshire Will Break Ground in April |url=https://la.curbed.com/2011/2/14/10482384/downtowns-1111-wilshire-will-break-ground-in-april |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Curbed.com |date=February 14, 2011}}

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According to the Los Angeles Times, Central City West is a 465-acre area downtown designed as a "self-contained urban village." It is bounded by the Harbor Freeway on the east, the Hollywood Freeway on the north and Olympic Boulevard on the south. The western border consists of Glendale Boulevard, Whitmer Street, Union Street, and Albany Street.{{cite news |title=Development Gets Go-Ahead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-central-city-west/119559865/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=January 30, 1991}}{{cite news |title=Central City West (Map) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-central-city-west/119556259/ |access-date=4 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=May 22, 1990}}

• Beaudry Center - 333 S. Beaudry. LAUSD headquarters{{cite web |title=City West - Beaudry Center |url=https://downtownla.com/building/beaudry-center |website=DowntownLA.com |access-date=5 October 2023}}
• Arco Tower - 1055 W. 7th Street {{cite web |title=City West - 1055 W. 7th Street |url=https://downtownla.com/building/1055-w-7th-street |website=DowntownLA.com |access-date=5 October 2023}}
• 1100 Wilshire - 2nd tallest residential building in Southern California.{{cite web |title=City West- 1100 Wilshire |url=https://downtownla.com/building/1111-s-hill-st |website=DowntownLA.com |access-date=5 October 2023}}
• Los Angeles Center Studios - a 20-acre film production facility.{{cite news |last1=Mia DiMassa |first1=Cara |title=City West Catches Up With the Vision |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-15-me-citywest15-story.html |access-date=6 October 2023 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=March 15, 2006|quote=How the studios went from an abandoned corporate headquarters to a flourishing center of industry is a dramatic example of a transformation unfolding on the west side of Harbor Freeway. The wave of gentrification that started in the rest of downtown in the late 1990s has finally reached the area known as City West. }}

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• [https://www.zipdatamaps.com/neighborhood/california/los-angeles/City-West] Map of City West

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