Useful tools available to help protect buildings and avoid demolition

Sierra Madre established its historic preservation program in 1987 with the adoption of a historic preservation ordinance.  However, in 1997, the City amended the ordinance language to make landmark designation voluntary for property owners, and the following year placed a measure on the ballot to de-list 29 landmarks.  Preservation advocates countered with a legal case […]

Following years of uncertainty there are plans to reinvest in the 1959 UCLA Faculty Center.

As original residents left Wilshire for the suburbs, historic neighborhoods filled with new populations who have made these areas their own. The MacArthur Park area is now predominantly Latinx (including large numbers of people from Southern Mexico and Central America), and the area around Wilshire Center represents the highest population of Koreans outside of Seoul. […]

Cudahy does not currently have a historic preservation ordinance. This 1.2 square mile city located in southeast Los Angeles County conducted a citywide residential survey in 1984 that identified 21 structures.  While no survey updates have been completed since that time, the City has expressed interest in conducting an update in the near future.  Working […]