The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to move into the technical planning phase of a years-long project to convert the Los Angeles General Hospital campus in Boyle Heights into a \u201cHealthy Village\u201d of wellness services, housing and other neighborhood amenities.<\/p>\n
As part of the action spurred by Supervisor Hilda Solis, the county approved roughly $3.3 million in funding for a development team known as Centennial Partners to conduct the planning effort, which will include a thorough survey and analysis of land use at the campus, environmental conditions, engineering, transportation and parking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis historic project is about preserving our past while investing in our future,\u201d Solis said in a statement following the vote. \u201cWe are creating a community space that prioritizes housing, health care, sustainability and dignity for our most vulnerable. The General Hospital has long been a symbol of healing, and through this effort, it will continue to serve as a beacon of hope and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The motion approved unanimously by the board also directed county staff to apply to have the art-deco building added to the National Register of Historic Places, a move Solis said could free up preservation funding and tax credits to assist with the overall project cost.<\/p>\n
The building opened in 1934 and operated until it suffered structural damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment has been years in the making,\u201d Rosa Soto, executive director of The Wellness Center at General Hospital, said in a statement. \u201cFrom the beginning, we\u2019ve brought community voices to the table \u2014 not just to be heard, but to shape what this space becomes. The Healthy Village is a vision born from our community members\u2019 lived experiences, and this next phase is a powerful step toward making that vision real: housing that\u2019s affordable, care that\u2019s accessible, and a place where our families can truly thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The county Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to move into the technical planning phase of a years-long project…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[66890,1582,276,9361,834,57470,6478,2961,66891,224,5337,615,66892],"class_list":{"0":"post-103361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-advances","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-campus","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-healthy","14":"tag-hospital","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-laco","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-planning","20":"tag-village"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939223585576819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}