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        Monday, May 29, 2006

AP
Hollywood beckons as LA's hot new ZIP code

Sign that is right around the corner from The H.L.

this sign is right around the corner from The H.L.LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's best days were behind her. The glamour of the '20s had long ago been replaced by crime and grime. Teenage runaways mingled with prostitutes at the city's most storied intersection, Hollywood and Vine.
Yet something curious happened. Hollywood refused to fade away.
The first signs of life surfaced a decade ago with new nightclubs and restaurants. Now, people are flocking to Hollywood to live in thousands of luxury condos and apartments.
More than $1 billion in residential development is slated for a few blocks surrounding Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street — an unprecedented buildup designed to bring the "It" factor back to a place that once was the epicenter of cool.
All this prompted developers to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to revitalize the area's entertainment core, anchored by the Hollywood & Highland Center, home of the Kodak Theatre and the Academy Awards.
Now Hollywood is a place to be rather than flee, with more than 3,500 residential units in the works.
Hollywood's hip factor will also be boosted by the arrival of a W Hotel at Hollywood and Vine as part of a $500 million retail-residential project with more than 300 apartments and 150 condos.
Not everyone is happy with the plan. About 30 local businesses are being forced to vacate after the city invoked eminent domain.
Bob Blue, who owns a luggage shop opened by his father in 1946, has twice sued to stop the project. He lost the first lawsuit but feels confident he can win on the eminent domain issue.
"Hollywood is reviving without any government help or eminent domain," Blue said. "It does seem wrong that things are going good, and you're getting kicked out."
Rents now run as much as $2,400 a month for an 800-square-foot apartment, compared to about $800 a decade ago.

H.L.s Take: Hollywood is the happening place to be. They are going to throw a bunch of business owners out who have been in the same spot for 50 years. So they can build ANOTHER Big Megamall, which will create even MORE traffic for the people who live here. They get rich, we get screwed. The L.A. City council in Hollywood is a bunch of whores, if there is a buck to be made, they will screw over the public every time.
So prices are sky high, rents are sky high, a bunch of the rich and famous are moving in. But who was here first??? Thats right baby. H.L, up in here from the get go. Turning Hollywood into the place to be, Of course it is, and we are right in the middle of it all. The Liberal capital of America. Stay with us for all that good s**t.