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- It was sold in 2021 to New York developers after a contentious bidding process and protests from neighborhood activists who hoped to acquire the property for a community-owned project.
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May 17, 2019 · In 1925, the Los Angeles Investment Company opened tracts for the upper-class neighborhood of View Park, on the slopes of Baldwin Hills alongside Angeles Mesa Drive. In 1927, the Walter H....
- Baldwin Hills Communities Begin to Develop in The 1920s
- One of The First Racially Integrated Neighborhoods in The Area
- A Disaster Transforms The Area
- More Black Families Begin to Move to Baldwin Hills
- Today’S Changes in The Area
The rolling hills in South Los Angeles that now hosts these neighborhoods were once part of the Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera, eventually owned by the randy, wily 19th century L.A. pioneer Elias “Lucky” Baldwin. In the early 20th century, these lawless, uninhabited hills were best known for the rough and tumble oil derricks that punctured t...
The almost exclusively white neighborhoods in the Baldwin Hills slowly began to change in the 1950s, after the Supreme Court struck down the enforcement of racially restrictive covenants in 1948. This enabled prosperous Black families — forced to live in areas primarily surrounding Central Avenue — to move into neighborhoods with amenities and oppo...
In the midst of this transition, tragedy struck. On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 14, 1963, the Baldwin Hills Dam burst, sending a wave of water cascading through the hills. “Terraced lots were swept clean of houses and gardens, swimming pools were wiped away in seconds and a path — perhaps 40 feet across and winding as water gushed forward — was scoure...
Throughout the 1960s, the Baldwin Hills area increasingly became a hub of Black upper-and-middle-class life in Los Angeles. “There were all these accounts of conflict and tension, and backlash among residents in the neighborhood. And eventually white flight, which is usually what follows when one or two white families move out,” Hunt says. “Realtor...
Residents hope the $2.1 billion Crenshaw-LAX Light Rail Project, which will bring high-quality transit to the area, will also bring new amenities and development to South L.A. There are also efforts to preserve the Black history of the Crenshaw District with Destination Crenshaw, projected to be a 1.1-mile outdoor museum running along the new Crens...
Oct 7, 2022 · A block away from Fortson sits the struggling Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. It was sold in 2021 to New York developers after a contentious bidding process and protests from neighborhood...
- rachel.uranga@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Feb 28, 2024 · Hidden behind the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the neighborhood restaurant from John and Roni Cleveland is hardly a secret these days. It’s appeared on restaurant critic Bill Addison’s guide...
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- Assistant Food Editor
Jun 9, 2021 · DCR is a group of longtime South LA residents leading an effort to buy the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza and retain community ownership. Okuk and Goodman both share timeless memories associated with the landmark.
Mar 26, 2022 · Before the Crenshaw and Baldwin Hills neighborhoods of Southwest Los Angeles were developed, it was primarily private ranch land owned by Elias “Lucky” Baldwin, a wealthy landowner in the late 19th and early 20th century who held more than 40,000 acres of land across Los Angeles.
Sep 22, 2021 · For decades the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza mall, south and west of downtown Los Angeles, had been the center of commercial life in one of the nation’s largest Black communities.
