while we're on the subject of downtown...

i just saw this in L.A. Downtown News

Grand Avenue Designs Approved.

this means:

Plans for phase one of the $3 billion, Frank Gehry-designed project, dubbed The Grand, call for a 48-story Mandarin Oriental Hotel & Residences with 295 rooms and 266 condominiums, a 19-story residential tower with 126 market-rate apartments and 98 affordable units, 250,000 square feet of retail, an Equinox health club, a nightclub and a 16-acre civic park. Completion is expected in 2011.

SEXY! i love it.

This is all happening (it's all happening! -Penny Lane Almost Famous ) right across from Disney Concert Hall.

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