Farmers Field Proposal to Add Exhibit Space at the LA Convention Center | KPCC If plans move forward for the Farmers Field football stadium in downtown Los Angeles, the city’s Convention Center is likely to see its overall space increase by more than 200,000 square feet, a city council committee was told today. Here Comes the Big Money | Downtown News Before the economic downturn hit Downtown in 2008, local developers were rushing to entitle dozens of new projects to get in on the building craze. Most of those plans were shelved when the market tanked. Now, after collecting dust for years, those old proposals are driving the next wave of Downtown development. E3 Commits to LA Through 2015 | LA Times The organizer of the E3 video game convention is expected to announce Monday that it has signed a contract to keep its annual event in Los Angeles through 2015. The deal ends a yearlong standoff that threatened to end the city’s 16-year run as the event’s host. Warner Bros. is a Big Spending in LA County: $4 Billion a Year | LA Times The studio offers a rare glimpse into the business operations of a Hollywood studio, hoping to show the importance of film and TV production to the area’s residents and businesses. Deadlocked Congress Running Out of Time to Take Big Steps | Reuters Campaigning, not legislating, appears to weigh most heavily on the minds of congressional Republicans and Democrats in the run-up to the November 6 elections to pick the next president, 435 members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the 100-member Senate.
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Farmers Field Proposal to Add Exhibit Space at the LA Convention Center | KPCC

If plans move forward for the Farmers Field football stadium in downtown Los Angeles, the city’s Convention Center is likely to see its overall space increase by more than 200,000 square feet, a city council committee was told today.

Here Comes the Big Money | Downtown News

Before the economic downturn hit Downtown in 2008, local developers were rushing to entitle dozens of new projects to get in on the building craze. Most of those plans were shelved when the market tanked. Now, after collecting dust for years, those old proposals are driving the next wave of Downtown development.

E3 Commits to LA Through 2015 | LA Times

The organizer of the E3 video game convention is expected to announce Monday that it has signed a contract to keep its annual event in Los Angeles through 2015. The deal ends a yearlong standoff that threatened to end the city’s 16-year run as the event’s host.

Warner Bros. is a Big Spending in LA County: $4 Billion a Year | LA Times

The studio offers a rare glimpse into the business operations of a Hollywood studio, hoping to show the importance of film and TV production to the area’s residents and businesses.

Deadlocked Congress Running Out of Time to Take Big Steps | Reuters

Campaigning, not legislating, appears to weigh most heavily on the minds of congressional Republicans and Democrats in the run-up to the November 6 elections to pick the next president, 435 members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the 100-member Senate.