The Grand scheme
This is the downtown that Frank Gehry wanted. When will LA's leaders give it to us?
"If you think that somehow a bigger convention center is key to downtown revitalization, or is going to do wonders for local job creation, or economic development? The answer is, you've got to be kidding"
Katy Yaroslavsky's words are about the city's convention center — but they are really about the city
LA28's chief athlete officer Janet Evans was deployed to assure everyone that the city of LA "will host more Olympic sports than anywhere else" which is repeated several times in Friday's venue announcement
"This was originally supposed to be a 'no-build' Olympics, and that's what the commitment was to the public"