Straw Poll: What's Opening First?

By Eric Richardson
Published: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, at 01:54PM

Angels Knoll Park Eric Richardson [Flickr]

Lower Angels Knoll park, scheduled to open June 30.

Dry Eric Richardson [Flickr]

Pershing Square fountain, dry all summer.

Glassy Eric Richardson [Flickr]

Construction at L.A. Live, where work continues at full speed.


DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — It's a lazy Tuesday afternoon, and time for all of you to weigh in on the first of an occasional series of blogdowntown straw polls. Today's topic: Which of these projects will be up and running first? Our contestants: Lower Angels Knoll park, the Pershing Square fountain and L.A. Live.

Let's get the backstories:

Lower Angels Knoll Park: First funded in 2001, the reconstruction of Lower Angels Knoll park was slated to be complete on June 30th, but that date's come and gone, with the park still only open for the vast crowd of pigeons that befoul its new concrete.

Pershing Square Fountain: The water feature at the center of Pershing Square was intended to be back up and running before the summer concert series started in early June. Two months later, there are no visible signs on progress on work at the conversation-starting park.

L.A. Live: The $2.5 billion L.A Live is slated to open its restaurants and retail in October and November. The massive project has been moving at full speed, nailing its deadline on the Nokia Theatre and raising its 55-story hotel building at roughly one floor per week.

So what do you think? Who's getting up and running first? No true poll functionality here (maybe next time), so just drop your opinion in the comments.

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1
William writes:

I think that L.A live is going to open up first, I pass there every afternoon and I've seen those workers working at full speed!

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 02:35 PM
2
Chris V. writes:

Hey! First time commenting here at blogdowntown and been reading this great blog site since the beginning of the year. Although I may not be a downtown resident (live in Lincoln Heights and native of the city), I frequent downtown alot and enthusiastic of the rapid change of the area; good to see downtown get back on its feet.

I would have to say L.A. Live as well. I run by there every Sunday morning and impressed how much more detail is added per week.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 04:05 PM
3
Bartleight writes:

LA Live for sure. By far the largest undertaking of the three choices but it has been on a steadily progressing schedule since groundbreaking.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 04:16 PM
4
Norbie 7 writes:

If our city workers would just knock off with all of the doughnut breaks, either of the two smaller projects could be done first. That could give them some extra energy as well, with the weight they'd lose.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 06:36 PM
5
inLAonLA writes:

LA Live will for sure be up and running first.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 07:02 PM
6
Karin Liljegren writes:

LA Live - private developers are pushing it, no city entity.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 07:39 PM
7
Scott Mercer writes:

I'm going to pick a longshot and go off the board for a thousand, Alex.

I'm going to say Angel's Flight.

HA!!!

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 08:51 PM
8
Eric Richardson writes:

Ooh... Nicely played, Scott.

Pedantic note, presented in the hopes that it's educational: There's no apostrophe in Angels Flight. They're pretty insistent about that.

# on Aug.12.2008 AT 09:18 PM
9
nanorich writes:

There you go again, Scott opening those wounds.

Just played with the Google...and see that is time for John H. Welborne to come out his undisclosed location to assure us that Angels Flight will be opening very, very soon.

Jan Perry...what is going to take to force you to get this man to open the books?

# on Aug.13.2008 AT 06:57 AM
10
JM writes:

I'll go with LA Live too. That's the sad reality: construction goes on non-stop at LA Live, but public projects seem to meander for months and years.

I also think Angel's Flight should be included, and I'll keep it singular with the apostrophe until it reopens, as a form of passive protest. In my mind's eye, the other angels got tired of waiting and moved on to greener pastures...

# on Aug.13.2008 AT 11:54 AM
11
Jasmin writes:

I would have to join the majority on LA Live, too -- since somebody is going to be making money off that, it stands to reason there'll be a greater push to get it done.

And oh I do wish this re-opening of Angel's Flight won't take as long as the last time they promised to put it back soon. 30+ years, that time, wasn't it? (I agree w/ JM: most of the Angels will have fled, if they were ever near, so I'll follow his usage of the apostrophe. I promise I'll stop it if/when the Flight reopens at last.)

# on Aug.18.2008 AT 02:50 PM

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