The City Council voted to advance a plan to expand the Convention Center. The city can pull the plug if engineers find the project can't be done before the 2028 Olympics.
For decades, Los Angeles city leaders tried and failed to come up with a plan to expand the downtown Convention Center, a hulking green edifice adjacent to two freeways that dates to the 1970s. On Tuesday, the City Council took a big step toward that overhaul, voting 13 to 1 to spend $54.4 million on pre-design work as part of a plan to expand the center before 2028, when Southern California hosts the Olympic Games.
have a world-class Convention Center that we can be proud of just in time for the world stage, but also it's going to bring together thousands of jobs,' Price said. Some council members at Tuesday's meeting expressed concern about spending money at a time when the city is slashing vacant positions to balance the budget. Others worried about the timeline for completing the project.
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