A developer's plan has set off a debate over whether L.A. should try to protect the building that has long been home to Taix, a popular Echo Park restaurant.
But don’t cry into your French onion soup: The country French eatery vows to stay open as part of the new complex.
The “New Taix” would retain its beloved feel by installing patinaed mirrors and a faux-tin ceiling and reusing its cherrywood bar and existing “Cocktails” sign, he wrote. He argued that the city should designate the “site” — not the building — as historically significant. “Nobody wants another multistory box that looks like it belongs in Irvine,” said Christine Kantner of the Silver Lake Heritage Trust. “If the building was preserved and something was built around it, that would be the draw.”as a monument, but not the building itself. In his modified version of the proposal, O’Farrell specified three features that should be preserved: its cherrywood bar top, a red-and-white “Taix” sign and another advertising “Cocktails.
Adrian Scott Fine, senior director of advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, said it would pare back historic protection to “mere building fragments” and set a dangerous precedent.Fine argued that such a “neutered” form of historic protection could allow developers to try to sidestep the higher degree of environmental review required when demolishing a historic monument, by “calling something a historic cultural monument when it really is only two signs and a bar top.
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