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Jefferson Corridor, in South Los Angeles near West Adams, became a LANI neighborhood in 1994. Many vibrant sites dot the corridor, such as the famous Harold & Bell's Creole restaurant, Leslie Shaw Park, Vassie D. Wright Library, and churches and schools.

Jefferson Corridor
Jefferson Corridor
 

Project Elements

  • Comprehensive Community Work Plan
  • Decorative pedestrian lights
  • Bus shelters with matching benches and information kiosks
  • Community Entry Monument at Crenshaw
  • Trees
  • Sidewalk cleaning
  • Banners
  • Bus stop security lights
  • Community Vision Plan (conceptual design for future improvements)
  • Custom benches in Leslie Shaw Park
  • Transit Information Kiosk
  • Decorative crosswalks
  • Community entry monument at Western
  • Decorative tree grates
  • Illuminated bus shelters with matching benches and trash receptacles

Additional Benefits

  • $60,000 in private funds towards park improvements
  • $500,000 in improvements to properties abutting the Art Park

LANI's emphasis on public/private partnerships led to the approval and installation of pedestrian light fixtures attached to existing poles - the first in Los Angeles!

A Business Improvement District (BID) was established in 1999.

 
Contacts

Councilmember Bernard C. Parks
(213) 473-7003

LANI:
Rebecca Draper
(213) 627-1822 Ext. 16
rebecca@lani.org

 
Updated Winter 2010