Our Work & Impact
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LANI formed as a non-profit in 1994 to advance inclusive, equitable, neighborhood-driven community development.
Since our founding, LANI has raised and leveraged over $230 million to provide improvements and amenities in 55 historically under-invested neighborhoods across the Los Angeles region. LANI partners with community members to conceive, fund, design, and build public spaces that meet local needs and reflect communities’ unique pride and character, including parks and open spaces, pedestrian plazas, business corridors, transit hubs, and safe, vibrant sidewalk environments.
Authentic Engagement
Beyond building places, LANI meaningfully engages the people who drive and steward neighborhood change – residents, business owners and local organizations – through consensus building and substantive community decision-making.
Increasing Prosperity
LANI projects create walkable neighborhoods with improved access to healthy lifestyles, transit, and economic opportunity. LANI neighborhoods have attracted new businesses, jobs, and customers, along with $49 million in new investment.
Thoughtful Project Partner
LANI’s turn-key project-delivery is unique in the field, as is our industry-leading community engagement practice. We have earned a national reputation as a skilled, reliable project manager of publicly funded improvements, playing a critical role in the revitalization of Southern California communities.