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Sterling Moves Forward on $50 Million Homeless Center
Clippers Owner Completes Skid Row Land Acquisition; Plans Medical, Legal And Court Facilities
by Kathleen Nye Flynn
(source: LA Downtown News)
Donald T. Sterling, the real estate tycoon and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, last week told the Los Angeles Downtown News that he has completed the purchase of a 65,000-square-foot lot in the heart of Skid Row and plans to build a $50 million homeless center there.
Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling has purchased a 65,000-square-foot lot at Sixth and Wall streets in Skid Row. He hopes to raze the structure shown above and build a homeless services center. Photo by Gary Leonard.
"We have bought the land and we're moving forward," Sterling said in a phone interview. "We are working behind the scenes quietly and professionally."
Sterling, who rarely speaks to the media, said he would like the facility at 600 Wall St., diagonally across from the Los Angeles Police Department Central Division station, to include a medical center, legal center and homeless court. He said he is currently looking for partners to manage the services.
However, Sterling's effort could butt up against some political resistance. His plans for the homeless center come at a time when local officials are working to clean up Skid Row and there are increasing calls to decentralize the area's homeless population and to provide supportive services in other parts of the county.
Sterling said he is moving forward with the plans despite mixed political support.
"The political factions may feel that some of their contributors may not be that supportive of the project since they are developing Downtown and don't want to encourage homeless to come down there," Sterling said. "But our point is that we don't want to encourage new homeless either. We want to help people to get off the streets."
Read the full article ovah here.
Sterling Moves Forward on $50 Million Homeless Center
Clippers Owner Completes Skid Row Land Acquisition; Plans Medical, Legal And Court Facilities
by Kathleen Nye Flynn
(source: LA Downtown News)
Donald T. Sterling, the real estate tycoon and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, last week told the Los Angeles Downtown News that he has completed the purchase of a 65,000-square-foot lot in the heart of Skid Row and plans to build a $50 million homeless center there.
Clippers owner Donald T. Sterling has purchased a 65,000-square-foot lot at Sixth and Wall streets in Skid Row. He hopes to raze the structure shown above and build a homeless services center. Photo by Gary Leonard.
"We have bought the land and we're moving forward," Sterling said in a phone interview. "We are working behind the scenes quietly and professionally."
Sterling, who rarely speaks to the media, said he would like the facility at 600 Wall St., diagonally across from the Los Angeles Police Department Central Division station, to include a medical center, legal center and homeless court. He said he is currently looking for partners to manage the services.
However, Sterling's effort could butt up against some political resistance. His plans for the homeless center come at a time when local officials are working to clean up Skid Row and there are increasing calls to decentralize the area's homeless population and to provide supportive services in other parts of the county.
Sterling said he is moving forward with the plans despite mixed political support.
"The political factions may feel that some of their contributors may not be that supportive of the project since they are developing Downtown and don't want to encourage homeless to come down there," Sterling said. "But our point is that we don't want to encourage new homeless either. We want to help people to get off the streets."
Read the full article ovah here.
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