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City Council opens process to consider Chase Knowles Apartments as historic-cultural monument
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council voted to begin the process to consider designating the Chase Knowles Apartments in Hollywood as a Historic-Cultural Monument, initiating a review that could affect a planned demolition and redevelopment but stopping short of final designation.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to initiate a review to consider designating the Chase Knowles Apartments in Hollywood as a Historic-Cultural Monument, council members said during a packed public hearing and after hearing residents, preservationists and the property owner.
The action opens the city's formal review process for historic-cultural monument status; it does not itself designate the property or prohibit alterations or demolition. Councilman Eric Feuer introduced the motion and the council approved the item on a recorded vote.
Preservation advocates, led by Ken Bernstein of the Los Angeles Conservancy, urged the council to begin the designation process. Bernstein said an independent architectural historian, Teresa Grimes, prepared a detailed nomination and asked council members to…
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