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Council approves redevelopment plan for former Sears site; members press developer on living-wage commitments
Summary
The council approved the redevelopment of a large former Sears/catalog warehouse site and asked the developer to maximize living-wage jobs; councilmember Pacheco said staff and the developer were negotiating living-wage thresholds and sought to include CLA-recommended language in the motion.
The City Council approved a redevelopment action for a large former Sears/catalog warehouse site that councilmembers and community advocates said offers an uncommon inner-city redevelopment opportunity with little contamination risk.
Ving Nguyen of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy urged the council to require living-wage jobs for publicly subsidized redevelopment projects and noted precedent in other local…
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