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Council approves redevelopment plan for former Sears site; living-wage target remains unresolved
Summary
The council approved a redevelopment plan for the former Sears/catalog warehouse site and directed staff to include CLA summary language in the file; labor and community advocates urged the council to require living-wage jobs but negotiators did not reach a threshold before the vote.
The Los Angeles City Council approved redevelopment actions for the former Sears/catalog warehouse site, with members and advocates urging strong living-wage conditions even though staff and the developer had not settled on a specific wage threshold.
Vi Nguyen, representing the LA Alliance for a New Economy and Economic Justice, urged the council to use scarce public dollars to create “good…
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