CRA/LA GETS A 2.25 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT TO “SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE” THEIR REDEVELOPMENT AND EMINENT DOMAIN ABILITIES FOR PROPOSED NELA REDEVELOPMENT AREA.

The Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles (CRA/LA) has won a 2.25 million dollars Housing & Urban Development (HUD) grant. According to the grant application the 2.25 million dollars will help fund CRA/LA effort, together with the Departments of Planning and Transportation, to modify the NELA Community Plan. The ensuing Community Plan change is expected to “significantly enhance” CRA/LA’s redevelopment and eminent domain abilities once the proposed NELA River Redevelopment Project Area is adopted.

CRA/LA is already using 1 million dollars Tax Increment funds from the East Hollywood / Beverly – Normandie (EHBN) area to subsidize their efforts to declare sections of Atwater Village and Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) “blighted”.

Click here for NELA HUD grant application (pdf file)

For more information about the proposed NELA River Redevelopment Project area visit CRA/LA website at: www.crala.org/nela or the LA City Clerks website at:

http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=08-3459

or contact:

Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles
Alison Becker, AICP - Associate Planner
6255 Sunset Blvd., Suite 2206
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323.960.2660
abecker@cra.lacity.org
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