Photo of the day: The hole downtown

The site of a proposed federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, and one of the slowest-moving construction projects in the city. Also one of the larger man-made holes you'll see in L.A.

For the better part of a decade, it was the site of a vacant state office building. The federal government began plans for a new courthouse there in 2000, and owns and maintains the site, but has not set a date to begin construction. Gene Gibson, a spokeswoman for U.S.General Services Administration, told L.A. Land the GSA anticipates the project will proceed in fiscal year 2010.

-- Peter Viles
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Photo credit: L.A. Land

Comments

[Mark_Pasadena]

Peter -

Is this the "beautiful" view you have from your office at the LA Times?

[Maribkhan]

Forget the courthouse, let's build a park instead. Downtown L.A. really needs a park.