Downtown real estate club gripes about police headquarters
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The city’s shiny police administration building got a pie in the face Thursday from the Downtown Breakfast Club, a venerable Los Angeles group that annually recognizes accomplishments –- and dysfunction -– in local real estate.
Police headquarters was handed the ‘lemon’ in the real estate club’s annual Roses & Lemons awards for having an appearance the breakfast bunch found shabby.
The grounds of the $450-million building occupying a block across 1st Street from City Hall have gone from perfect when it opened in 2009 to a trash-strewn eyesore, the club said.
‘The only groundskeepers in evidence are volunteers,” the club said.
The main purpose of the awards, though is to recognize real estate accomplishments with numerous ‘roses.’ Winners included the El Dorado, a 1914 hotel on Spring Street that was restored and converted to condos.
Among others collecting roses were the Urth Caffe in the Arts District, Hygge Danish bakery in South Park and old-fashioned Bolt Barbers in the Historic Core, which serves beer to patrons and has a holster-shining service for police.
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