Maven’s Morning Coffee

Maven's Morning Coffee
January 24, 2012 7:20 am

Good morning, readers. Welcome to the Maven’s Morning Coffee — a listing of the important headlines, news conferences, public meetings and announcements you need to know to fuel up and tackle your day.

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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, and here is what’s happening in Los Angeles:

Headlines

  • The United Artists building on Broadway in downtown will be turned into a boutique hotel, reports the Los Angeles Times.  ”This is really a shot in the arm for the Bringing Back Broadway initiative. We’ve been talking about getting a boutique hotel here and now we have one with a brand name,” Councilman Jose Huizar told the newspaper.
  • A 17-year-contract with Westfield Concession Management means new retail and restaurant options will soon be coming to Terminal 2, the Tom Bradley International Terminal and Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, reports the Daily Breeze. The deal is expected to generate $331.1 million in revenue for the airport.
  • The city of Los Angeles is opening six new business assistance centers, reports the Los Angeles Business Journal. Part of the revamped program is intended to help small businesses obtain city contracts via the local preference ordinance.
  • Writer Bill Boyarsky gives his impressions of mayoral candidate Austin Beutner‘s speech to Town Hall Los Angeles, over at LAObserved.

Pressers

10 a.m. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will take media on a tour of the Tom Bradley International Terminal construction site.

Meetings

8 a.m. Community Redevelopment Agency Board of Commissioners, Garland Center, first floor

  • Approve amendment to the Enforceable Obligation agreement
  • Approve residential project on industrial land in CD9 
9 a.m. Energy and Environment Committee, City Hall, room 1010
  • Recommendation to approve Fred Pickel as executive director of the Office of Public Accountability
9:30 a.m. Board of Police Commissioners, LAPD Headquarters, board room
  • Report on LAPD’s digital in-car camera system
  • Audit on Anti-Terrorist Intelligence 
  • Monthly DNA reports
  • Report on a telecommunications device for the deaf 
10 a.m. Los Angeles City Council, City Hall, Council Chamber
  • Report on implementing reforms within the Department of Building and Safety
  • Recommendation to support SB 659 to extend dissolution of redevelopment agencies
  • Recommendation to support SB 654 to clarify role of successor agency to CRAs
2:30 p.m. Planning and Land Use Management Committee, City Hall, room 350

Announcements

The Los Angeles County Democratic Party will host a State of the Union viewing party tonight at the IATSE Local 80 Sound Stage in Burbank. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Civil rights attorney Connie Rice will be interviewed by Joel Fox on Jan. 31 at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica. RSVP here .

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