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DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – The centerpiece of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s affordable housing plan has essentially been gutted by a Downtown developer’s lawsuit, according to a report slated to go before city officials next week.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – At 47, Central Division’s new top cop is still relatively young — his favorite hobby is surfing — but his word choice can be decidedly old school.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – There has been a lot of activity at Angels Flight Railway lately.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Behind a locked glass security door, inside a nondescript ground-floor office on the border of Little Tokyo and the Arts District, government workers are gearing up for the big count.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Like many of the old towers in the Historic Core, the 14-story building at 724 S. Spring St. was born as bank offices, but for the past couple decades has housed mostly garment manufacturers. Building co-owner Rafi Shaoulian is now banking on the theory that artists will be better tenants than clothing makers.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Escort Los Angeles police detectives have arrested Marco Julio Gonzales, 41, a registered sex offender, for allegedly soliciting oral sex from a child outside the William Mead Housing Project northeast of Chinatown.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Plans will be changing for at least the short term of the Grand Avenue project.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Developer David Houk is close to securing a new investor for his proposed .3 billion Park Fifth project, he said this week.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – Chinatown stakeholders have another chance to voice their desires for a proposed pocket park.

DOWNTOWN Escort Los Angeles – A daylong Civic Center Haiti Relief Fund Drive to raise money for victims of the earthquake that leveled Port-au-Prince will take place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, on Main Street between First and Temple.