Black Lives Matter brings new vitality to Leimert Park. Owners are hoping it will last
4 years, 3 months ago

Black Lives Matter brings new vitality to Leimert Park. Owners are hoping it will last

LA Times  

From the porch of his namesake shop in Leimert Park Village, Sika Dwimfo, 79, has watched the community absorb the tides of history. “I think it’s important that we bring the revenue back into our community,” she said about Leimert Park. “The Black Lives Matter movement gave a temporary spurt to and interest in Black businesses in Leimert Park,” Hutchinson said. “We’ve built Black wall streets before in other cities, so there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to do it again,” says Adé Neff, 55, who owns a bike shop in Leimert Park. “We’re all being blessed,” Sinclair-Beckford said about business owners in Leimert Park.

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Letters to the Editor: Stop treating new residents of Leimert Park as gentrification pariahs
11 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Stop treating new residents of Leimert Park as gentrification pariahs

LA Times  

Tidy homes with manicured yards make up much of the historically Black Leimert Park area of Los Angeles. To the editor: Neighborhood appreciation and integration are not exclusively bad, yet no one would know this reading The Times’ coverage of gentrification in Leimert Park. People will continue moving to Leimert Park or anywhere else they can because there is simply …

How to win the fight against gentrification in Leimert Park
1 year, 6 months ago

How to win the fight against gentrification in Leimert Park

LA Times  

Tony Jolly sounded tired. “The goal is really to take what we’ve done and be able to provide affordable retail space that is kept in the interest of and the spirit of what we’re doing in the community,” said Robbie Lee, interim chief executive of the land trust, affectionately dubbed “Boo C.L.T.” That means ensuring business owners don’t get priced …

Column: They wanted to save Leimert Park from gentrification. Here’s how they got one block
2 years, 5 months ago

Column: They wanted to save Leimert Park from gentrification. Here’s how they got one block

LA Times  

Akil West, right, owner of Sole Folks, and Prophet Walker, a developer and co-founder of Treehouse, sit on a bench outside a building they hope to purchase on Degnan Boulevard in Leimert Park. For about a year, I’ve been following the travails of Akil West, a Black business owner with dreams of purchasing, co-op-style, a small commercial building on Degnan …

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