Its design has been scorned, but L.A. Live has been crucial to downtown’s resurgence
LA TimesL.A. Live, above, and Staples Center together have served as a catalyst for billions of dollars’ worth of development in the South Park area of downtown L.A. It’s a running joke in the basketball league, Commissioner Adam Silver said, that if team owners can’t have the annual showcase in their own cities, they want to have it at Staples Center and the adjacent L.A. Live complex in downtown L.A. “The team owners love it,” Silver said, citing the $3-billion complex of hotels, restaurants, meeting rooms and other facilities. “What Staples and L.A. Live have done for downtown Los Angeles is epic,” said Steve Soboroff, who had a hand in their birth and is now president of the city Police Commission. L.A. Live was “a major catalytic development for downtown Los Angeles,” said Thomas Feng, chief executive of Oceanwide’s American subsidiary.
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