Westbound lanes of Venice Boulevard near the Los Angeles Convention Center will be closed during daytime hours for nine days beginning Monday as part of the convention center’s $2.6 billion expansion and modernization project, city officials announced Friday.
The westbound lanes will be closed between the Harbor (110) Freeway/Convention Center Drive and Figueroa Street from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and again Tuesday, Sept. 8, through Friday, Sept. 11, according to the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering.
One eastbound lane will remain open during the work.
The closure is necessary for crews to install underground duct banks for a power circuit serving a new network station at the convention center. The station will manage electrical power distribution throughout the facility, officials said.
Westbound motorists will be detoured north on Figueroa Street, west on Olympic Boulevard and south on Union Avenue before reconnecting with westbound Venice Boulevard.
The work is part of the Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion and Modernization Project, which broke ground Oct. 1, 2025.
The project will connect the existing South and West Exhibit Halls over Pico Boulevard and add 190,000 square feet of exhibit space, creating a contiguous exhibit hall of more than 750,000 square feet.
Plans also call for 39,000 square feet of new meeting room space and 98,000 square feet of multipurpose space.
City officials said the project is expected to create more than 15,000 jobs and generate $652 million in General Fund tax revenue over 30 years and more than $150 million in additional visitor spending annually.
The project is being led by the Bureau of Engineering in partnership with the Los Angeles Tourism Department and other city agencies.