Designation Crenshaw<\/a> found that many families weren\u2019t connected to the internet.<\/p>\n\u201cThe overall sentiment was that it was too expensive,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cDestination Crenshaw came to us and was like, ‘How do we figure this out? How do we build a network that is sustainable, affordable and reliable, most importantly?’\u201d<\/p>\n
Foster said some parts of the Crenshaw corridor have never been connected to any form of broadband \u2014 a familiar issue for other L.A. neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don’t want Crenshaw to be the last. We want to absolutely be the first and to represent an opportunity for Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Olvera Street, historic Filipinotown and all the other ethnic enclaves that are in our city that need this type of solution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
More about the project<\/p>\n
The Wi-Fi project was a partnership among the city of L.A., Cisco and a coalition of community organizations, including Destination Crenshaw and Digital Equity LA.<\/p>\n
The L.A. Bureau of Street Lighting installed fiber optics cable underground, stretching from Leimert Park Plaza to the Hyde Park Metro Station.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did our investigation around their existing infrastructure and found out that the strip of Crenshaw is actually not connected to any broadband,\u201d Jason Foster, president and CEO of Destination Crenshaw, told LAist. \u201cIn this kind of core area, where we have the highest concentration of Black ownership of resident and commercial spaces, we were not connected.\u201d<\/p>\n
How is this connected to the Olympics?<\/p>\n
L.A. is preparing to host several world events such as the FIFA World Cup, Super Bowl 61 and the LA28 Olympics.<\/p>\n
As the city prepares to see more visitors, public Wi-Fi could help keep more residents and tourists stay connected and explore what the neighborhoods have to offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cFolks are going to be taking the train from LAX, and they’re going to take the K Line and connect to Expo,\u201d Foster said. \u201cHopefully, we want them to get off and we want them to kind of shop and, you know, do business in the Crenshaw district, and Wi-Fi connectivity is a big part of making that transaction as seamless as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crenshaw Wi-Fi<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in the Crenshaw Corridor, look for \u201cDestinationCrenshaw-Wifi\u201d on your mobile device. There is no password to join.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep up with LAist. If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18030,16377,16382,18032,48,52,51,47,50,49,16380,18031],"class_list":{"0":"post-22876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-crenshaw-community-connectivity-pilot","9":"tag-crenshaw-corridor","10":"tag-digital-divide","11":"tag-digital-equity-la","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-south-la","19":"tag-wi-fi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}