{"id":446919,"date":"2026-08-29T05:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:28:08","slug":"work-on-destination-crenshaw-project-restarts-after-yearslong-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446919\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on Destination Crenshaw project restarts after yearslong delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/crenshaw-residents-air-frustrations-surrounding-delayed-construction-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">complaints from residents<\/a>, work on the Destination Crenshaw construction project has restarted after a yearslong delay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to get it done as fast as we possibly can,&#8221; Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harris-Dawson helped spearhead the now $150 million project, which was the target of residents&#8217; frustration during a town hall last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community is coming together to say enough is enough. When is this project going to be finished?&#8221; KBLA talk host Tavis Smiley said last month. &#8220;Why has it been delayed? What happened to the already $100 million already geared towards this project? So many questions, not enough answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for allowing the above-ground line, Metro and the City of Los Angeles promised tens of millions for Crenshaw to build new sidewalks, trees, parks and storefront makeovers. Harris-Dawson said the city hoped to finish the project in 2019, but Metro couldn&#8217;t finish its part of the work until 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we groundbreak in 2020, literally a week and a half later, we have a COVID shutdown,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown stopped the work and the following supply chain problems, inflation and tariffs drove up costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now, five years later, Harris-Dawson said the project is moving full steam ahead. Crews are working on the flagship 49,000-square-foot Sankofa part before moving on to other projects. Much of the artwork planned for businesses and schools has already been finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harris-Dawson said Mayor Karen Bass helped clear the city approvals needed to get K-rails and fencing out of the way. While delays are still possible, the councilman hopes they&#8217;ll finish the project by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following complaints from residents, work on the Destination Crenshaw construction project has restarted after a yearslong delay.\u00a0 &#8220;We&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-446919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446919","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=446919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}