Westbound lanes of\u00a0Venice\u00a0Boulevard 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 Saturday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Westbound motorists will be detoured north on Figueroa Street, west on Olympic Boulevard and south on Union Avenue before reconnecting with westbound\u00a0Venice\u00a0Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The work is part of the Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion and Modernization Project, which broke ground Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Plans also call for 39,000 square feet of new meeting room space and 98,000 square feet of multipurpose space.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The project is being led by the Bureau of Engineering in partnership with the Los Angeles Tourism Department and other city agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westbound lanes of\u00a0Venice\u00a0Boulevard near the Los Angeles Convention Center will be closed during daytime hours for nine days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7258,1647,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-447641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-downtown-la","tag-downtown-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\/447641","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=447641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}