Join us this week as we talk with architect Wade Killefer, partner at Killifer Flammang, about the firm’s recent renovation of the 19th century Pershing Hotel at the corner of 5th and Main. We’ll also visit with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Policy and Operations for the CRA/Los Angeles, about working with Wade to preserve and maintain the affordable housing stock of Skid Row. audiofile YCES-101.mp3 relevantHyperLinks Broadway's historic Bumiller Building becomes residential. Preservation concerns about Tom Gilmore's proposed Old Bank District museum, to wrap around two historic landmarks. Related splits with Nazarian on Grand Avenue Project. Positive movement on the #SaveTacoBell campaign. Frank Gehry tapped to design project at mouth of the Sunset Strip. Killefer Flammang Architects website. Charnock Block (Pershing Hotel) then/now photos. Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon March 2015 Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon April 2015 LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Serial Killer Summer Session: The Night Stalker & The 60 Freeway Slayer Upcoming Bus Tours Pasadena Confidential Hollywood! Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice The Real Black Dahlia Echo Park Book of the Dead Haunts of A Dirty Old Man: Charles Bukowski's Los Angeles Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles Tom Waits' Los Angeles Eastside Babylon