Historic Ambassador Hotel to become a school (site of RFK Assassination)

[CO Liberal]

Historic Ambassador Hotel to become a school

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Los Angeles school officials intend to demolish most of the Ambassador Hotel, site of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, to build a school serving mostly low-income students in crowded downtown neighborhoods.

The $318 million plan, which was unveiled Tuesday and must be approved in the coming months by the Los Angeles Unified School District, caps more than a decade of debate over the shuttered landmark.

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Under the proposal most of the hotel, which was built in 1919 and closed in 1989, will be torn down to make way for a school serving students from kindergarten through high school.

Officials say they will preserve the look of the Ambassador by rebuilding its front wall. The Cocoanut Grove nightclub, a former home of the Academy Awards, would be kept as a performance hall. The ballroom where Kennedy spoke before his assassination in June of 1968 would be turned into a library.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/09/15/ambassador.hotel.reut/index.html

[SoCalDem]

1. I once stayed in the Cary Grant suite..

It was a very cool place in its day ...I was hoping that someone would renovate it and re-open it as a hotel..

In the 60's the SouthBeach area of Miami was boarded up, and falling apart, but some pretty smart cookies saw the worth of all those cool old buildiings.. Sadly, here in CA, the motto is .."If it's not adobe, it's too new to save "..:(

[cureautismnow]

2. That Damn Pantry Needs to Be Preserved...

... as a National Historic Site and opened up to the public.

Dallas, Memphis, & L.A. extinguished far too many American hopes and dreams.

[Carla in Ca]

3. Finally! That site has been so controversial for so long

and I'm glad the problem has been resolved. Trump once tried to get his hands on it but we scared him off.
This is a remedy we all can live with...preserve some of its wonderful (Coconut Grove) and tragic (Bobby) past and a school for the future...perfect.