The proprietor of Los Angeles’ legendary Clifton’s has given up on reopening the shuttered venue. It’s just too difficult to do business in downtown’s historic core, he says. Andrew Meieran bought Clifton’s on Broadway in 2010 and poured more than $14 million into repairs, renovations and upgrades, adding additional bar and restaurant spaces in the…
KHARTOUM, Sudan — The diggers were efficient, cramming in so many graves that, from above, the field near the University of Sudan’s medical campus looked like a frieze of an undulating, gravel-brown sea. “There’s another one over there that’s even more crowded than this,” a campus caretaker said, pointing to an adjacent lot a few hundred yards…
As the office market bottoms out after a long fall, renters are swooping in to buy their own buildings. Occupant businesses are seizing the opportunity to become owners, especially in downtown Los Angeles, where glittering high-rises have plummeted in value since occupancy dropped during the pandemic. It has never fully recovered, but investors believe the…
Bryan Marsh was booed by the crowd as he approached the podium in Monterey Park’s City Hall. Things weren’t going as planned. In front of a wall of people holding “No Data Center” placards, he outlined how his company, Australia’s HMC StratCap, invested tens of millions of dollars and became the city’s largest landowner after…
TYRE, Lebanon — Whatever choices Hassan Kareet had left were all bad. Israeli bombardment, not to mention the threat of an invasion, meant Kareet couldn’t stay in the village of Bazourieh, some 11 miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel. But finding a place to stay in a country where an estimated 1.3 million people are already displaced…
WASHINGTON — When President Trump ordered immigration raids in Los Angeles in June, only a handful of those arrested were violent criminals. The sweeps split families, cost businesses millions of dollars and drove many undocumented residents into hiding. Activists protested the Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, prompting the president to deploy thousands of federal troops in what…