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Grand Central Market
Completion: Ongoing
Los Angeles
81,000 square feet
For generations, the John Parkinson-designed
Grand Central Market has been the focus
of downtown's communal life. Successive
waves of Angelenos of various ethnicities
have mingled in its cavernous space, rubbing
shoulders, buying everyday and exotic foods.
In a sprawling, car-defining metropolis, the
market is one of the few places where this
interaction occurs so vividly. Peeling off layers
of earlier modernizations, Levin & Associates
has updated and enlivened the market's 38
separate stalls. Vintage neon signs marking
each stall have been restored, and new
ones were created. The market's connection
between Broadway and Bunker Hill district
to the west, has been clarified as one of
downtown's most energetic social and physical
linkages and revitalizing and recognizing food
venues
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