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Mayor Bass: Adaptive Reuse Key to Revitalizing Downtown LA

Along with crime and homelessness, the challenge of affordability—both in rents and in development—was a key issue for Los Angeles when Mayor Karen Bass was running for election three-and-a-half ago.

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“Everybody told me when I was running that you can’t get anything built here; people prefer to build in another city,” Bass recalled in a one-on-one interview with CBRE’s Lew Horne at Connect CRE Los Angeles 2026.

Everybody told me when I was running that you can’t get anything built here; people prefer to build in another city,

Along with crime and homelessness, the challenge of affordability—both in rents and in development—was a key issue for Los Angeles when Mayor Karen Bass was running for election three-and-a-half ago. “Everybody told me when I was running that you can’t get anything built here; people prefer to build in another city,” Bass recalled in a one-on-one interview with CBRE’s Lew Horne at Connect CRE Los Angeles 2026. “And so I really... The post Mayor Bass: Adaptive Reuse Key to Revitalizing Down

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