The Grand Avenue Project is a project currently under development designed to revive Downtown Los Angeles, similar to the L.A. Live project, around Grand Avenue and the Civic Center. The project would serve about 5.8 million people living around the project site. On February 14, 2007 both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project, and officials originally hoped to break ground in December 2007. On July 26, 2012, the Grand Park opened to the public as part of an initial phase of the project.
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