The Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual Spring Breakfast Meeting this past Friday, April 4, at Dulan’s on Crenshaw. A packed room of business owners, developers, nonprofit leaders, and civic stakeholders came together for a morning of strategic collaboration. Leaders used the forum to chart Crenshaw’s course for 2025
On Saturday, April 5, Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson joined hundreds of community members, families, and athletes for the inaugural Crenshaw Mile, a one-mile run and wellness event along a historic stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard.
Crenshaw Boulevard – a stretch of road in South Los Angeles famous for many things. And the ‘Shaw is becoming known for one more thing: running. The Crenshaw Mile is a one-mile run/walk event that will take over the thoroughfare Saturday, April 5.
Los Angeles has been a quiet hub for Black art since the 1960s. With artists like Betye Saar, Melvin Edwards, and Noah Purifoy, creating community and exhibitions, Black art has become a staple in West Coast culture. Dr. Virginia Joy Simmons has diligently contributed to this movement and keeps Black stories alive through art collection and philanthropy.
The Leimert Park Jazz Festival transformed the upper parking deck of the Baldwin Hills – Crenshaw Plaza into an incredible community experience for more than 3,000 people attending the event on Aug. 31.
On June 12, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Los Angeles (LISC LA) hosted “The Art of Resilience,” an exclusive power lunch and networking event at Hotel Indigo in downtown Los Angeles.
Destination Crenshaw is shaping up to be the nation’s largest outdoor art and cultural celebration of Black contributions The highly anticipated reparative development project continues to collaborate with local leaders and talented professionals to ensure input from the community is valued and embraced from ideation to completion.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrates the fifth largest banking institution’s investment in the revitalization of the Crenshaw District.
The Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission approved plans on September 13, for the legendary RTN Crew, creators of the iconic 787-foot-long mural on South LA’s Crenshaw Wall, to replace their decades-old painting with a new artistic panorama, The Struggle Continues, under the auspices of the not-for-profit organization Destination Crenshaw.
Drake Dillard, AIA, NOMAC, LEED, a senior project manager of Perkins&Will, Los Angeles, announced that he is retiring from the firm following a long and illustrious career of working on noted projects like Destination Crenshaw and overseeing a wide range of commissions throughout the world, including education, civic, mixed-use, healthcare, and culture.
Marvella Steel Placers is a black and female owned family-oriented business that provides high-quality rebar and concrete installation for customers across California. Marvella Steel Placers was founded by Jacqueline Pruitt in 2016 and ever since, her business has successfully worked on numerous projects including Destination Crenshaw, Purple Line 3, and Sign Fountain – just to name a few.
Destination Crenshaw President and COO Jason W. Foster recently announced that Sankofa Park, the first major component of this $100 million public-private initiative, will open with a public celebration in early fall 2023.
South L.A.’s premiere outdoor event returns – live and in-person -with the 17th Annual Taste of Soul Family Festival on Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., along Crenshaw Blvd., from Obama Blvd. to Stocker Ave.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg paid a visit to South Los Angeles on July 8, visiting ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the city of Compton. He also participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly opened “K” line, the new Crenshaw-to-LAX metro line.
Destination Crenshaw was originally conceived as a way to respond to the devastating impacts of the Metro LAX line construction project along Crenshaw and gentrification concerns around transit development.