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Old Posted Mar 16, 2016, 3:10 AM
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Chinese hotel firm buys Yamashiro property in Hollywood Hills
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...315-story.html
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A parallel Chinese-language Internet helps immigrants navigate life in America

When Grace Hui moved to Los Angeles from China in 2014 and Googled the Chinese characters for "Los Angeles immigrant," the first result was Chineseinla.com.

The Chino Hills-based website, a disorganized Yelp-meets-Craigslist hybrid, was a throwback, and Hui, 29, thought some of the posts were phishing scams.

But with more than 680,000 listings, more than 350,000 registered users, 2 million monthly visits and sister sites in 15 cities, Chineseinla.com has become a teeming virtual portal to Chinese life in America. It's one of the only ways that Hui could connect to a country she couldn't understand.
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Australians setting up shop and home in Los Angeles

Nicknamed the ‘City of Angels’, Los Angeles is America at its glittering, show-stopping best whose bright lights, Hollywood glamour and revamped neighbourhoods are attracting more and more Australians to its shores.

The Australian Consulate-General in LA estimates there are about 60,000 Australians in California, with about 44,000 of them in the greater Los Angeles area. The E3 visa, a two year renewable visa only for Australians, has made it easier than ever for Australians to work in the US without sponsorship. And direct flights from Australia’s east coast makes it an accessible and familiar move.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/w...81173a7d227e71
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Monterey Park has become a hub for Chinese tourists, and with it hotel development

“Chinese immigrants continue to come in. The city has become very well known in China,” said Michael Huntley, the director of community and economic development in Monterey Park. “Visitors know that they will be able to find the traditional restaurants they like.”

Every year Chinese travelers spend on average $3,000 on trips to California, more than any other country’s visitors, according to the U.S. Office of Travel and Tourism Industries.

Well aware of the flow of tourism, Chinese investors are bringing in brand-name hotels like Courtyard by Marriott and DoubleTree by Hilton to Monterey Park.

Set to open next year, the six-story Courtyard by Marriott is on Atlantic Boulevard and Hellman Avenue. The six-story DoubleTree has been granted land use approvals, but developers have yet to submit construction drawings for the city to review. If built, the 180-room hotel will be located at 220 N. Atlantic Blvd. The project will include spaces for restaurants and retail stores, meeting rooms, fitness center and business center.

Aside from the two hotels, Chinese investors are pouring money into the city’s Town Centre development, a mixed-use project building 109 condominiums above spaces for stores.
http://www.sgvtribune.com/business/2...el-development
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Koreatown is a bustling city within a city

Dense, diverse and undeniably L.A., Koreatown today is a dizzying hub of all-you-can-eat barbecue spots, karaoke bars, high-rise condos and 24-hour spas.

In the 1920s and 1930s, though, the neighborhood was the stomping grounds of cravat-sporting men and of women who wore their diamond rings over the fingers of their elbow-length satin gloves. These high-society folks would guzzle Champagne by the magnum and while away their days darting around town in their massive chauffeur-driven Duesenbergs.

But the area has evolved beyond its days as a simulacrum of the Upper East Side into a vibrant, polyglot neighborhood that could exist only in L.A.
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76 Years Celebrating Nisei Week

Since the 1880s, Little Tokyo has been a cultural and civic center for Japanese Americans in Southern California. It’s a community anchored by multi-generational family businesses, churches, and temples. One of the neighborhood’s oldest traditions is the annual Nisei Week festival, first celebrated in 1934.
http://urbanize.la/post/76-years-celebrating-nisei-week

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626 Night Market - The original and largest Asian-themed night market in the United States
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Chinatown's Blossom Plaza Crosses the Finish Line

Architecture firm Johnson Fain has announced the opening of Blossom Plaza, a mixed-use development adjacent to the Metro Gold Line's Chinatown Station.

Located at 900 N. Broadway, the project consists of two five-story structures featuring 237 apartments, of which 20% are reserved as affordable housing. A paseo lined by approximately 20,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space cuts between the buildings, connecting to a large plaza adjacent to the elevated light rail station. Parking for residents, retail customers and Metro passengers is situated in a garage beneath the development.

The design of Blossom Plaza draws on traditional Chinese architecture, while also incorporating contemporary shapes and colors.
http://urbanize.la/post/chinatowns-b...es-finish-line
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