Last week the team met to start laying out the framework for a very complicated project that will use multiple contributors and multiple editors to tell multiple stories that span 60 years.
Marlton Square's nearly 300 boarded up storefronts didn't happen overnight. The 20-acre parcel is next to the vibrant Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza. What happened? What actions were taken to stop the slide? What decisions were made?
The paper trail is the stone foundation of any good investigative story. So that's where we start.
The city and the county are helping as they have so far adopted an open door policy by putting on their websites searchable databasese for city council agendas, PDFs, agreements and parcell assement and ownership.
It's a good first step. Feel free to click, search and report what you find.
Searchable agenda - http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/
Searchable assessor's map - http://assessormap.co.la.ca.us/mapping/viewer.asp
http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=96-1463
http://www.crala.org/internet-site/Projects/Crenshaw/about.cfm
http://www.crala.org/internet-site/Projects/Crenshaw/crenshaw_map.cfm
http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=01-2069-S1
Buckingham Senior Center - http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=01-2069-S2
Marlton Square contact - http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=01-2069
Marlton Square file history - http://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect/index.cfm?fa=ccfi.viewrecord&cfnumber=01-2069-S1
