Early Takeaways from the Da Vinci Com...
One thing sticks out about the apartment building fire that engulfed the construction site of controversial developer Geoff Palmer’s 1.3 million-square-foot wooden Da Vinci complex early yesterday morning: the immediate announcement of the possibility of arson. It is extremely unusual for Los Ang...
Geoff Palmer’s Faux-Italian Renaissan...
The downtown construction site of developer Geoff Palmer’s Da Vinci apartment complex—and two nearby buildings—caught on fire early Monday morning. Much of the Da Vinci structure on Fremont Avenue was destroyed, according to an early report, and arson investigators were called to the scene, altho...
What the Da Vinci Complex Loss Means ...
There are still unanswered questions in the December 8 fire that devastated a large part of developer Geoff Palmer’s half-built downtown Da Vinci apartment complex, but some new information is trickling in. Federal and local officials declared the fire was an act of arson on Dec. 18, but it’s ...
Marcie Edwards Leads the DWP in a Fut...
I began working in the public affairs division of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 1987, writing press releases and answering media questions. Then as now, much of the public outright disliked the nation’s largest municipal utility. Even if its power was the cheapest in California...