Hollywood: Mixed Reviews For A 'Dream Suburb'

Joel Kotkin reports on the myth of the dream suburb -- Hollywood, California.

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April 11, 2002, 8:00 AM PDT

The return of the Oscars this year to Hollywood has turned the spotlight on a long-declining section of Los Angeles. With the addition of the new Kodak Theater that hosted the awards show, a major new shopping mall, and scores of other major projects, Hollywood appears as arguably the greatest "in- fill" opportunity for investors and developers in Southern California... Yet, as usual, all is not well in tinsel town...

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Thursday, April 11, 2002 in REIS

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