Los Angeles' garment industry is about 40,000 workers strong and accounts for about 83% of the nation's cut-and-sew manufacturing, according to a city staff report. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

Los Angeles garment workers and local apparel manufacturing businesses put down their picket signs for the last time following the final vote on the Downtown L.A. 2040 Community Plan, otherwise known ...

The Downtown LA 2040 proposal could force garment factories to close and replace affordable housing with luxury developments. Storefronts on E. Pico Boulevard in the Garment District of Los ...

Call it a tug-of-war for Downtown Los Angeles real estate between the city’s garment workers and local business leaders. The City Council will vote Wednesday on a 20-year road map for growth that ...

New York City has a critical housing shortage. It also has hundreds of obsolete, largely empty, century-old office and manufacturing buildings that have almost no chance of being filled again in the ...

For the past decade, city planners and stakeholders in downtown Los Angeles have been crafting a plan that would set the area’s development priorities for the area for the next 20 years. But for most ...