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Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Plug and Play, the world's largest global innovation platform, announced today its newest strategic partnership with the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce, Alliance for SoCal Innovation, and Downtown Center to transform Downtown LA into the next urban innovation hub. This collaboration looks to catalyze an environment of 'Live. Work. Play' in the Downtown LA area by establishing it as a formal innovation hub and uniting its local startup and corporate community. "We want to play a part in creating a new generation o...

How Downtown L.A.’s Cecil Hotel Went From Lively Destination To“Hell On Earth” Emma Dibdin To walk around downtown Los Angeles is to see ghosts. Even on a crisp, bright Sunday morning, they’re impossible to miss. The ghost of a thriving financial district, once dubbed "the Wall Street of the West," now abandoned. The ghost of a beloved streetcar system that was ripped out in the 1960s, leaving L.A. dependent on congested freeways. And if you believe in this sort of thing, there are also the ghosts of all those who’ve suffered and died at the Hotel Cecil, whose check...

ROBYN BECKGetty Images To walk around downtown Los Angeles is to see ghosts. Even on a crisp, bright Sunday morning, they’re impossible to miss. The ghost of a thriving financial district, once dubbed "the Wall Street of the West," now abandoned. The ghost of a beloved streetcar system that was ripped out in the 1960s, leaving L.A. dependent on congested freeways. And if you believe in this sort of thing, there are also the ghosts of all those who’ve suffered and died at the Hotel Cecil, whose checkered history is the subject of the new Netflix documentary