Downtown Crenshaw

• Brookings – The emerging solidarity economy: A primer on community ownership of real estate (2021-07)

From the project

• https://www.downtowncrenshaw.com/
• The Plan
• Downtown Crenshaw – The Battle for the Crenshaw Mall Continues (2021-08)

Media

• Moguldom – Black Community Group Puts Up Highest Bid To Purchase LA Mall But Is Rejected (2021-08)
• Brookings – The emerging solidarity economy: A primer on community ownership of real estate (2021-07)
• Eater LA – South LA Community Group Loses Bid to Acquire Crenshaw Mall Despite Offering the Most Money (2021-07)
• USFWC – The USFWC Supports Downtown Crenshaw Rising in its bid to purchase the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza Mall (2021-07)
• Spectrum News – Community seeks ownership of Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza fearing gentrification (2021-06)
• Fast Company – This L.A. mall could be reinvented as housing and worker-owned co-ops (2021-04)
• Next City – LA Mall Purchase Would Be the Biggest Victory Yet for Community-Driven Development (2021-04)
• NCBA CLUSA – Niki Okuk and Damien Goodmon, Members of Downtown Crenshaw Rising, Discuss Plans to Reinvent Crenshaw Mall as an Urban Village on Everything Co-op (2021-02)
• Los Angeles Wave – Mall battle is about more than it appears (2020-12)
• WSJ – A Los Angeles Mall Gets Snarled in Charged Debate Over Local Ownership (2020-11)
• NY Times – Black Empowerment Outside the Headlines (2020-11)
• Everything Co-op Niki Okuk and Damien Goodmon

Also

• Davis – The Role of Technical Colleges in the Future of Cooperative Enterprise (2021)