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Plate 9. The worker center serves as a regulated space where workers congregate. |
Plate 10. Mama's Hot Tamales spearheaded efforts to formalize street vendors by providing street vending carts (pictured here out front) and negotiating the city's bureaucracy to provide vending permits. |
Plate 11. Sandi Romero, Director of Mama's Hot Tamales Café, in a CRA/LA public brochure explaining the Westlake Recovery Redevelopment Project. |
Plate 12. One of nine surveillance cameras located in the park. They literally serve as the gaze of the Rampart Division upon the neighborhood. |
Plate 13. La Curacao Business Center, above the La Curacao electronic discount store, houses a plethora of CBOs, the Guatemalan consulate, an El Pollo Campero restaurant, and many immigration law firms. |
Plate 14. The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles provided funds for improving and repairing the commercial storefronts across the street from MacArthur Park. |
Plate 15. MacArthur Park subway station art. |