Nisei Week Festival/Little Tokyo/Related

bmwracer wrote:^ Boo.

Too early in the day to be posting stuff like that. :drooling:

Agreed. :bonk:

Tu_triky wrote:Agreed. :bonk:

Now you've de-appetized my lunch. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Now you've de-appetized my lunch. :beaten:

I'll have to remember that word. :hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:I'll have to remember that word. :hehe:

I couldn't think of the appropriate word, so I had to improvise. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
I couldn't think of the appropriate word, so I had to improvise. :mrgreen:

I like that. :applaud:

Tu_triky wrote:I like that. :applaud:

Maybe it'll make the next Oxford Dictionary release. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Maybe it'll make the next Oxford Dictionary release. :mrgreen:

Start a petition!

Did I miss something? My round eyes just see a plate of negitoro-don? Nothing de-appetizing about that. :crazy:

Itazura ichiban wrote:Did I miss something?

You did.

Kyoto Grand Could Become a Doubletree

By Eric Richardson
November 09, 2010,


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Little Tokyo's Kyoto Grand could be reflagged as a Doubletree under a reorganization plan filed Friday.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES \ Little Tokyo's Kyoto Grand could soon be given its first American hotel flag as part of a plan to bring the structure and the adjacent Weller Court shopping center out of bankruptcy.

The structure, which opened in 1977 as the New Otani, would become a Doubletree hotel under the terms of a new reorganization plan filed on Friday.

The document says that the increased revenue and profitability from the Doubletree brand will be a part of allowing the company that controls the structures to repay all its creditors the full amounts they are owed.

That's an important consideration, because it allows the firm to ask that the bankruptcy court approve its plans without requiring a vote of creditors. Lender Citizens-First Bank & Trust has separately negotiated a sale of the properties to the investment arm of a Torrance furniture company, but approval of the reorganization plan would keep the court from considering that purchase.

Beverly Hills-based 3D Investments purchased the hotel and shopping center in 2007 for $54 million. It placed the structures into Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in July.

As part of the newly filed reorganization plan, $8 million in new capital would be put into the structures to complete needed repairs, settle a lawsuit over ADA access and implement an improvement plan negotiated with the Hilton-owned Doubletree.

It remains to be seen how the Little Tokyo community would respond to the reflagging. The neighborhood has seen several key properties purchased by non-Japanese interests in recent years, a trend that has raised concerns over the preservation of the neighborhood's identity.

A hearing date for the amended reorganization plan has not yet been set.

http://blogdowntown.com/2010/11/5847-kyoto-grand-could-become-a-doubletree

^ Not surprised, seeing that no Japanese company was willing to step up.

bmwracer wrote:^ Not surprised, seeing that no Japanese company was willing to step up.

They ain't no money. Pocket lint is not a good substitute for dollars.

Tu_triky wrote:They ain't no money. Pocket lint is not a good substitute for dollars.

We should pool our lint to save Little Tokyo's heritage. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
We should pool our lint to save Little Tokyo's heritage. :victory:

Haha. In spite of what I said about the lack of money, there are Japanese development dollars out there but not for Little Tokyo apparently. The new Miyako Hybrid Hotel adjacent to the Torrance Mitsuwa comes to mind. I guess the owners of the original Miyako Inn in Little Tokyo saw it fit to invest in developing another property in the Torrance area, which by all rights is the genuine successor to L.A.'s Little Tokyo.


http://www.miyakohybridhotel.com

Tu_triky wrote:Haha. In spite of what I said about the lack of money, there are Japanese development dollars out there but not for Little Tokyo apparently. The new Miyako Hybrid Hotel adjacent to the Torrance Mitsuwa comes to mind. I guess the owners of the original Miyako Inn in Little Tokyo saw it fit to invest in developing another property in the Torrance area, which by all rights is the genuine successor to L.A.'s Little Tokyo.


http://www.miyakohybridhotel.com

Had no idea it was a green hotel. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
Had no idea it was a green hotel. :victory:

Silver Leed certified no less. That's a pretty high standard to adhere to...

Tu_triky wrote:Silver Leed certified no less. That's a pretty high standard to adhere to...

When I'm at the Mitsuwa, I should walk over there and check the place out.

bmwracer wrote:
When I'm at the Mitsuwa, I should walk over there and check the place out.

Yeah, definitely. I, myself, should do the same.

JANM wins award: http://www.janm.org/press/release/256/ :applaud:

Cherry Blossom Festival, Little Tokyo, April 2nd-3rd:http://cherryblossomfestivalsocal.org/