Crenshaw : Revitalization Panel Named

City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter has named 15 Crenshaw-area merchants and residents to a committee that will help the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency develop plans to revitalize the Santa Barbara Plaza shopping center, a collection of aging stores on the south side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, one block west of Crenshaw Boulevard.

The committee will review the findings of a team of consultants who are studying the future of the shopping center and will make recommendations to the redevelopment agency and Galanter.

“Nothing is more important to this community than economic revitalization, and nothing is more important to revitalization than to have the community involved in the process from the very beginning,” Galanter said.

Galanter’s appointees to the Santa Barbara Plaza Advisory Committee are: Karim Ansar, president of the Santa Barbara Plaza Merchants Assn.; Wayne-Kent A. Bradshaw, of Family Savings & Loan; Glenn Buchanan, property owner; Sharon Turner Clay, vice president of the Crenshaw Chamber of Commerce; Joe Epps of the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw/Leimert Park Planning Board, and Theora Granville, president of Consolidated Realty.

Also appointed were Frank Holoman, restaurant owner; Tony Howell, property owner; the Rev. Billy Ingram of Maranatha Church; Ralph Issacs, president of Baldwin Village Apartment Owners; Harry Lee, cleaning-store owner; John Mack, president of Los Angeles chapter, Urban League; Sylvia Drew-Ivie, executive director of T.H.E. Clinic; Adrienne Mayberry, board member of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Network, and Lettye Young, president of Crenshaw Senior Citizens.