Los Angeles County, which owns the former hospital, has launched a multi-year program to reconfigure the H-shaped building into homeless and affordable housing.
The room is a marvel of architectural oddities. On one wall a cathedral-sized window frames the Eastside skyline. Facing it, several rows of wood-backed theater seats fan out, arching up at a dizzying angle to the ceiling three stories up.
Using state and local funds, the county has committed $250 million to take the first step, preparing the 19-story building for its remake. That alone will be a huge project: removing asbestos and other hazardous materials, upgrading electrical and water systems, installing air conditioning and fire sprinklers, restoring inoperative elevators and building seismic shear walls. The prep work is expected to start early next year and be finished by next summer.
The final timeline is subject to negotiation with the developer. But construction would start in 2024 at the earliest, with completion in 2026.parcels on the northwest quadrant of the grounds, the county will continue developing the 8-acre Restorative Care Village, a complex of short-term and permanent housing for homeless patients with medical and mental health needs.
Architectural, cultural and environmental imperatives dictated against tearing the outmoded building down.Its significance as the centerpiece of the county’s healthcare system is embodied in Salvatore Cartaino Scarpitta‘s concrete statues overlooking the entrance — the Angel of Mercy comforting an infirm couple flanked by Hippocrates, Louis Pasteur, Galen and other figures in medical history.
Like City Hall and the Griffith Observatory, General Hospital is embedded in the identity of Los Angeles, standing broad-shouldered and tall in vistas from the 10 and 5 freeways or via a window seat on LAX’s flight path. It’s also a fixture in popular culture as the iconic hospital in the long-running TV soap opera of the same name.
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