“This is not the way city planning should work,” laments David Abel, a Los Angeles land-use consultant and publisher of the Planning Report, a real estate development newsletter. This would be twice the height of any other structure in Beverly Hills. Its developer is Wanda Beverly Hills Properties, a subsidiary of China’s Wanda Group. Wanda Beverly Hills launched the No on HH campaign in August with a contribution of $1.2 million. Meanwhile, a’Beckett fears the new Hilton tower will cast an ugly shadow over his property.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 21, 2016 20:56 UTC