This is just a short post to update you on newly obtained information about the impending West Adams Business Improvement District. For a decent recap of the situation read my last post on the subject over here. The BID consultant is Marco Li Mandri of New City America, but according to some emails that I obtained this evening, Donald Duckworth was also talking to Catherine Randall of CIM Group, who seems to be heading up the BID establishment project in support of her employer’s growing investment in West Adams real estate.
Duckworth, of course, is famous in these parts for the surreal level of cruelty and slapstick incompetence with he manages to imbue the ordinary everyday BID facism to which every BIDologist is accustomed. They’re against street vending, he forces local business owners to denounce themselves for supporting street vending. They obstruct my access to their documents in violation of the California Public Records Act. His violations are so flagrant that I had to sue him twice on the same day. They illegally lobby City officials. He…well, he also illegally lobbies City officials. They’re a bunch of white supremacists. He lives in Arcadia, California, a city with a population of 57,000 which includes fewer than 700 African-Americans.
He’s quite a piece of work, is our Mr. Duckworth, and the thought of him having anything whatsoever to do with West Adams, even the thought of him walking the very streets, let alone being involved with such a powerfully satanic tool of cultural mutation as a West Adams BID will be, is nauseating indeed. Even the very emails that are the nominal subject of this post, well, I mean, they pale in comparison, but they’re pretty pale to begin with other than the revelation about El Duckie.1 You can read transcriptions after the break.
Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.corn> Tue, Dec 11,2018 at 6:42 PM
To: “rita.moreno@lacity.org” <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
Hi Rita,
I was given your information by Don Duckworth at the Melrose BID and am hoping to set up a meeting with you, before the holidays if possible, to discuss a new BID we’re working on forming in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please let us know your availability and I look forward to meeting.
Best,
Catherine
Catherine Randall
Project Coordinator, Development
323.860.7415 direct | 917.836.7079 mobile
CIM
CIM Group
4700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90010
www.cimgroup.com
Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:27 AM
Subject: City of Los Angeles Mail – New BID Formation
To: CRandall@cimgroup.com
Cc: gkuba@cimgroup.com
Hi Catherine,
We have also been contacted by New City America about forming a BID in the West Adams area. We can meet next week. Let me know some dates and times and I’ll confirm my availability.
Thanks.
Rita
Rita Moreno
City of Los Angeles
Office of the City Clerk
Neighborhood and Business Improvement District Division
200 N. Spring Street, 3rd Floor #395
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Office (213) 978-1122
Fax (213) 978-1130
Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.com> Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:01 AM
To: Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
Hi Rita,
Do any of these times work – Monday at 9am or anytime late afternoon; Tuesday at 10am or 1pm.
Thanks so much,
Catherine
Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org> Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:05 AM
To: CRandall@cimgroup.com
Cc: gkuba@cimgroup.com
Both days and the times work for me. Let me know the meeting location as well.
Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.com> Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:15 AM
To: Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
We can meet you at our office at 4700 Wilshire unless you’d like to meet at your office. Let’s say Tuesday at 10am.
Catherine Randall
Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.com> Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:05 PM
To: Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
Hi Rita,
Just confirming our meeting today at 2pm at 4700 Wilshire.
Looking forward to meeting,
Catherine
Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org> Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:14 PM
To: Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.com>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
Yes, I’ll be there. I forgot; is it street parking only, or does the building have parking?
Catherine Randall <CRandall@cimgroup.com> Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 12:16 PM
To: Rita Moreno <rita.moreno@lacity.org>
Cc: Geffen Kuba <gkuba@cimgroup.com>
You can park in the surface parking lot behind the building.
Catherine Randall
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