Travel to U.S.: West: Los Angeles 2011: Photo 28

If you really want something American, come around to this motel on the south side of the center. This is one of the last pictures to be taken of it, because the developer of Americana at Brand, Ric Caruso, had bought the site and was ready to demolish the building. In its place, he had persuaded Nordstrom to abandon the Galleria a block away and move into a new home here. This was a blow to the Galleria, which in previous years had fought a long and unsuccessful legal battle to block construction of Americana, but the Galleria (one of General Growth's many malls) seemed to have made peace with its neighbor, perhaps because there wasn't a lot of competition between them. It might turn out that each benefited from the other. Right turn for fancy stuff, left for cheap.

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