WCBIC represents over 33 million square feet of residential, office and retail users.
Wilshire Center is a great place to live, work and shop.

Our Program:
Consist of  security, maintenance, marketing and advocacy.  A new team member is Chrysalis, a non-profit homeless support organization, who are handling the pick-up of the illegal bulk items and steam cleaning at the major intersections.   Besides the bulk pick-up, we are continuing the general maintenance and graffiti removal,  Portals, a non-profit homeless support organization, handles the sweeping of the major sidewalks in our area.  WCBIC has two evening security car patrols each with two armed officers seven days a week.  We have four security bike patrols and one car patrol during the day time hours for a total of nine officers that patrol our district day and night.   2007 budget is $760,402.  41.88% is for security, 31.61% is for maintenance, 13.61% is for marketing/promoting and advocacy, 9.99% for administration, and 3.37% for City cost. 

Click Here For An example of Security Activities (pdf)

Click Here For An example of Security Activities (pdf)

An example of the Maintenance Activities:
We have pressure washed at all the major intersections along Wilshire Boulevard. Wilshire and Wilton, Wilshire and Western, Wilshire and Normandie, Wilshire and Vermont also Wilshire and Hoover, Hoover and 7th Street, 3rd and Kenmore.

We have removed several tons of bulk items from various areas throughout the District.  We have removed Sofas, Stoves, Refrigerators, T.V's, Microwaves, Computers, Bicycles,Large Tables just to name a few. All items that are recyclable are taken to the nearest recycle center in the area. We have noticed a big difference in how clean the District is without all of the visible bulk items on the streets.

Here is a list of items removed on a weekend: 5 Mattresses, 8 Sofas, 4 Dressers, 5 pieces of Wood, a Large Door,  a Refrigerator, a Large Pillow,  2 Chairs, and  a Toilet Bowl

On Going Project:

We are working to improve the traffic congestion issues with CRA's traffic consultant that has recently been hired to analysis our traffic conditions, future growth in traffic, and to find creative solutions to our issue of traffic within our community.

We are working with the Miracle Mile Chamber of Commerce and Tom LaBonge’s office to do some workshops about the future of the Wilshire Corridor between Wilshire Center and Miracle Mile. For more information

We are working with LAUSD and Mayor's Office to create a public park along Wilshire Blvd. at the old Ambassador site.

We are working with CRA on the use of over 50 million dollars of tax increment funds that are to be collected over the next five years for our community.

We are in discussion with the Ambassador Hill Neighborhood Association and CRA about improvements along Third Street.

We are working with assessees on Alexandria Ave and on Mariposa to assist in their request for preferential parking on their streets.

We are working with Angels Walk Wilshire.   Angels Walk is a self-guided historical tour by way of stanchion panels along the Wilshire Center’s sidewalks. This project is moving forward and should be installed this year.

We are working with the City and the LA Times on getting new newsracks. The old racks should be replaced with new ones this year. The City is currently enforcing the news rack ordinance out in the Valley.

We are current finishing our work with the City's Streetlighting Dept. to install 87 new street lights along Wilshire Blvd.  The quality of light during the evening is very good. The light quality is a white, brighter light; you will notice the difference if you look west of Wilton and east of Hoover along Wilshire Blvd.

We received $25,000 to fund a holiday lights program.

We are exploring with Portals and CRA about funding a homeless outreach program where we have trained individuals that would work with the homeless in our community in order to help them find ways out of being homeless. 

An assets value story
The Getty Oil Tower/Union Bank Bldg, south west corner of Wilshire/Western was purchased in 1995 for about $5 million, was purchased in 2003 for about $20 million, then in 2005 purchased for $60 million by Forest City Residential Group to develop condos, and when Forest City is done with the project in the next year or so the value will be $140 million. This story shows that asset property values have increased dramatically since 1995, at the beginning of the WCBIC’s work, a value change of about $135 million for this one property in just over 10 years.

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