Every Sunday morning, Ivar Avenue abounds with fresh veggies, aromatic street food, and throngs of basket-toting foodies shopping LA’s largest farmers’ market. The Hollywood farmers’ market opened in 1991 and has become an iconic symbol of the local food movement. But the weekly street closures to accommodate the market also inhibit entry to the main parking garages for the Los Angeles Film School. Growing demand for labs and film festival space has put pressure on the school to provide parking on Sunday mornings, turning a once amicable relationship with the farmers’ market hostile. Now the film school wants to prevent street closures, restricting the size of the market and its income. The loss of revenue, which organizers rely on, might have a negative impact on other area markets. Can these two Hollywood institutions coexist?
Guests:
Michael Woo, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles; Dean of Cal Poly Pomona’s school of environmental design
Adam Englander, spokesman for the LA Film School