Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Thursday marks the official opening of USC Village. The campus extension stretches across 15 acres, adding three million square feet of student housing, green space, retail and academic facilities.
And it cost a cool $700 million bucks. USC Village has been three years in the making and included a lot of community input.
Still, anti-gentrification activists have concerns about uniting one of LA's poorest neighborhoods with one of its wealthiest universities. KPCC's Josie Huang has been reporting on USC village. She spoke to A Martinez about the school's efforts.
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