The economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the future of Olvera Street. Stay-at-home orders prevent people from gathering at the plaza.

Olvera Street, situated in the area where the city was born in 1781, is home to dozens of craft shops, restaurants and businesses. The new development site is just north of the 101 Freeway between ...

“We have Olvera Street, we have La Plaza, now the La Plaza Village. I think it’ll lead to a co-mingling, rather than to a division or keeping people from coming here and it’ll be more welcoming.

Olvera Street has a complex history within Los Angeles. The street is among the most historic in the city and still counts the oldest home in LA — the Avila Adobe, built in 1818 — as one of ...

Walk around Olvera Street and you’ll notice it: A large stuffed donkey with a cart, draped in traditional colorful serapes, greeting you as you walk into the plaza.. Known as La Carreta, the ...

Just 600 feet long, LA’s Olvera Street is the oldest street in the city, a brick-paved lane that functions as a marketplace, theme park, and a living museum. The street as we know it today — an ...

Olvera Street, the city's oldest suburb and home to many of the oldest buildings in Los Angeles, was named one of the American Planning Association's Great Places in America for 2015.

As a young man growing up in 1980s Los Angeles, Pedro Alamillo would often find himself on Olvera Street, a historic downtown enclave known as the “birthplace of Los Angeles.” Alamillo would ...

Walk around Olvera Street and you’ll notice it: A large stuffed donkey with a cart, draped in traditional colorful serapes, greeting you as you walk into the plaza.. Known as La Carreta, the ...