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New Yorkers watch the New Year come in at Times Square, now some business boosters want Los Angeles to have its own tradition at---the County Mall downtown? That's the strip of grass, Jacaranda trees, concrete and homeless people that connects the Music Center and City Hall. Kathryn Maese, city editor of the Downtown News, writes that a plan will be unveiled tomorrow calling for bands, video screens, midnight fireworks and $15 tickets.
L.A. planners have had a notoriously bad track record when it comes to throwing a New Year's bash, and have struggled to create a tradition that could draw thousands of Angelenos to a signature locale. But Downtown business leaders say they have a solution that could end the bad rap while appealing to both young and old revelers.
Count us as skeptical.