After planning and navigating the Los Angeles city bureaucracy for longer than they’d hoped, supporters marked a milestone recently in getting a key permit for a lighted gateway sign to be installed on Sixth Street near Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro.
The Los Angeles Board of Public Works approved the sign earlier this month.
“We overcame the two largest hurdles, which was approval from the Department of Cultural Affairs as well as the Bureau of Engineering,” said Ryan Blaney, executive director of the San Pedro Property Owners’ Alliance, which is sponsoring the project.
The next steps call for a “couple minor permits” to get through, he said. The overall cost came to about $200,000.
While no firm installation schedule has been put in place yet, the sign is anticipated to go up sometime in the first quarter of 2025, Blaney said.
“The shell has been constructed offsite and work continues to have it ready for install,” he said.
The idea of an arched, lighted sign spanning a key San Pedro intersection street had been languishing for years with little success.
The project was complicated: The location alone required extensive research and consultation with Los Angeles city officials. And then there was the choice of a design.
After informal consultations with the city to help identify a site that did not conflict with utility infrastructure, the PBID plan got a needed reboot in 2022 when a request for designs finally went out for ideas.
Three selected design options were unveiled for public review the following year.
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