Promenade towers *

The concept for demolishing the Frank Gehry-designed Santa Monica Place shopping mall has become clearer. Although the developer's idea has been billed as extending Third Street Promenade another block to Colorado, what the project is really about is a trio of 21-story towers that would be the tallest on the Santa Monica skyline. Martha Groves reports in the Times that the towers would have condos and apartments, on top of two stories of retail.

* And: A front-page story in the new L.A. Business Journal goes into the public backlash the proposal has created. Santa Monica councilman Kevin McKeown calls towers on the Promenade "dead on arrival."