location of new RFK 578 million Hi school, los angeles

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I have looked at location of New Robert F Kennedy school in Los Angeles, which cost a whopping 587 million. It is located at 3400 Wilshire Blvd in Korea Town, at former site of the Historic Ambassador Hotel. Goog map still shows it under construction. It lies on Wilshire blvd between Normandie and Vermont Ave, and stretches south from Wilshire to 8th street.

Koreatown along that stretch of Wilshire is a busy commercial strip of high-rises which houses mostly Chinese-korean businesses, and is the center for the far East LA expat/immigrant community. But if u go away from that busy commercial strip even a few blocks u get into the koreatown ghettos, which are mostly filled with recent latino immigrants. They in fact surround and inundate this district.

Koreatown is volatile, largely marginal, and is considered a high-crime district. Remember the LA riots in 1992 and also that 17-year old female high school student who was abducted/murdered by a transient.

From Koreatown all the way east to the edges of LA DWTN(Think Pico-Union, Westlake, drug-infested MacAarthur park)is a degenerated run-down illegal immigrant-filled district which lies almost in the shadows of LA DWTN high rises. Go north/NE to the 101 freeway and you get into more degenerated illegal-immigrant slumzones such as Rampart.

The LASUD, who's gleaming headquarters hi-rise is one mile east at 333 Beaudry street(the 1st street west of Harbor Freeway 110), built this costly boondoogle school to educate the districts huge anchor kids population, who are mostly anchor offspring of illegals or recent green card immigrants. Also put up in 2008 was the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center( site of costly environ cleanup when it was known as Belmont High), which cost 377 million. It is just a few blocks up the street from the LAUSD command center hi-rise. Roybal is in an even worse ghetto area than RFK.

90% of the kids in these costly state-of-the-art schools will be anchor kids of working class/impoverished Hispanic immigrants(including illegals) at cost of 15,000-20,000 per kid if you factor in cost of the buildings.

I will not delve too much into the byzantine bond/taxpayer funding for the schools, or for all the other 100+ new/refurbished primary schools which have been or are in process of being built all over LA City/County, most of them in impoverished or declining districts heavily populated/re-populated by recent immigrants. All i will say is the voters of LA/CA passed these bond measures early to mid decade before the great CA economic collapse from 2008 to present.