The Conservancy received $65,000 to draw up preservationguidelines for property owners and builders in the Historic Core.The Italian Hall Foundation was the recipient of $35,000 to draftplans for restoring the building, once an important communitycenter for LA's Italian-American community, into anItalian-American museum.

The Historic Core grant area includes the Historic CoreDistrict, which consists of two adjacent National Historic RegisterSites: The Broadway Historic Theater District and the Spring StreetHistoric Financial District. Bounded by Third, Hill, Ninth and Mainstreets, the Core district includes the Bradbury Building and muchof the south end of Downtown.

The three-story brick Italian Hall, at the northwest end of ElPueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, was built in 1908. Itwill use its $35,000-grant to hire IQ Magic museum designers todraft the museum plans. The project's cost is estimated at $1.6million, says Gloria Ricci Lothrop, chairwoman of the Historic HallFoundation.