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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Sandy Bleifer papers
creator:
Bleifer, Sandy
Identifier/Call Number: 7077
Physical Description:
8 Linear Feet
8 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1990-2010
Abstract: During her years as a real estate broker and historic preservation advocate in downtown Los Angeles, Sandra Bleifer created
and collected a trove of materials documenting the revitalization of downtown in the 1990s and 2000s--decades witnessing an
enormous amount of development and gentrification in the city's historic core and neighboring districts. The collection comprises
materials on a variety of revitalization projects, plans, and studies undertaken by different organizations and individuals,
including a study of the jewelry industry undertaken by USC graduate students in 2005, a plan for the Broadway theatre district,
and rehabilitation projects for the Red Car trolley and St. Vibiana's cathedral. Also included are minutes of the Lincoln
Heights Historic Preservation Board, various reports, brochures on residential loft development in historic buildings, and
Bleifer's own transactional files that detail historic information about the buildings she had listed as a broker.
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Sandy Bleifer is an artist and real estate agent/developer. She earned her B.A. in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1962 and exhibited
her work extensively from the early 1970s through 1997. In the mid-1990s she began to focus her attention on the revitalization
of downtown Los Angeles.
During her years as a real estate broker and historic preservation advocate in downtown Los Angeles, Sandra Bleifer created
and collected a trove of materials documenting the revitalization of downtown in the 1990s and 2000s--decades witnessing an
enormous amount of development and gentrification in the city's historic core and neighboring districts. The collection comprises
materials on a variety of revitalization projects, plans, and studies undertaken by different organizations and individuals,
including a study of the jewelry industry undertaken by USC graduate students in 2005, a plan for the Broadway theatre district,
and rehabilitation projects for the Red Car trolley and St. Vibiana's cathedral. Also included are minutes of the Lincoln
Heights Historic Preservation Board, various reports, brochures on residential loft development in historic buildings, and
Bleifer's own transactional files that detail historic information about the buildings she had listed as a broker.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Sandra Bleifer papers, Collection no. 7077, Regional History Collection, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Sandra Bleifer, December 4, 2018.
The collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Real estate development -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Archival resources
Correspondence
Ephemera
Newspapers
Photographs
Reports
Bleifer, Sandy -- Archives