Épinay, Louise Florence Pétronille (de Tardieu d'Esclavelles) La Live d', 1726-83, French woman of letters. Influential in the Enlightenment, she was the friend of many of its leaders, especially Melchior Grimm, her literary heir, and Diderot. She was Rousseau's benefactress until 1757, when they quarreled, and subsequently they attacked each other in their writings. She wrote a treatise on the education of girls, Les Conversations d'Émilie (pub. 1775 though volume bears date 1774). Her memoirs and correspondence (1818, tr. 1897, 1930) give a vivid account of her circle.

L.A. Live is currently under construction in downtown Los Angeles, California. Adjacent to the Staples Center, L.A. Live is slated to cost approximately USD $2.5 billion to be paid by owner Anschutz Entertainment Group, Wachovia Corp. and investment firm MacFarlane Partners with help from Los Angeles taxpayers. It will feature of apartments, ballrooms, bars, concert theaters, condominiums, restaurants, movie theaters and a hotel, on a site.

The district will feature entertainment venues, restaurants, retail commercial and residential spaces, television and radio broadcast studios and concert spaces. The district will include a 54–story tower housing two hotels and serviced residences (under the JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton and Residences At The Ritz-Carlton brands), an outdoor plaza, an ESPN broadcast and restaurant facility, Regal Theatres, as well as Club Nokia, the Nokia Theatre Los Angeles, and Nokia Plaza.

Features

Nokia Plaza

Nokia Plaza is a open-air plaza that will serve as the central meeting place for L.A. Live. The Plaza will provide a broadcast venue featuring giant LED screens as well as a red carpet site for special events.

Nokia Theatre

Nokia Theatre Los Angeles is a mid-sized music and theatre venue seating 7,100. The theatre will host the Latin Grammy Awards and ESPY Awards. Club Nokia will be a venue for live music and cultural events that will accommodate up to 2,300 patrons.The club may also be used to host private parties and corporate events.

The first scheduled event held at Nokia Theatre was a concert featuring the Eagles and the the Dixie Chicks on October 18, 2007. National events hosted since have included the American Music Awards on November 18, 2007 and the finale of the seventh season of American Idol on May 21, 2008.

On March 11, 2008, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced with AEG that the venue will be the home to the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony from 2008 until at least 2018.

Grammy Museum

On May 8, 2007, it was announced that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will place a museum dedicated to the history of the Grammy Awards.

ESPN West Coast Headquarters

ESPN Network is scheduled to move into the broadcast center once the second phase of development is completed in late 2008. A studio and an ESPN Zone restaurant are scheduled for inclusion in the building on the corner of Figueroa Street and Chick Hearn Court.

An additional broadcasting center is planned to accommodate national and local entertainment coverage, including ABC sports, news and music broadcasts.

J.W. Marriott/Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residences

The centerpiece of the district will be the tower, a 54–story, 1,001 room two-hotel hybrid constructed above the parking lot directly north of the Staples Center. The tower was delayed for a time, but local homebuilder KB Home recently signed an agreement to help build the hotel, thus construction has also begun on the hotel and is on its 17th floor of construction as of early July 2008.

Herbalife Headquarters/Office Space

Office space is to be created for AEG, and Herbalife is slated to move its headquarters to L.A. Live in December 2008.

Timeline

Construction began in September 2005. The district is expected to revive Downtown Los Angeles and help it compete with San Diego and San Francisco for convention center business.

The first phase opened in October 2007 and contains the Nokia Theatre, the Nokia Plaza, a retail plaza, as well as an underground parking garage, holding a fraction of the project's expected total of 4,000 parking spaces.

Phase	Phase description	Scheduled Opening
Phase 1	7,000-seat Nokia Theater and Nokia Plaza	Completed
Phase 2	ESPN studios and ESPN Zone restaurant/arcade complex, restaurants, Grammy Museum, Club Nokia, Lucky Strike bowling alley, and The Conga Room	October 2008
Final Phase	54-story Ritz-Carlton/JW Marriott hotel and the 14-screen West Coast flagship theatre multiplex operated by Regal Cinemas	Late 2009

See also

• Staples Center
• Hollywood and Highland
• Kodak Theatre
• Grand Avenue Project
• Park Fifth Towers

References

External links

• NOKIA Theatre - L.A. Live
• L.A. Live
• RTKL L.A. Live
• The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
• Los Angeles Sports Council
• Staples Center official web site