Hammer Museum Gets $100K to Revitalize Westwood Village

The Hammer Museum will use a $100,000 award to implement a project that aims to revitalize the Westwood Village area.

The museum is one of 10 organizations that won $100,000 as part of an LA2050 contest that asked for project ideas that would benefit Los Angeles.

It will use the money to curate an "artisanal pop-up village" in Westwood and take over some of the vacant storefronts. The museum will "work with the building owners in the Village to provide work and retail space for artists and artisans in greater Los Angeles to sell their wares and artistic output," according to the project description.

"We believe this once thriving neighborhood can recover if it approaches its troubles with a strategy that has proved effective over and over again throughout the country—work with the creative community," the description says. 

View all of the My LA2050 challenge winners here.

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