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What's aiming to be an iconic landmark in the heart of Los Angeles is nearing its completion date and the construction not only features groundbreaking designs, but a groundbreaking workforce.
Rosa Garcia is a carpenter on Skanska construction’s 6th Street Bridge project. After years in retail, she switched careers in 2016 to work in construction and has learned how to maneuver in a career typically dominated by men.
Bridge carpenter apprentice Chanel Waits did her first ever union job in downtown Los Angeles.
The largest bridge project in Los Angeles is under construction with an unprecedented number of women on the work force.
It was a spectacle that would stay with him into adulthood: two imposing arches that soared past as his father’s blue Ford Tempo whizzed down the 6th Street Bridge.
Pete Chavez made sure to peer out the rear window at those iconic structures every time his family traveled between East Los Angeles and downtown.
A section of a landmark Los Angeles bridge that’s being demolished will be saved from the scrapheap.
Officials say one of the steel arches from the Sixth Street Bridge east of downtown will be placed in 12 acres of greenspace being developed under the bridge.
One arch from the old bridge will be preserved during demolition and used in a community space that will be built underneath the bridge
A historic bridge in downtown Los Angeles built nearly a century ago is slated for $422 million replacement project, city officials announced Friday.
Until three years ago Yurvina Hernández worked as a physical therapist but after hearing that she could venture into the construction environment, she decided to give it a try.
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