Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sandy Bleifer papers
- Dates:
- 1990-2019
- Creators:
- Bleifer, Sandy
- 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. In 2024, Bleifer donated an accrual to the collection, comprising material relating to her role as a board member of LA Artcore--an organization committed to using the arts to connect and reinvigorate neighborhoods--as well as her involvement in other revitalization projects, such as the Fashion Business Incubator, an effort to nurture start up apparel manufacturing; Angels Walk LA; and Saving the Venice Walk Streets, which in 1993 advocated for the preservation of pedestrian-only streets.
- Extent:
- 11.88 Linear Feet 10 boxes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Sandra Bleifer papers, Collection no. 7077, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Background
- Scope and content:
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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. In 2024, Bleifer donated an accrual to the collection, comprising material relating to her role as a board member of LA Artcore--an organization committed to using the arts to connect and reinvigorate neighborhoods--as well as her involvement in other revitalization projects, such as the Fashion Business Incubator, an effort to nurture start up apparel manufacturing; Angels Walk LA; and Saving the Venice Walk Streets, which in 1993 advocated for the preservation of pedestrian-only streets.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Sandra Bleifer, December 4, 2018 and December 19, 2024.
- Processing information:
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The collection is unprocessed.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-06-25 14:45:06 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
- Terms of access:
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All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Box/folder no. or item name], Sandra Bleifer papers, Collection no. 7077, Regional History Collection, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
- Location of this collection:
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Special CollectionsDoheny Memorial Library, Room 209Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182, US
- Contact:
- (213) 740-5900