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Published on Friday, October 03, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
The last time Little Tokyo tried getting back to its Japanese roots, it was in the early 1980s with the Japanese Village Plaza, a warren of sweets shops, tea stands and trinket stores under sloping glazed-tile roofs.
Now, on the eve of the area's most ambitious development project in decades, the historically Japanese enclave has something different in mind: trendy boutiques and stylish apartments enclosed in sleek mid-rise towers.
As Little Tokyo's ethnic vibe changes with newcomers filling new housing, neighborhood leaders are making a bid to lure hip young Japanese-Americans back to the neighborhood with the $300 million Nikkei Center, a sprawling complex of apartments, shops and public gardens being built on the area's last major undeveloped parcel
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