Dive Brief:
- A Target store and shopping center in Hollywood has to stop all construction work immediately because its city permit is illegal, a California judge has ruled.
- Two neighborhood groups sued because the city approved a 74-foot-high project in an area where zoning limits buildings to 35 feet.
- Superior Court Judge Richard L. Fruin Jr. ordered Target's permits to be pulled and says everything has to stop, though the city attorney's office is looking for some kind of plan that could allow construction to continue.
Dive Insight:
The ruling is a blow to LA mayor Eric Garcetti, who backed the project, and who saw the city approve the project in 2010 and reapprove it in 2012.. The Target is already roofed in, and the store is arguing that stopping construction altogether would hurt construction workers on the job.