Editing Miracle Mile, Los Angeles

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'''Miracle Mile''' is a neighborhood in the city of [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-10-24 |title=A Brief History of the Miracle Mile |url=https://miraclemilela.com/the-miracle-mile/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Miracle Mile Residential Association |language=en}}</ref>

It contains a stretch of [[Wilshire Boulevard]] known as Museum Row. It also contains two [[Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone|Historic Preservation Overlay Zones]]: the Miracle Mile {{abbr|HPOZ|Historic Preservation Overlay Zone}}<ref name="lacity.org">{{cite web|url=https://planning.lacity.org/preservation-design/overlays/miracle-mile-0|title=Miracle Mile - Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles|website=preservation.lacity.org|access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref> and the Miracle Mile North HPOZ.<ref name="lacity.org1">{{cite web|url=https://planning.lacity.org/preservation-design/overlays/miracle-mile-north|title=Miracle Mile North - Office of Historic Resources, City of Los Angeles|website=preservation.lacity.org|access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref>

==Geography==
Miracle Mile's boundaries are roughly [[3rd Street (Los Angeles)|3rd Street]] on the north, [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] on the east, [[San Vicente Boulevard]] on the south, and [[Fairfax Avenue]] on the west. Major thoroughfares include [[Wilshire Boulevard|Wilshire]] and [[Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles)|Olympic]] boulevards, [[La Brea Avenue|La Brea]] and [[Fairfax Avenue|Fairfax]] avenues, and 6th Street.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spitz |first1=H. May |title=Map of Miracle Mile |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118647037/map-of-miracle-mile/ |access-date=14 February 2023 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 13, 2004 |quote=The Miracle Mile district.... includes the Grove shopping complex on 3rd and expanded museums along Wilshire Boulevard}}</ref>

Google Maps identifies an irregularly shaped area labeled "Miracle Mile" that runs from Ogden Drive on the west to Citrus Avenue and La Brea Avenue on the east. The area is roughly bordered on the north by 4th Street and on the south by 12th Street.<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Miracle+Mile,+Los+Angeles,+CA/@34.0545725,-118.3515401,15.1z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x80c2b91f1603e8b9:0x8a28f71fdb231fe2!8m2!3d34.059534!4d-118.3491169 |title=The Miracle Mile Neighborhood as indicated on Google Maps|access-date=11 September 2017}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Miracle Mile, Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif (67298).jpg|thumb|left|Postcard, circa 1930 to 1945]]

In the early 1920s, Wilshire Boulevard west of [[Western Avenue (Los Angeles)|Western Avenue]] was an unpaved farm road, extending through dairy farms and bean fields. Developer A. W. Ross saw potential for the area and developed Wilshire as a commercial district to rival downtown Los Angeles. The "Miracle Mile" nickname first appeared in local newspapers on January 27, 1929.<ref name="KCET 2012-04-11">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/how-the-miracle-mile-got-its-name-a-brief-history-of-las-unlikely-retail-district|title=How the Miracle Mile Got Its Name: A Brief History of L.A.'s Unlikely Retail District|last=Masters|first=Nathan|date=2012-04-11|work=KCET|department=Lost LA|language=en|access-date=2019-09-13|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Miracle Mile development was initially anchored by the [[May Company California|May Company Department Store]] with its [[May Company Building (Wilshire, Los Angeles)|landmark 1939 Streamline Moderne building]] on the west<ref>{{Cite web |title=Water and Power Associates |url=https://waterandpower.org/Museum2/May_Co_Building.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=waterandpower.org}}</ref> and the E. Clem Wilson Building on the east, then Los Angeles's tallest commercial building. The Wilson Building had a dirigible mast on top and was home to a number of businesses and professionals relocating from downtown. The success of the new alternative commercial and shopping district negatively affected downtown real estate values, and triggered development of the multiple downtowns that characterize contemporary Los Angeles.

Ross's insight was that the form and scale of his Wilshire strip should attract and serve automobile traffic rather than pedestrian shoppers.{{r|KCET 2012-04-11}} He applied this design both to the street itself and to the buildings lining it. Ross gave Wilshire various "firsts," including dedicated left-turn lanes and timed traffic lights, the first in the United States. He also required merchants to provide automobile parking lots, all to aid traffic flow. Major retailers such as [[Desmond's (department store)|Desmond's]],{{r|KCET 2012-04-11}} [[Silverwoods]], May Co., [[Coulter's]], [[Harris and Frank]], [[Ohrbach's]], [[Mullen & Bluett]], [[Phelps-Terkel]], [[Myer Siegel]], and Seibu eventually spread down Wilshire Boulevard from Fairfax to La Brea. Ross ordered that all building facades along Wilshire be engineered so as to be best seen through a windshield. This meant larger, bolder, simpler signage and longer buildings in a larger scale.  They also had to be oriented toward the boulevard and architectural ornamentation and massing must be perceptible at 30 MPH (50&nbsp;km/h) instead of at walking speed. These building forms were driven by practical requirements but contributed to the stylistic language of [[Art Deco]] and [[Streamline Moderne]].

[[File:Highsmithmaycompanywilshire.jpg|thumb|The 1939 [[Streamline Moderne]] [[May Company Building (Wilshire, Los Angeles)|May Company Building]] marks the western border of the Miracle Mile and "Museum Row".]]
Ross's moves were unprecedented, a huge commercial success, and proved historically influential. Ross had invented the car-oriented urban form — what [[Reyner Banham]] called "the linear downtown" model later adopted across the United States. The moves also contributed to Los Angeles's reputation as a city dominated by the car. A sculptural bust of Ross stands at 5800 Wilshire, with the inscription, "A. W. Ross, founder and developer of the Miracle Mile. Vision to see, wisdom to know, courage to do."

As wealth and newcomers poured into the fast-growing city, Ross's parcel became one of Los Angeles's most desirable areas. Acclaimed as "America's [[Champs-Élysées]],"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/citydig-the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-again-of-miracle-mile|title=CityDig: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of Miracle Mile Los Angeles Magazine|date=24 February 2016|access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref> this stretch of Wilshire near the [[La Brea Tar Pits]] was named "Miracle Mile" for its improbable rise to prominence. Although the preponderance of [[shopping mall]]s and the development in the 1960s of financial and business districts in downtown and [[Century City, Los Angeles|Century City]] lessened the Miracle Mile's importance as a retail and business center, the area has regained its vitality thanks to the addition of several museums and commercial high-rises.{{r|KCET 2012-04-11}}

The black and gold '''Deco Building''' in [[Art Deco architecture|Art Deco style]] at '''5209 Wilshire''' was built in 1929, and is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. It was designed by the architecture firm of [[Morgan, Walls & Clements]], which also designed the [[Wiltern Theatre]], the [[El Capitan Theatre]], and other notable buildings in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Deco Building |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/the-deco-building/ |website=LA Conservancy |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>{{efn|According to historian David Leighton, of the ''[[Arizona Daily Star]]'' newspaper the Miracle Mile in [[Tucson, Arizona]] derives its name from Los Angeles' Miracle Mile.}}

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==Buildings==
Landmark buildings past and present, as well as some of the well-known businesses lining Wilshire during its main period as a retail center of Los Angeles (1930s–1960s). 
'''Architects''': MWC = [[Morgan, Walls, & Clements]], WB = [[Welton Becket]] & Associates
'''Styles''': AD = Art Deco, Ch = [[Churrigueresque]], ︎SCR = [[Spanish Colonial Revival]], SM = [[Streamline Moderne]] 
''Italics'' indicate demolished buildings.
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''6100''' [[Thrifty Drug Stores]] || rowspan=8 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"| W<br/>I<br/>L<br/>S<br/>H<br/>I<br/>R<br/>E   || '''6101''' [[Johnie's Coffee Shop]]
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''FAIRFAX''' || '''AVENUE'''
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''6060''' [[Seibu Department Stores]] (1960s, Welton Becket) then 2nd home of [[Ohrbach's]] Wilshire.<br/>Now [[Petersen Automotive Museum]]. || rowspan=2 style="vertical-align:top;"| '''6067''' May Company (1940, [[Albert C. Martin Sr.]] and S. A. Marx, SM):<br/>Now [[Saban Building|Saban Bldg]] home to [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]] (renovations –2021: [[Renzo Piano]])
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|style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | ORANGE GROVE AV.
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''[[5900 Wilshire]]''' (1971) || rowspan=4 style="vertical-align:middle;"| '''5905''' [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] ('''LACMA''')<br/>Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA Resnick Pavilion (2006–10, [[Renzo Piano]])︎
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | OGDEN DR.
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | SPAULDING AV.
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| style="text-align:center;" colspan=3 | LACMA David Geffen Gallery (spans Wilshire, under construction, [[Peter Zumthor]], arch.)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stevens |first1=Philip |title=Peter Zumthor plans LACMA's david geffen galleries |url=https://www.designboom.com/architecture/peter-zumthor-lacma-david-geffen-galleries-los-angeles-10-30-2017/ |website=designboom |access-date=22 April 2024 |language=en |date=30 October 2017}}</ref> 
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| style="text-align:right;" | Former buildings here:<br/>'''5840''' [[Mandel's]] Fascinating Slippers (1927–9, [[Spanish Colonial Revival architecture|Spanish Colonial Revival]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/381295944/|title=28 Aug 1957, 40 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ul2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT97|title=Miracle Mile in Los Angeles: History and Architecture|first=Ruth|last=Wallach|date=9 July 2013|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|via=Google Books}}</ref><br/>5814 [[Craft Contemporary]] museum (1930, [[Gilbert Stanley Underwood]])<br/>5800 Jack White insurance agency, later Craft and Folk Art Museum || ||LACMA Buildings replaced: <br/>LACMA Main buildings, 1964, [[William Pereira|Pereira & Assoc.]]<br/>LACMA 1984–6 addition, [[Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates|Hardy, Holzman & Pfeiffer]]<ref name=agla/> 
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | STANLEY AV. || rowspan=22 style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;"| W<br/>I<br/>L<br/>S<br/>H<br/>I<br/>R<br/>E<br/><br/><br/><br/>B<br/>O<br/>U<br/>L<br/>E<br/>V<br/>A<br/>R<br/>D ||
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| style="text-align:right;" | 5780 Citizens Nat'l Bank ||tyle="vertical-align:middle;"| '''5801''' [[La Brea Tar Pits]] & [[George C. Page Museum]] (1976, Thornton and Fagan)<ref name=agla/>
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | CURSON || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | STREET
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| style="text-align:right;" | || '''5757''' Prudential Bldg. ([[Welton Becket]] & William Wurdeman)<br/>(1st home of [[Ohrbach's]] Wilshire)<br/>renamed [[Museum Square]]<br/>now home to [[SAG-AFTRA]]
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | MASSELIN || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | AVENUE
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| style="text-align:right;" | 5656 Donavan & Seamans jewelers ︎|| 5665 [[Van de Kamp's Holland Dutch Bakeries|Van de Kamp's]] Coffee Shop and Restaurant<br/>[[Wilshire Bowl]] (1935, [[Max Maltzman]], AD)
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | HAUSER || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | BOULEVARD
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''''5600''' [[Coulter's]] (1938, [[Stiles O. Clements]], MWC, Streamline Moderne, demolished) later [[The Broadway]] (1960–1980).''<br/>Replaced by mixed-use building. || '''5615–23''' [[Ralph's]] (1927–8, MWC, SCR/Ch)<ref name=agla/><br/>'''5601''' [[Du-Par's]]
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | RIDGELEY || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | DRIVE
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| style="text-align:right;" |   '''5570''' [[Mullen & Bluett]] (1948, [[Stiles O. Clements]], MWC)<ref>{{cite web |title=Morgan, Walls & Clements Collection |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gb2bm8/dsc/?query=Mullen%20and%20Bluett:%20Type%201%20Group%20%22G%22%20retail%20store,%205570#aspace_c92b294e244d5bf76ed01903f27bf6f3 |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=22 April 2024 |quote=Mullen and Bluett: Retail store building, 5570 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles (Job 2304) 1948  Scope and Contents  Stiles O. Clements, architect. 89 drawings.}}</ref><br/>'''''5550''' [[Phelps-Terkel]] (1936, MWC, demolished)<ref name="mullen">{{cite web |title=Mullen and Bluett (demolished) |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/mullen-and-bluett-demolished/ |website=Los Angeles Conservancy |access-date=22 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Morgan, Walls & Clements Collection |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gb2bm8/dsc/?query=%225550%20wilshire%22;dsc.position=1#hitNum1 |website=Online Archive of California |access-date=22 April 2024 |quote=A. W. Ross: Addition to two story Class "D" building (Phelps Terkel, lessee), SW cor. Wilshire Blvd. and Burnside Ave. ( 5550 Wilshire ), Los Angeles}}</ref><br/>Replaced by mixed-use building.'' || '''5575''' Bond Stores (1956, [[Stiles O. Clements]], architect, [[Burke, Kober & Nicolais]], interiors),<ref>{{cite news |title=Bond Clothes Store to Open in Miracle Mile |url=http://newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-bond-clothes-store/145851839/ |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=10 October 1956 |pages=44}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bond Stores - ad |url=http://newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-bond-stores-ad/145851674/ |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=16 December 1960 |pages=7}}</ref> later [[Adray's]] appliances<br/>5571 Nahan & Robinson Shoes, 20th Century Toyland, Barton's Candies
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | BURNSIDE || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | AVENUE
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| style="text-align:right;" |  [[Wilshire Tower]] Bldg. (1928–9, [[Gilbert Stanley Underwood]], Art Deco):<br/>'''5522''' [[Silverwoods]], '''5500''' [[Desmond's (department store)|Desmond's]]. Now [[ACE Gallery]] et al.|| '''5515''' [[El Rey Theatre (Los Angeles)]] (1936, [[Clifford Balch]], [[Zigzag moderne|Zigzag]]/Streamline Moderne)<br/>'''5501''' Bank of America, Dodger Museum (1958-?)<ref>{{cite news |title=Dodger Museum to Open April 21 |url=https://newspapers.com/image/705289971/ |access-date=21 April 2024 |work=Press-Telegram |date=15 April 1958 |page=23 |language=en}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | DUNSMUIR ||style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | AVENUE
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| style="text-align:right;" | 5474 Celes'<br/>5464 Disco Drug<br/>5464 commercial bldg (1927, Frank M. Tyler, AD)<ref name=agla/><br/>'''5450''' Brooks Clothing (1936), rebranded [[Harris & Frank]] in 1947|| 5475 Jekyll's<br/>5471 Fabrics, Inc. (1952–?)<ref name=fabricsinc/><br/>'''5467''' [[Zachary All]] clothing, now [[Walgreens]]
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | COCHRAN || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | AVENUE
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| style="text-align:right;" |  [[Dominguez–Wilshire Building|Dominguez–Wilshire Bldg]] (1931, MWC):''''5416''' [[Weatherby-Kayser]] shoes<br/>'''5404''' [[C. H. Baker]] shoes<br/>'''5400''' [[Myer Siegel]] || 5415 A&P Food Palace, later Clover Mart<br/>5413 Roman's Food Mart (c.1935, SM)<ref name=agla/><br/>5403 Fabrics, Inc. ( –1952)<ref name=fabricsinc>{{cite news |title=New Fabric Store Opens Tomorrow On Miracle Mile |url=http://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news-new-fab/145836704/ |access-date=22 April 2024 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |date=23 January 1952 |pages=21}}</ref><br/>'''5401''' Jack's appliances<br/>Sontag Drugs<br/>'''NW corner''' Chandlers Shoes (c.1938, Marcus P. Miller)<ref name=agla>{{cite book |last1=Gebhard |first1=David |last2=Winter |first2=Robert |title=Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: 37. Wilshire Boulevard District Hancock Park |date=2003}}</ref>
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | CLOVERDALE || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | AVENUE
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| style="text-align:right;" |  5370 The Dark Room (1935, Marcus P. Miller, [[Programmatic architecture|Programmatic (novelty) architecture]])<ref name=agla/> || 5361 Staber Salon
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| style="text-align:right;font-size:80%;" | DETROIT || style="text-align:left;font-size:80%;" | STREET
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| style="text-align:right;" |  5324 New York Hat Store || 5301 McDonnell's restaurant
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| style="text-align:right;" | '''LA BREA''' || '''AVENUE'''
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| style="text-align:right;" |  '''5214''' Fox Ritz Theatre || '''5207–9''' Security-First Natl Bank (1929, MWC)<br/> now The Deco Bldg
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==Museum Row==
[[File:MuseumRowSignage.jpg|thumb|left|Museum Row sign at Fairfax {{abbr|Av.|Avenue}} and Wilshire {{abbr|Blvd.|Boulevard}}]]
[[File:Petersen Automotive Museum Landscape Photo by Socialbilitty.jpg|thumb|The [[Petersen Automotive Museum]] on Wilshire {{abbr|Blvd.|Boulevard}}]]
[[File:Levitated Mass at LACMA -Photo by Socialbilitty.jpg|thumb|left |''[[Levitated Mass]]'' at [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art|LACMA]]]]
The [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] (LACMA), The [[Petersen Automotive Museum]], [[Craft Contemporary]], [[George C. Page Museum]], and La Brea Tar Pits pavilions, among others, create "Museum Row" on the Miracle Mile.

The [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]] for the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]], designed by [[Renzo Piano]], is located in the former [[May Company California|May Company]] Department Store on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. A new contemporary structure for the museum's theaters is located behind the building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/academymuseum/|title=Home - Academy Museum of Motion Pictures|first=Academy Museum of Motion|last=Pictures|access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref> [[File:Highsmithlacmaoblique.jpg|thumb|The [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]]]]

==Historic Preservation Overlay Zones==

Miracle Mile contains two Historic Preservation Overlay Zones.

The Miracle Mile {{abbr|HPOZ|Historic Preservation Overlay Zone}} comprises 1,347 properties. Its boundaries are Wilshire Boulevard to the north, San Vicente Boulevard to the south, La Brea Avenue to the east, and Orange Grove Avenue to the west. It is located in the city's [[Mid-Wilshire|Wilshire]] community plan area.<ref name="lacity.org"/>

The Miracle Mile North {{abbr|HPOZ|Historic Preservation Overlay Zone}} primarily consists of single-family residences which are uniform in scale, massing and setbacks, the majority of which were built from 1924 to 1941. Its boundaries are Gardner and Detroit streets, between Beverly Boulevard and Third Street. It is located in the city's [[Mid-Wilshire|Wilshire]] community plan area.<ref name="lacity.org1"/>

==Transportation==

[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|Los Angeles Metro's]] [[D Line (Los Angeles Metro)|D Line]] [[Rapid transit|subway]] is being extended along Wilshire Boulevard to the Veterans Affairs Hospital, from its current terminus at Western Avenue in Koreatown.

In 1985, A federal ban on tunneling operations in the area was passed at the behest of the district's [[United States House of Representatives|congress]]ional representative [[Henry Waxman]] after an [[Salt Lake Oil Field#1985 Ross Dress for Less explosion|explosion]], caused by the buildup of [[methane]] seeping up through the district's long-depleted oil wells, destroyed a department store. The ban was implemented despite the fact that methane deposits abound in most of Los Angeles. In late 2005, the ban was overturned, owing to tunneling techniques that make it possible to mitigate the methane concern. A westerly extension of the subway was then  supported by many civic officials in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-17-me-waxman17-story.html|title=In a Reversal, Waxman Backs Westside Subway|last=Groves|first=Martha|date=2005-12-17|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-09-30|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://media.metro.net/projects_studies/westside/images/purpleline_projectmap.jpg|title=Los Angeles Metro}}</ref> the three cities through which the proposed extension runs. In early 2008, the project—which is destined to terminate in Santa Monica—received $5 billion in federal funds. In late 2008, Measure R passed, releasing $10 billion in reserve funds to start work on public transit projects in Los Angeles County. Service to three new stations, La Brea Station, Fairfax Station and La Cienega Station, is expected to begin in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=D Line Subway Extension Project - Section 1 |url=https://www.metro.net/projects/purple-section1/#status |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=LA Metro |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[File:Los-Angeles-Miracle-Mile-Wilshire-Aerial-view-from-south-August-2014.jpg|thumb|400px|Miracle Mile viewed from south.  Wilshire {{abbr|Blvd.|Boulevard}} runs left-to-right, lined with tall buildings.]]

==Education==
The area is within the [[Los Angeles Unified School District]], Board District 4.<ref>[http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/board/secretary/BoardDistrictMaps/2007-08%20Board%20District%204.pdf Board District 4 Map]. [[Los Angeles Unified School District]]. Retrieved on November 24, 2008.</ref>

==Landmarks==
Landmarks include The [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], the [[Petersen Automotive Museum]], [[SAG-AFTRA]], the [[El Rey Theatre (Los Angeles)|El Rey Theatre]], [[La Brea Tar Pits]], [[Park La Brea, Los Angeles|Park La Brea Apartments]], [[5900 Wilshire]], [[Ace Gallery]], the [[Zachary All]] building (5467), the [[Olympia Medical Center]], and the [[Academy Museum of Motion Pictures]]. [[Johnie's Coffee Shop]] is leased mostly for [[filmmaking]], but was also utilized as the west coast campaign office for [[Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016]]. At the border on the Northwest corner is the [[Writers Guild of America, West]], and at the border on the North is the [[Farmers Market (Los Angeles)|Farmers Market]], and [[The Grove at Farmers Market|The Grove]], followed by [[Pan-Pacific Auditorium|Pan-Pacific Park]].

==See also==
{{Portal|Greater Los Angeles}}
* [[Harold A. Henry]], president, [[Los Angeles City Council]]
* [[Ace Gallery]]

==References==
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==Notes==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Miracle Mile, Los Angeles}}
* {{cite web |title=Miracle Mile Neighborhood Map |url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/neighborhood/california/los-angeles/miracle-mile |website=zipdatamaps.com |access-date=21 November 2022}}
* [http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/communities/2004/la-re-guide13jun13,0,3224000.story?coll=la-realestate-communities-2004 ''Los Angeles Times'', Real Estate section, Neighborly Advice column: "<nowiki>[</nowiki>Miracle Mile:<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Older, it's got plenty of mileage left" (13 June 2004)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060626115653/http://www.yesterdayla.com/westside.html Historic Photo Essay of the Miracle Mile District]
* [http://www.miraclemilela.com/ Miracle Mile Residential Association]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424063617/http://www.miraclemilepatrol.org/ Miracle Mile Action Committee and Miracle Mile Safety Patrol]
* [http://tucson.com/news/blogs/streetsmarts/street-smarts-miracle-mile-s-roots-include-fancy-stores-the/article_21042d2b-b7a9-5107-8698-f8558de9c64f.html David Leighton, "Street Smarts: Miracle Mile's roots include fancy stores, the Mexican revolution," Arizona Daily Star, February 23, 2015]

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[[Category:Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zones]]
[[Category:Central Los Angeles]]
[[Category:Edge cities in Greater Los Angeles]]
[[Category:Former shopping districts and streets in Los Angeles]]