Some feel cheated by change in film academy’s Hollywood museum plans
“The visitors came with a box of doughnuts and an offer to buy the Hollywood property that Funk Bros. Automotive had called home for more than a decade.
In its place, they said, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences wanted to build a movie museum.
Hovig Manouchekian, manager of his family’s car repair shop, remembers the 2006 meeting with the academy’s real estate agent and a representative of the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles as tense — with the two men pressuring him to make a deal, or force the CRA to seize the land with its powers of eminent domain.”
Miller, Daniel. LA Times 28 February 2014.