The Midnight Mission (new location) (Los Angeles, California)

 homeless shelter, shelter, skidpad

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Massive homeless shelter and service center.

The original Midnight Mission location was on 4th and Main streets. The Main Street side was packed with cardboard housing against the Midnight Mission building with its blue and white facade. Three times a day, every day of the year, hundreds of hungry people would line up outside waiting for up to an hour to eat in the small dining hall. Newspapers and television news from around the world would use this location as the poster child of the terrible homeless problems in the LA area.

However, in the late-1990s, as developers began finally renovating the adjacent historic buildings into upscale lofts for rent and purchase (many just across the street!), this homeless services icon became a very, very big issue. Developers eventually gave millions to the Midnight Mission to build a new facility further away (6th and San Pedro streets) so they could demolish what they saw as an eyesore and significant problem to the area's quality of life --not to mention the rampant drug abuse and crime present in the downtown homeless population. The move took place in 2005.

here's an article about the move.
articles.latimes.com/2003/dec/15/local/me-midnight15