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Helping Vendors Thrive

Street Vending has always been an integral part of the Leimert Park History. On Sunday's afternoon year round, can find the People's Street and Sankofa Walk busting with local entrepreneurs and artists, sharing the gifts with the community. In addition to the market place of African Culture products, visitors are greeted by the sounds of the drum circle and the aromas of coffee houses, cafes and restaurants.

Vending Permit Types

Rules and Regulations

Permit Requirements

HISTORIC

Leimert Park Village

At the Sunday drum circle at Leimert Park, the hypnotic beat of African drums breathes life into the neighborhood. Artists showcase their work. Vendors hawk clothes, soap and incense.
It almost feels like nothing has changed in the 20 years since this was the vibrant heart of the African American arts and culture scene in Los Angeles.

In its heyday, the neighborhood was something of a West Coast Harlem dotted with jazz cafes, performance spaces and art galleries, and it was the community’s gathering spot after the 1992 riots.

Efforts to revitalize the area by trying to attract chain stores and shopping center developments have been rejected by residents, saying they would prefer to restore it as a center of African American arts, culture and local owned businesses.

“All the neighborhoods in South L.A. have changed except one: the Leimert Park area,” said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. “It is the last vestige of not only a predominantly populated African American community, but also a predominantly business-centered African American community.”
-Article by LA Times

T E S T I M O N I A L S

Happy Client

With the help and resources I received from Leimert Park Village Vendors. I was able to properly obtain my street vendors permit and became informed of all the rules that apply to street vending. Now, I can securely setup shop without being harassed. Thanks!!!

- Leimert Park Village Vendor