The Beverly Hills City Council will discuss extending the traffic closure on North Canon Drive at its September 21 meeting. The cul-de-sac-like closure was implemented in 2018 to facilitate construction on the Metro D Line extension (formerly known as the Purple Line). Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the vehicular dead end has become a vibrant dining space through the city’s OpenBH program. The Council will also consider whether to permit dining tents on North Canon to continue operations and for how long.
The timing of the pandemic with the street closure threw a lifeline to Beverly Hills culinary institution Spago, which struggled as the pandemic decimated business. Expanding into the cul-de-sac with the large dining pavilion has proved vital to business, Spago owner Barbara Lazaroff told the Courier.
