Suit filed over Autrey

Neighborhood groups in northeast Los Angeles have filed suit against the city and the Autry National Museum, challenging an ambitious renovation at the Griffith Park landmark. Dakota Smith in the Daily News.

Filed by the Highland Park Heritage Trust and the Mount Washington Homeowners Alliance on July 26, the suit claims the city failed to consider the environmental impact of the exhibition space proposed at the Autry.

The suit also argues that the "underlying motive of the Autry is to move all collections off the Southwest Museum site and to dispose of the historic National Register of Historic Places building."

Joan Cumming, director of public relations at the Autry, said she had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment.