Locals strolling Hollywood’s Young Circle may have noticed changes afoot within the aging La Piazza complex, a low-slung shopping strip crowned with apartments on Hollywood Boulevard.
A Cricket phone retailer is shuttered. The FedEx facility is gone, too, having moved to Tyler Street. And one of La Piazza’s last holdouts, J28 Sandwich Bar — an 11-year-old Peruvian eatery and TV-famous favorite of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host Guy Fieri — is expected to close its location by the end of May.
So what’s happening here?…