According to LA Downtown News, while AEG’s proposed downtown football stadium, Farmers Field, remains on hold, the city’s Bureau of Engineering will most likely be holding a three-team design competition to rebuild part of its sister project: the LA Convention Center, down the street.

AEG’s Populous-designed plan for the convention center, whose funding depends on the construction of Farmers Field, calls for demolishing the older of the center’s two buildings, the West Hall, and building a new structure that continues to the south, bridging Pico Boulevard. “The plan is shovel-ready at this point,” AEG’s Brad Gessner, told Downtown News.

But if that proposal is unable to go ahead by its October 18 deadline, the city is preparing to solicit teams for a “Plan B,” a more modest renovation of the existing convention center.  Vicki Curry, spokesperson for LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, told AN that the Bureau of Engineering is considering a three firm design competition for this plan, but that its Task Order Solicitation—involving a general request for qualifications— has not yet been released.