Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced on Monday that she would be softening the curfew imposed on downtown Los Angeles, just a square mile of the city, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., which will stay in effect until 6 a.

The curfew affecting the Civic Center, Chinatown, Little Tokyo and other nearby communities had been in effect nightly from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Bass cited “successful crime prevention and suppression efforts” as the reason for the shift in the curfew’s start time.

Mayor Karen Bass reduced the hours that a nightly curfew in downtown Los Angeles is in effect on Monday, allowing struggling businesses to remain open later into the evening.