[citywatch]

Despite its longstanding reputation for urban sprawl, recent years have seen developers look inward in Los Angeles, which has experienced a residential boom in its urban core. That boom, according to a new study released by Yardi Matrix, ranks as the second most prolific in the entire country over the past decade.

^ Long time in coming, maybe for over 90 yrs. DTLA as recently as the 1990s had only a small pull as a place where ppl in LA would live or want to live. Mainly pensioners or the lower income called dt home in the past. Better income ppl started leaving dt around the early 1900s, & streets like broadway or nicer retailing in dt in general dependent on them started going downhill by the 1940s, 1950s.

Nicer housing after bunker hill's heyday...which lasted from around the late 1800s to 1920s....was limited to this when these apt towers at Fig between 1st & 3rd Sts were built in the late 1960s. Reviving dtla has been a very slow process, but better late than never.



curbedla.com


If this had been in effect yrs ago, dtla would have long punched at LA's weight class instead of below it.

https://youtu.be/q56MtqmT0bI?t=244