Speaking of cherit, I don't want land collecting property owners in dtla & apathetic LA city govnt to undermine signs of promise like this...
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There's one bldg owner on Broadway from australia who has controlled the roxie theater for decades. He has allowed that bldg to rot away for yrs. Absentee owners...or slumlords...are the worst.
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https://afterthefinalcurtain.net/201...los-angeles-ca
Here's a place with supertalls & no dtla type deadzones....
https://youtu.be/8XviV46yk_o
But that doesn't mean I'd rather be there then a place that's closer to dtla. This street...which the guy in NYC mentions at the start of his vid....in comparison has mainly short 1 to 2 floor bldgs, but it competes with dtla for ppl's time, dollars & attention....even more so when the Purple Line opens a stop in Beverly hills.
https://youtu.be/vId82S72qpc
btw, I've just found out that this bldg on Rodeo Dr was designed by Frank Lloyd wright....not the son, but by Frank....I know this is a dtla thread, but that aspect of a street several miles to the west of dtla I've never known about before, so I thought it would be ok to slot an image of it here...
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I've read about how certain ppl from the northeast, such as around NYC, are relocating to the southeast, around Miami Bch. Taxes, govnt, homelessness & quakes notwithstanding, I think LA is a better blend of the two type of places. If devlprs in dtla can keep eliminating the gaps of its past, then LA will have a bit more of the best of both worlds.
I watched a vid from 2021 of the upscale bal harbor area of miami...that & Worth Ave in Palm bch (over 70 miles north of Miami) are Fla's version of Rodeo...& the person said certain apts near Bal Harbor have rents starting around $1,700. Way different economics...The economics of nyc are putting pressure on areas like Madison Ave, which I read was seeing more retail vacancies even before covid hit. But think of all the vacant space that has existed in dtla for over 50 yrs...like the floors in many of the bldgs along Broadway or Spring St. There's still the vacant Garfield bldg across from Shake Shake near 8th at Hill St. So devlprs in dtla continue to need to fill in the gaps.
This is from 13 yrs ago, before the nearby Commercial exchange bldg had been converted to the freehand hotel. Back then, 2 major properties on that short strech of 8th St were abandoned. That's why dtla in the not distant past was taking on the vibe of a rust belt city. But over a decade later, & the ppl checking out the Garfield back in 2009 apparently didn't bite.
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Always good to remember that no center of a major urban area in the world was as affected by as much grit & decline as dtla was, particularly areas like broadway, Spring St & skid row. So it's a good test to see how far down a city will go before it can revive itself. iow, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. Don't take good things for granted.
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Certain cities in the US have built more tall bldgs over the past 10 yrs, places like, as mentioned above, Miami Bch. But while a Miami or Atlanta doesn't have the grit & grime that dtla has, such towns also don't have as much an older layer to build upon...properties like the Garfield. Things like that are what make dtla more interesting to me.
When I watch a variety of vids like these, I better understand how dtla is just one piece of the puzzle...LA works as a combination of multiple parts...in the past, dtla was lagging among those parts. Now it's adding more balance to the overall picture. It has long needed to pull more of its fair share of Socal's weight, which it's starting to do.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JSOCAL1/videos
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