^ thanks for the pics of the 2 apt towers going up near 8th & fig....the NE corner of that intersection...where the mitsui proj is....has long been one of the major gaps of dtla.....I think of all the yrs I'd go by there & think, why is this parking lot still here?
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Originally Posted by Quixote
The majority of the people you are talking about are the very same people who, let’s just say, decided to sow seeds in the wrong places — specifically in the years 1968, 1974, and 1976.
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it would have been hard to bet against them at the time since dt was in pretty poor shape...I still say if dtla had always been in better condition over 70 yrs ago, more like a bigger version of pasadena or santa monica, it wouldn't have gone dowhill so far. I've read complaints that dtla was going to seed as long ago as the early 1900s & certainly by the 1950s.
I watch these vids on fast forward & get a better sense of areas in dt that were parking lots or abandoned bldgs just within the past 5 yrs....like the old herald examiner bldg or the two old bldgs across the street from it that have been converted into hotels....the newer broadway palace apt bldgs were parking lots just a few yrs ago.
la live was another big gap of parking lots....now the parking lot south of the former holiday inn still needs to be filled in & the car wash south of the fig hotel could use some TLC. that entire block still has large open spaces....but look at how even today something like the oceanwide proj sits unfinished & getting rustier by the month....
the owner of the fig hotel who gets ad dollars from renting the south wall of their bldg probably doesn't want to see a highrise go up next to their property....but time for a change!
slowly but surely dtla is getting there.
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