The unfinished oceanwide proj on Fig is a daily reminder that the economy & financing can fall apart at any moment....& oceanwide occurred
before Covid hit the world too. Although what's going on in certain other cities, which have a booming new highrise devlpt scene, means dtla has comparatively less demand or less absorption?
Meanwhile, yrs ago this used to be a water fountain in the plaza of what originally was the New Otani hotel. I read that the underground piping no longer works & the former owner and now the bldg's current operator, the hilton doubletree, have never bothered fixing it.
https://youtu.be/EitaiLU2d0E?t=760
the nearby etco Lotus apt bldg has been under construction for over 4 yrs! This image is from
2018:
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la.urbanize.city
When I see the tagging on the upper part of the rear wall of the brick bldg fronting on 1st St....back in 2018 & still today in 2022....I have to ask, how the heck do taggers do that...do they use scaffolding? But at least the concrete barricades for the restaurants on 1st st in little tokyo appear to have been painted over....I believe they were heavily tagged not too long ago. Speaking of graffiti, the loft proj east of the tower theater had its 3rd level tagged awhile ago, which forced the owner to spend some money on renting a cherry picker crane & getting workers to clean the wall.
Arthur McLin III/facebook townsquare dtla
^ The person posting that pic to facebook says:
Graffiti is being removed. Painstaking job. They've been at it all week.
Last wk I drove by the little tokyo station of the regional connector line & was surprised at how much work still needs to be done....same thing with the station west of the broad museum.
https://youtu.be/EitaiLU2d0E?t=1462
What's required in the upgrading of dtla/LA? Patience, lots of patience.