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Originally Posted by craigs
A short blurb from today's Los Angeles Times recapping what is happening in Skid Row:
Nonprofit providers are building homeless housing high-rises. The Weingart Center is changing the look and feel of Skid Row with three new homeless housing developments currently under construction. These buildings — 12, 17 and 19 stories — will be among the tallest in the area and house 700 people in studios and one-bedrooms. The first is set to open this spring. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is planning a 216-unit, 15-story building of its own in Skid Row.
A $2-billion project could bring thousands of higher-income residents to Skid Row. Denver-based developers Continuum Partners are proposing a massive $2-billion development on the northeast border of Skid Row next to Little Tokyo and the Arts District. If the City Council approves it, the project will bring 1,500 new homes, 410,000 square feet of office space, a 68-room hotel and retail restaurant space. Gov. Gavin Newsom has endorsed it.
The developer is conspicuously leaving Skid Row out of the marketing for the project, referring to the effort instead as “the New Gateway to DTLA.”
All together, it’s likely that five years from now, Skid Row will look vastly different than it does today. . . .
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Wait, there's 3 buildings u/c in that area right now?
I thought it was 1.
And a 4th is coming? Thats great.
Probably more after this.
Wouldnt that be funny if Skid Row develops its own 15-20 story cluster?
Its badly needed of course, but that would change the area.
Why cant LA rezone that dumb light industrial district to the southeast for more highrises like this? Let Commerce get industrial stuff. Who cares.
Yea, by the time the Olympics comes around, LA might not have to "clean" up Skid Row as much, as these newer buildings will take care of some.