Quote:
Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan
Also, the Merrit building on 8th and Broadway is for sale now and the owners of the Globe building across the street has notified the ground floor tenants need to vacate asap and apparently some work has started inside the building to convert to a boutique hotel or apartments (ive heard both so not sure which one)
|
what a relief!!!...& not a day too soon!
that a once beautiful bldg like the Merrit has been allowed to be in shambles for so many decades is one of the major tragedies of dtla. that all the horrible swapmeets in the globe bldg have managed to hang on for decades is another disgrace. It's properties like those that have made all the talk about the few nice, newer businesses on broadway hurting for customers even more exasperating.
ladowntownnews.com, Gary Leonard
you-are-here.com
A few of the previous posts are puzzling to me....I don't know what's more of a head scratcher: ppl feeling the warm fuzzies for forgettable, rundown small bldgs like the SRO between the 2 onni towers or judging the eastern columbia bldg.....even more so since its restoration....as so below that of a masterpiece, it could disappear & not be missed.
If dt originally had more properties like the eastern columbia & far fewer, or none, of the small, indistinguishable masonry bldgs like the one on olive st between 8th & 9th, dtla wouldn't have suffered such an image problem going back a looong time. It must be remembered that Dtla once was wall to wall with short SRO type bldgs, perhaps the TCAs or gh palmers of their time...except put together with even lower budgets & generally aimed at even less well off ppl, & today quite vulnerable to earthquakes.....& back then, & extending well through the 1980s, almost no one was shouting hallelujahs for dtla.
• Video Link
• Video Link