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Originally Posted by LosAngelesBeauty
That's why I get furious when I hear ANYONE say "It'll block my views" because they are looking at it from such a selfish standpoint. YET, they probably LOVE their last trip to Manhattan because it was filled with people on the streets and for the skyscraper fanatic, high-rises everywhere. Well kids, those skyscrapers are all "blocking" each other's views! Midtown Manhattan anyone? Hong Kong anyone? Vancouver anyone? Sao Paulo anyone?
What do they all have in common? Enough density to create a much more interesting pedestrian environment that fuels the kind of innovative retail that makes walking such a pleasant experience. TRY WALKING in Downtown LA and tell me how "pleasant" it is. It is FAR from being pleasant at this time because there are only PATCHES/islands of retail that FAIL miserably to creating the kind of powerful environment that even Old Town Pasadena now has.
The limited retail we do have in Downtown LA is sadly broken up by desert-like expanses of surface asphalt parking lots. The kind of selfishness and parochial views many developers have when it comes to PARKING is incredible. Many developers are deathly afraid that another tower will be built next to them because it'll take away parking for their retail! What they FAIL to realize in their shortsightedness is that more towers equal more people which is how places like Manhattan somehow have flagship retail that pull-off some of the highest grossing sales in their respective chains, such as Whole Foods in Time Warner Center...all without having parking! HOW THE FUCK DO THEY DO THAT? LOL Well kids, once again, it's called LOTSA density and the mass transit that takes them there.
LA has just got it all wrong and it's excerbated by idiots who want nothing more than a "view" from their freakin' "lofts."
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First of all, I call it a Luxury Apt not a freakin' loft. Second, I paid 20-30K more for this view versus that view, this floor verses that floor, This building versus that building. I think that gives me the right to admire are complain about the view as much as you. Who am I going to complain to anyway? It's the builder that refurbed this bldg that is building all the buildings around me anyway. Selfish? How do you think I got here? I flipped a few houses in suburbia, the last one a 5 bedroom on the golf course for just me and my wife, what in the hell did we need four guest rooms for? I jumped out of that market a year ago to come downtown and cash in (while I enjoy the view) Actually, it turns out I kind of like it downtown and might stay a while. Personally, I like when a building is being built in front of me, I think of each one as another 20-30K of equity. I argue the right to complain about views for my wife who loves our building but despises any new buildings being built in front of us (blocking our view).
