[ByTheBay]

I'd like to add that I don't think it's fair to judge DTLA as a "new" neighborhood because if it was people would be all over it. People like new and shiny and that's why a lot of people have flocked to the suburbs, Irvine is new, DTLA is not. In fact DTLA was the first "it" neighborhood in all of SoCal way before any hills were named Beverly. The problem is that it was abandoned, and just like with anything abandoned and neglected, it needs rehabilitation. People avoid DTLA not because it's new, but because it's old...trying to rebuild something is much more difficult than building it from scratch. Like I said, LA's urban fabric and core was tied into a knot, and the process you are seeing right now is the untying of that knot. Ever had a knot so jumbled that you had to untie it one thread at a time? Yeah, kinda like that. But DTLA has the "bones" for it, it was once the center of activity for the entire region and there's no reason why it can't eventually function as the regions main hub, that's what makes DTLA's potential that much more attractive.