LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 3.0

[spoonman]

All these comments bashing Gaslamp show that you are all in denial about how much DTLA sucks ass... Those "plastic" buildings in the Gaslamp are older than almost all of the structures in DTLA. Gaslamp was a former red-light district 20 years ago and has slowly evolved since. It didn't just get cleaned up last week by some city mandate that called for a street with lots of restaurants. There are many other businesses other than restaurants in the Gaslamp, but the reason you don't see more offices there is because the building height limit (12 floors roughly) in the Gaslamp makes office construction less profitable. For those of you that don't know, the Gaslamp is only made of of 2-3 streets that span for a couple blocks.