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Originally Posted by all of the trash
I would rather the westside urbanize than trying to turn DTLA into the westside. I'm perfectly okay with DTLA's growth as a mid-level hipster hood of urban pioneers, and the catalyst for LA's transit infrastructure. There's no need to make it BH. I think we do a disservice to LAs potential charms by aiming too high or too misguidedly. But thats just me
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I disagree. I think it's important to provide executive level housing, which provides an added incentive for corporate high-level executives to move their companies to Downtown LA because it gives them options for housing as well. It's a KNOWN FACT that many companies that are based on the Westside or Orange County are there because their CEOs live in the proximity and want to get to work faster. But they don't realize that most of their employees don't have access to those hard-to-reach areas because there's no transit options.
Downtown LA absolutely needs some more higher end condos like The Century or Californian or Carlyle to attract not only wealthier buyers, but also attract more investments both regionally, nationally, and even internationally. Having it reserved
exclusively for "mid-level hipsters" won't do it any good in the long term. Downtown LA has the MOST transit options ANYWHERE on the West Coast (not even SF has MORE lines funneling into their financial district than DTLA if I'm not mistaken). It would behoove DTLA to have a wide variety of housing options from affordable to luxury high end. The infrastructure is there and expanding, it's generating/creating the demand to make that infrastructure relevant.
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