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Originally Posted by LA/OCman
I see a lot of European tourists walking near City Hall, the LAPD HQ and the Caltrans building. interestingly I see a lot on the Red Line. You see working class people, students and white Europeans taking the Red Line. Sadly you do not see many professionals unless they are headed to Union Station to catch the Metrolink to the burbs. I think it will change with the Expo Line but it seems like when young professionals take the train it is like they are doing it for the first time and act like it is some big adventure.
Yesterday I was on 7th and a European couple asked for directions to the Mayfair Hotel on 7th... I pointed out they had to walk over the 110 and head west. We need more affordable hotels in Central Downtown. Why don't more developers convert some of these historic and empty buildings into "Best Western" type hotels like you see in other cities? There is such a market here. Now if only the City would spend money on sidewalks, landscaping, fountains, flowers and clean restrooms.
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Agreed. The hotel scene is still much too much either high-end or welfare. By contast, European cities, NY and SF, etc., have large numbers of modest, well-maintained smaller hotels in the center of town that are not ridiculous in price. The good news is that these follow automatically when the developers see the demand. And I think that will come with the Broad, in-fill, etc., that is going on. Remains to be seen if they are the big chains or the trendy smaller places now appearing on the westside and all over NY.
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