LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 4.0

[LosAngelesBeauty]

Originally Posted by Vangelist

So now Helen Mirren is being used as some sort of litmus test of what downtown should attract as we wish the homeless would just vanish elsewhere, inconvenient as they are to our neighborhood walks? This thread never stops. I love the perpetual conscious and otherwise classist statements!

Speaking of people walking, the art walk last night, just from observing it on a street level as I went across the street to eat something, seemed really dead - especially from its peak crowds in oh, 2008-2009. I think it was already starting to wane last year with the decision to try and make it quarterly, and the dead baby freak accident-incident killed off whatever was left of its status as a monthly event. Few local artists actually made money from it, and it's mostly a street festival thing now that restaurant owners exploit. Without the food trucks everywhere it almost looked like just another night in the city which is saying something positive actually: you don't need a monthly "event" to see people walking the streets of the Old Bank District. At this point in downtown's redevelopment, every night in this area of town is filled with pedestrians and patrons of local businesses, and the weekends are the busiest. The art walk served its purpose, and I'm not sure if it's even needed anymore; it was still somewhat depressing to see how few people were milling around compared to years past. I guess that era, exciting as it was to see people flock to and rediscover the city center, is now over

I wish the Historic Core had a movie theater larger than the Downtown Independent; I'm still missing the Laemmle on Fig. The Regal only serves one corner of downtown, with one type of film (commercially big) for one type of audience; the DI features really small pictures. We're missing that venue that features the medium-sized releases

One of those parking lots, especially at 4th and Spring, could be turned into a 4-screen Laemmle theater with possible office/hotel on top of it...that would be nice...