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Originally Posted by HunterK
Great writeup Wilcal - and so true. When you look at the big picture of Downtown LA you start to realize that it will never be one of the great Downtowns of the nation. All this development is nice, but in the end Downtown will be more of a neighborhood - and less of a true downtown. Thats just the way LA is, I'm not being negative or positive about it.
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Since I live in downtown I tend to think of downtown as "the city" in a sense and I want all that being in the city brings. But you're right in that in LA downtown is just another neighborhood, at least for right now. Downtown does have a lot of what I think is required to be called a city. World-class art, music, civic life, restaurants, pro sports (even though I'm not a sports fan), transit. It's developing as the core of LA but it has a long way to go and just due to the sheer size and nature of LA with multiple cores it will probably never be the epicenter. But I think that's ok. We need a lot more density, a lot more turnover some of the old school businesses, more retail, and the homeless situation needs to be dealt with in a serious way. It's a 20 year proposition I think.
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