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Originally Posted by Easy
Broadway sucks as it is now. If you're looking for a spot to buy the most inferior quality Chinese products around at the highest prices then Broadway is for you. Keeping these stores open is actually a disservice to the community, no matter what race or ethnicity they are. People think that they are getting a good deal, but they are really paying for junk. That's why the stores can afford to pay so much in rent. They're ripping off their customers.
I've said it before but if a WalMart or a Target opens within a mile of Broadway you watch how fast business will drop. Some people think that they are doing the immigrant community a favor by limiting their choices, but the reality is that immigrants want and deserve better than what they are getting. Given the choice they would shop elsewhere. Look at Huntington Park and how that's taken off. And they have a variety of stores. Lots of clothes stores, but not just the cheap ones like you see on Broadway. Plus they have restaurants, furniture, and all of the other types of stuff that Broadway lacks.
And many of the people that shop Broadway DO COME from that general area. Get on a MTA or DOT bus and see how many people get on/off within 2 miles of Broadway.
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Broadway does not suck, the neglect and segregated shopping in the area sucks. And what does the value of merchandise have to do with being compassionate towards the businesses and community the area caters to? Too many of you people think that some boner for wealth should trump or at least ignore any concern for the community that makes up 2/3rds of central LA and the bulk of our working force, you know what, go kiss a gucci bag and expect another 1992 riot on your hands.
So you know easy, the "hood" that Broadway is in is not 2 miles out, that is the central city, which includes boyle heights, south LA and westlake. The vast bulk of swap meet patronage is by people waiting for busses/transfers as well as ex bus riders taking their 1st generation family to the city to shop. Either way semantic arguments do not matter, Broadway obviously has a place in the working class community of LA (which is why it is vibrant and full of latinos and has not been packed with rich white kids since WW2, duh!) and that SHOULD be integrated with the emerging wealthier DTLA, but it is not, and THAT sucks.
Also, citywatch, you make no sense still. is this another telephone pole OCD thing? I believe I noted that it would have been nice for the LA civic establishment to have invested in the area decades earlier so that there would be more diversity in retail (note this too Easy), please remember this! Nobody wants this area to remain a swapmeet dump, it would be nice to see some social equity beyond some elitist-loving stargazed bullshit that is occurring right now, DTLA boosters included.
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