LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 4.0

[Mojeda101]

Originally Posted by citywatch

as usual, you're doing the heavy lifting & helping keep this thread alive. for some reason you have a knack for capturing glimpses of less prominent parts of dt that various other forumers through the yrs have ignored or never got around to taking shots of....perhaps cuz it takes too much patience & leg work. for example, before you started posting your pics to this thread several months ago, no one else ever made an effort to snap the outside of the clark hotel or cliftons, well after its old facade from the 1950s or 60s was torn down.

I'm guilty of such actions. I never found interest in such buildings but when I saw the enthusiasm of the other posters in regards to the conversion projects, I was hooked. I didn't get a chance to do it last trip due to time constraints, but I'll be sure to go now that I know better parking lots to go to. I used to spend up to 18 dollars for parking due to how much time I spent in downtown. Once arrived at 8 AM, and stayed until 11 PM. Time flies when you are in Downtown. I promise to take a good look at the historic projects next time. I'm really looking forward for the Iphone 5s. Rumored to have a 13MP Camera, great improvement!

In the summer time I'll be there every other day. Hopefully by then, things such as the Streetcar, and the Barry Shy tower will be well underway and hopefully a project or two will have been revived(rooting on Park Fifth, Park Tower, and LA Central).

[citywatch]

Originally Posted by Mojeda101

I didn't get a chance to do it last trip due to time constraints, but I'll be sure to go now that I know better parking lots to go to. I used to spend up to 18 dollars for parking due to how much time I spent in downtown. Once arrived at 8 AM, and stayed until 11 PM. Time flies when you are in Downtown.

mojeda101, it's tougher to get a good sense of dt when one is not there, either as a resident or employee. I know when I've visited the hood, & start thinking of the locations where I'd want to take a photo...or spots where I wish someone would snap a shot...I feel quite overwhelmed & distracted by actually being there. There are so many nooks & crannies throughout the hood....some good, some bad, some quite unexpected.....that it makes my head spin.

I also get nervous about the possibility of having a strange run in with a homeless person who catches me off guard, or security patrols yelling at the passer by for violating private property.....or intruding on ppl's privacy if they're perhaps in a restaurant or entering or exiting a store or office. That's why your pics, & pics from other forumers like hunterk, are much appreciated. And with all the exciting changes taking place right now, & how they'll be evolving over the next few yrs, there can never be too many ppl taking photos in dtla.

In terms of the pace of change, I wonder why so many new projs, like the marriott hotel, are being built of concrete instead of steel. It seems that method is slower.....that a new bldg will rise more slowly.....when concrete is being poured than when steel beams are being framed. I also think of concrete as being somehow more vulnerable in an earthquake. I wonder what method will be used on the apt towers at 8th & hope & 9th & olive? whatever occurs there, I hope those projs move faster than the courtyard hotel. It does seem to be going up slower than I would have assumed a few months ago.