Posted Jan 15, 2011, 9:26 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Originally Posted by LosAngelesBeauty
I was in the Historic Core tonight and it was very lively! It never ceases to amaze me how many people are now walking the streets at night when I remember SPECIFICALLY just back in 2006, the streets were sparse at best and usually closer to empty.
I remember how "lonely" I felt when I used to walk from the Pegasus to Blossom to eat a hot bowl of Pho! I was even almost mugged at 4th/Broadway.
I think we are about 2 years away from really seeing some MAJOR activity along Broadway as demand for more restaurants/retail begin to finally spill over from Spring St.
AND, obviously nothing would make me happier than to see the Jewelry District move further south of 7th Street and relinquishing those valuable retail
spaces to higher end boutiques and more restaurants to activate the streets at night. Currently, the Jewelry District is a nasty ghost town at night. If we want to activate Pershing Square, we have to replace the Jewelry District with shopping and dining (like Union Square in SF) and consolidate all those merchants into a brand new "Jewelry Trade Center" perhaps 10-15 stories along Hill St between 7th/8th on that empty parcel.
Illustrated below:
Relocating Jewelry District/Consolidate Merchants
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Why that priece of land, specifically?
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