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Originally Posted by pesto
Even SM, Beverly Center and Westwood are not filled with Prada and Fred; they are comforable with Barnes & Noble, Nordstrom and Anthropologie.
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Wrong. Santa Monica is actually filled with Fred, and sort-of Prada (Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Bloomingdales) and Beverly Center actually has a real deal Prada. Every one of the major districts in L.A. (Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica) has their own major shopping street. For Santa Monica, there is 3rd Street. Beverly Hills has Rodeo. Hollywood has the strip. Downtown has no major shopping street. Yes, some people would say that Broadway is that street, but I mean a street that people would want to buy something on. And by people, I mean the people who live on the Westside. The surest sign that an area has reached an agreeable point in the gentrification process is when an upper-middle class person from the Westside comes over, looks around, and say, "Hey, look at that, this area is actually pretty nice). DTLA is getting there, but right now all I think that my hypothetical westsider would think is, "Hey, look at that, this are COULD be pretty nice". Granted, I am an upper-middle class Westsider, and I like downtown a lot, but I am a strange fish when it comes to those things.
Anyways, I am getting really off track from what I came over to say.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/03/but_whats_coming_big_lot_near_staples_in_contract.php
One of the largest deadzones this side of the future L.A. Central development has been sold!
I know not what is going to go there, but I hope it is something tall and not faux-Mediterranean(Palmer, I'm looking at you). The sellers were the South Group, the people who did the (IMO) very nice collection of buildings next to the AT&T Center (Evo, Elleven, and Luma). They won't say who bought the plot of land, or what is was sold for, but it was listed at 30 mil.
This is what was originally going in that plot of land during the Boom Days. I personally liked the old design, and hope that we will get something similar.
Oh, and does comparing DT with Beverly Hills count as City vs. City?
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