Posted Aug 10, 2013, 8:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Santa Monica / New York City
Posts: 3,228
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Originally Posted by HunterK
The movie helped the park a lot, just searching the #DTLA hashtag on Instagram brings up hundreds of pics of the bench with the plaque on it. Downtown in general is viewed as cool, hip, romantic, from the outside. Yet when you get here it's filthy and filled with homeless - or worse. That's just the way Downtown is. It was a really great park, it pains a lot of us residents to see them close a perfectly good park to make way for development when there are dozens of surface lots or 1-story shitboxes that should be developed upon first.
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I believe they said that the park is planned to remain a park, and was just closed until the plot of land was sold.
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