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Originally Posted by Mojeda101
...but the truth hurts.
Some — attacked the Rialto marquee last night. Seriously?
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the vandalized section of the sign makes me think of a situation where a parent has to tell her child who keeps breaking things: this is why we can't have nice things.
I hope the sales volume of urban outfitters store on broadway has been quite good, since the added expense of fixing things like their newly renovated neon sign probably wasn't penciled into the business plan.
the large amt of tagging on the somewhat new construction barricade several blocks away at 9th & Hope & the nearby west facing wall of the embassy bldg is another reminder that '—' do caravan into dt on a regular basis & cause mischief.
I think a bigger case of the 'truth hurts' is that too much of dt at any given hour of the day can be overly quiet. That's something I've noticed....& been bothered by.....during so many of the times I've visited the hood. So a tell tell sign to me that the hood is lacking a certain oomph....a certain sense of urbanism.....isn't due to its old & new bldgs not being taller, but due to it still not having have enough ppl in it, both as workers but also as residents.
this recent youtube video captures several glimpses of one of the more ppl friendly sections of dtla, little tokyo. Yet in spite of that....& as is true of many of the other vids of dt shot by the same person....it shows how non hustling & bustling the streets...or sidewalks....of dt can be. that's why I'm always thinking not so much about the height of new projs, or their architectural design, but also if there are enough of them to bring in alot more ppl into dtla 24/7.
btw, the lovely colors of the TCA apt bldg at 2nd & LA sts can be seen in this youtube video around :55. Good thing that side will be concealed by the neighboring apt bldg when it goes up in the next several months.
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another reason why all the current & any new apt projs in dtla had better fill up quickly....& why all the fwys around dt are way more congested than they'd otherwise be & would be less so if more ppl lived in dt.....is due to things like......
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More than two-thirds of people who work for the city of Los Angeles live somewhere else, a Los Angeles Times analysis suggests. Out-of-towners are especially common among those charged with keeping Angelenos safe from crime and fire. Only 21% of Police Department employees live in Los Angeles, and 16% of Fire Department workers call the city home, according to the analysis of city data showing where workers receive their paychecks.
Experts say the high numbers point to forces that continue to push people out of the city, including pricey housing and poor impressions of the public schools. Workers who make more money are much more likely to live in Los Angeles than those with lower incomes, the analysis shows. Nearly 48% of the highest-paid employees live in the city, compared with 20% of the lowest-paid.
Mary Kamuck, who has worked for the city for nearly three decades, makes the daily drive from Azusa to her downtown job at the Department of Building and Safety call center — a commute that takes half an hour early in the morning and up to two hours when she returns home in the afternoon. When the single mother first looked for a home where she could raise her two sons, she couldn't afford L.A., she said — and she doubts she could do so even now.
"I paid $132,500 for my house," she said. "I couldn't find anything like that."
The daily employee exodus adds to traffic and pulls money out of the city when paychecks are spent somewhere else, said Los Angeles Councilman Bernard C. Parks.
Many...out-of-town L.A. employees are in close cities such as Long Beach, Inglewood and Palmdale, with nearly 4 out of 5 city employees living somewhere in Los Angeles County. And one-fifth of full-time city employees live in the Inland Empire or Orange or Ventura counties.
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