the article on the tech industry in LA & the link to the NYT article on the coffee shop in GCM are very interesting. I appreciate this thread when it gives a better sense of what's going on in dt by providing info or pics that I otherwise wouldn't come across on my own.
the mystery of what's going on with the parking lot on 9th St between Hill & olive continues, & mojeda's pic of it adds to the mystery. I browsed through a list of all the projs that are supposed to break ground around now, & the closest I can come up with is another apt bldg proposed for the SW corner of Olympic & Olive, right next door to another apt proj that started construction about 2 months ago. But nothing regarding 9th/hill/olive.
Is the parking lot being sealed off as a staging area for some other nearby devlpt? If so, does the owner feel that requires the site be surrounded by green fencing? Is that to partially block view of equipment & material to help prevent theft or vandalism?
very ironic too when a site a few blocks away, where the palmer apt bldg on broadway is supposed to go up & which everyone expected would be underway several wks ago, remains untouched. Even more so since Palmer has a relatively fast track record of starting & completing his devlpt. Maybe work on his Davinci apt bldg on Temple st next to the Harbor fwy & all the other projs now underway in dtla are slowing down the ability of devlprs like him to get contractors & workers?
When dtladenizen reports that new stores like zara aren't performing up to snuff....due in part to dtla's 24/7 population still not being large as it needs to be....still not as crowded as what's found in thriving downtowns elsewhere....& the hood not exactly having millions of women shoppers on any given day carrying plenty of credit cards....I'm not too worried about grand central mkt eventually becoming overly gentrified, at least not for several more yrs, if even then.
I admit that when I see images like what's shown in this vid, I become almost as anxious as those forumers who are very unhappy when new devlpt isn't taller. the half way point of this vid shot very recently does contain the clearest views of dt as seen from the south. the AT&T bldg still looks rather lonely way off to the east side of dt, although it's not as bad as it was before the evo, luma & elleven towers were built....but they're still kind of short compared with the really tall bldgs to the west.
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