LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[Lalaland]

Originally Posted by JerellO

What ever happened to the big gay ice cream store?? :/

I hope they didn't get cold feet

[Eightball]

Originally Posted by SimonLA

Do y'all think the retail at the new Olympic buildings will only fill up once all the buildings are occupied?

hopefully so. the retail in the s**tboxes in Little Tokyo seem to be filling in nicely

edit: just went to GCM to grab some bread. The line at the taco place was as long as the one at Eggslut. Overall (as usual) it was incredibly packed. I'm surprised they haven't tried to buy the adjacent buildings to expand it

[timpdx]

Time for a sorta-big DTLA project progress update from this afternoon:

Biggest First:





Metropolis, most impressive in DTLA right now, by sheer size of the project

I will post more pics in the Metropolis thread

(crown parapet going on now, will help cover the big core that some are complaining about)



Gonna need a wider lens....



Oceanwide is delivering...(actually, they need to take delivery on at least 2 cranes going by the bases installed there)







Big Onni Tower



Circa



Carmel Partners Tower, looking good!







Ten50...I smell disappointment with the cladding...





If it walks like a Palmer and quacks like a Palmer...I can smell the stucco already...Broadway Plaza 1



and #2



Herald Examiner



Pico/Olive (can't wait to see the cool facade under all that scaffolding)



Mack Urban



Replacing a parking lot with a parking structure...across the street with a place with over 1000 parking spots



Hope and Pico



The dreadful Broadway/12th



The Bloc, really movin along now





and lastly....OF COURSE!

[King Kill 'em]

Great update timpdx!

Ten50 and Olive/8th seem to be close to topping out!

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Originally Posted by timpdx

Ten50...I smell disappointment with the cladding...



If it walks like a Palmer and quacks like a Palmer...I can smell the stucco already...Broadway Plaza 1

Awesome pictures and update.

I don't know...I like the ten50, looks different at least. Plus you need to give it some time to develop the "outcroppings" or whatever they're called.

And I think those Palmers will make a huge difference on south broadway. Not just in looks, but getting feet on the ground. The non-screaming lunatic variety, the exact type that's needed.

[timpdx]

For the Palmers, I do agree they are great space fillers, it may be that the back side that I photo-ed is the "cheap" side and more effort will be on the Broadway side. I sure hope so. Ten50 isnt done yet, so I hold out hope, but looks really unpromising. Its facade is like a flat sheet of paper, just lifeless. A simple window casing can add so much. And those box cutouts next to the windows look like cheap A/C cutouts like Motel 6 or so something. I counted 20 or 21 floors done.

[Doctorboffin]

I actually am liking Ten50. I think the simple design is a nice break from all the crazy and will mesh well with the weird tumor growth on its side.

[ChelseaFC]

Originally Posted by timpdx

Cops at a donut place? Never...

[caldor120la]

timpdx: thanks for the photo update really uplifting to see the progress being made on so many projects.
side notes: great shot of the men in blue at dunkin.
Often wondered if GCM would consider expanding, looks like space available.
Good to see some spaces filling up in the Arcade building, great location should
be prime, maybe mgt. problem?
also wondered about the big gay ice cream store from time to time.
At one time recently I counted at least 12 buildings downtown(noted in various
articles) hotels to be renovated, or buildings to be converted to hotels has any
one noticed any new work on such projects in your travels around town?
Thanks for the photos everyone always great to see.

[blackcat23]

Aerial footage showcases construction of At Mateo

130,000 square feet of retail, 50,000 square feet of office space and a 540-car garage.

[Wilcal]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Cops at a donut place? Never...

Initially, when I first saw this photo I thought that there must have been a disturbance on this corner. But, upon close examination, I realized that it "all makes sense." It reminds me of a really terrible and very unpolitically correct joke: how can you tell when a cop is dead--really dead? Answer: the doughnut rolls out of his hand. All kidding aside, this corner will be a "hang-out" for cops and probably make it a much safer area as a result.

[King Kill 'em]

Is it just me, or does Dunkin' Donuts just always taste better on the East Coast.

[timpdx]

Originally Posted by King Kill 'em

Is it just me, or does Dunkin' Donuts just always taste better on the East Coast.

Had plenty of Manhattan Dunkin' and its highly overrrated. My brother doesn't do coffee, so when visiting, my morning often starts at the corner Dunkin' Nothing special, 7-11 coffee beats them easily IMO. Donuts are donuts, and LA has solid donut places in spades.

[ozone]

Originally Posted by King Kill 'em

Is it just me, or does Dunkin' Donuts just always taste better on the East Coast.

I don't want to be rude but..who cares? Drunkin Donuts is one of those old awful East Coast coffee shop chains that existed before the West Coast had to show them how to do coffee right. It really hasn't been in the West for very long and I really don't know why they even came out here or how they survive. I guess there's just as many people here who enjoy paying for bitter brown water and diabetes rings.

[King Kill 'em]

Originally Posted by timpdx

Had plenty of Manhattan Dunkin' and its highly overrrated. My brother doesn't do coffee, so when visiting, my morning often starts at the corner Dunkin' Nothing special, 7-11 coffee beats them easily IMO. Donuts are donuts, and LA has solid donut places in spades.

Yeah I don't do coffee either. I was only talking about the donuts. And on the East Coast I only had Dunkin Donuts in Boston and DC if that means anything. The donuts here just taste healthier I would say? Not as much sugar and frosting maybe. That's good for some people but not people like me who can eat anything and never gain weight.

Hope this isn't getting too off topic

[NativeOrange]

Originally Posted by King Kill 'em

Yeah I don't do coffee either. I was only talking about the donuts. And on the East Coast I only had Dunkin Donuts in Boston and DC if that means anything. The donuts here just taste healthier I would say? Not as much sugar and frosting maybe. That's good for some people but not people like me who can eat anything and never gain weight.

Hope this isn't getting too off topic

I've never heard of a donut tasting "healthier" here. Maybe a fancy donut from Urth Caffé? If they even sell those.

There are a bajillion sugary, fattening, frosted up donut shop places all over SoCal.

[JerellO]

Originally Posted by ozone

I don't want to be rude but..who cares? Drunkin Donuts is one of those old awful East Coast coffee shop chains that existed before the West Coast had to show them how to do coffee right. It really hasn't been in the West for very long and I really don't know why they even came out here or how they survive. I guess there's just as many people here who enjoy paying for bitter brown water and diabetes rings.

Well LA does have a lot of ex New Yorkers living there lol. When Dunkin donuts opened here in San Diego it was a bunch of east coasters saying how much they missed it haha I think it's very basic.

[scania]

Originally Posted by King Kill 'em

Is it just me, or does Dunkin' Donuts just always taste better on the East Coast.

Nope, Dunkin just doesn't taste good.

[brudy]

Broadway Palace is going to look like a prison. The horizontal scale (like many other stumpies) is out of whack in a dense urban environment.

[losangelesnative]

Hanover Olympic is now open, rents start from 2,000 for a studio

http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/hanov...23d3458-ed58-11e5-a4d4-43d49205f8bb.html