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Originally Posted by Eightball
I'm happy to see Century City is doing well. DTLA is booming with residential, retail and entertainment and the office will eventually improve. A strong metro area/city benefits everyone
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but the fact dtla has had a surplus of office space for over 25 yrs seems to escape the attention of so many ppl...or all those ppl who seem to think the reason a proj like the wilshire grand tower wasn't made taller was due to the whims of the owner. I wish. Too bad it wasn't as simple & easy as that.
dt is still suffering from the hangover of all those yrs & yrs when ppl fled to other hoods....inc century city....& took all their $$ & businesses with them.
one big reason was think of all the yrs & yrs when a major old time bldg like this one, recently shot by hunter....
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Originally Posted by ConstructDTLA
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was no better than this.....
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google street view / ethereal reality
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^ shocking to realize just how rundown that bldg was not all that long ago...& allowed to be that way for over 40 yrs. there was also the long abandoned giannini place bldg on 7th st.....still being renovated at this time by the same owners of the freehand hotel.
Lesson in all this is once a city has been allowed to go downhill quite far & for quite long, it's a difficult road back to recovery. which makes what's now going on even more long overdue & also a great sight.
forumers like constructla have so much ground to cover, there are other images waiting to be captured of the ongoing changes farther to the north...around little tokyo....& farther to the east around the arts dist.