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Originally Posted by blackcat23
The NFL has been pretty adamant about their preference for Chavez Ravine for a while, so this isn't that surprising.
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well, that pretty much guarantees another delay, within a delay, within a delay.
change for the better in dt sometimes moves at the speed of a turtle.
One recent example being the original timeline of the grand wilshire proj, which was pushed forward by a few yrs. Then there's the clark hotel, mentioned by brudy. That proj is taking so long to reach the completion stage, something has to be very wrong with it...or its owners. I don't know how they can hope to open the clark as a hotel....at least one that's not as
as the cecil on main st....if they can't even cover the expense of something as important as cleaning up the outside of their bldg. something very strange is going on there.
this vid about broadway was filmed almost 20....20!....yrs ago, back around august 1994. If we were discussing the future of broadway back then....did ssp.com exist in 94?....would we have hoped that by 2013 many of the
swapmeets & other debris along the street would finally have vanished?
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broadway started to go downhill when many of its first group of shoppers abandoned it for the burbs. Now the one way to revive it yrs & yrs later is if the 2nd wave of shoppers also abandons the street. That will encourage the swapmeets to follow their customers to wherever they end up & hopefully something better, or at least less shoddy, will replace them.
But when this was shot, the large crowds of ppl still meant $$ could be made on broadway, even if most of the stores looked like
but there's hope 19 yrs later. the corner of 8th & broadway, which is caught on tape at the opening of the vid, still shows the chapman bldg in a rundown, swapmeetized condition. It's since been converted to lofts & cleaned up. TG for small miracles!
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The vid also shows the outside of the orpheum theater well before it too....or its upper levels....had been cleaned up & converted to housing, well before new businesses like the umami restaurant had opened. so light finally.....finally....is peeking through at the end of the long dark tunnel.
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