LOS ANGELES | Downtown Project Rundown 6.0

[Zapatan]

Originally Posted by DTLA Worker

Any other projects to be excited about.

Not sure the status but Mitsui may be the most likely 500+ footer downtown.

The Arts District project is still in the works IIRC.

BLOC Tower is still a potential and maybe Mack Real Estate's 6-700 footers. 1045 South Olive, the tallest of them all hasn't officially been cancelled either.


I hope to see some rise next cycle.

[scania]

Originally Posted by DTLA Worker

I'm shocked that they are 95% leased for the residential units. As someone that works two blocks from there, it almost feels vacant. There is very little foot traffic around The Grand. You would think that there would be a lot more "life" around there if the hotel is doing well and the residential part is essentially filled.

Taha. I call straight bull. I just read all of your posts. You are simply a troll. Probably one that’s also another name on here. Statistics show that there is more foot traffic in DTLA. There’s only two small sections where foot traffic is not pre-Covid. But DTLA as a whole is far more foot traffic and residents now. Clearly you don’t work in DTLA.

[caligrad]

Every time my friends and I visit downtown for the bars or STAPLES center to see a show or game, the general consensus between is "Downtown has so much potential".

There should be cranes on every block from the Fig Corridor to the River, the vision is there, everyone can see it, but unfortunately with the current state of things, we are stuck in a doom loop, at least until 2027.

[DTLA Worker]

Originally Posted by scania

Taha. I call straight bull. I just read all of your posts. You are simply a troll. Probably one that’s also another name on here. Statistics show that there is more foot traffic in DTLA. There’s only two small sections where foot traffic is not pre-Covid. But DTLA as a whole is far more foot traffic and residents now. Clearly you don’t work in DTLA.

What are you talking about? I'm not a troll. I'm being honest, there is not the kind of foot traffic in the area that you would expect if that place was as full as reported. Didn't mean to make you mad with my comment.

[Blesha13]

Originally Posted by DTLA Worker

What are you talking about? I'm not a troll. I'm being honest, there is not the kind of foot traffic in the area that you would expect if that place was as full as reported. Didn't mean to make you mad with my comment.

I totally understand you though. In comparison to other pockets of DTLA (South Park being a prime example) Bunker Hill has the least foot traffic.

[craigs]

I walk to lunch from Temple along Grand to California Plaza a couple of times a week. There are lots of office workers and tourists walking along Grand at lunchtime, and sometimes, there are a dozen or more food trucks in just a few blocks. "The Grand" is not filled up yet, that is true and it sucks. But Grand Avenue is a busy and interesting thoroughfare at rush hours and lunchtimes. You know, just like major streets in every other downtown I have ever worked in before (Boston, San Francisco, etc.).

[dktshb]

Originally Posted by DTLA Worker

I'm shocked that they are 95% leased for the residential units. As someone that works two blocks from there, it almost feels vacant. There is very little foot traffic around The Grand. You would think that there would be a lot more "life" around there if the hotel is doing well and the residential part is essentially filled.

Are these rental units? I went to the Broad a few weeks ago on a Saturday and yeah, it was completely dead at that complex. Not one person over there when I went and checked it out. With a successful hotel and restaurant and residential I thought I would see at least one person. I used to see more people on that sidewalk when it was the parking lot for the Courthouse. I assumed that maybe they were condo's and purchased by absentee owners.

[pwright1]

Originally Posted by craigs

I walk to lunch from Temple along Grand to California Plaza a couple of times a week. There are lots of office workers and tourists walking along Grand at lunchtime, and sometimes, there are a dozen or more food trucks in just a few blocks. "The Grand" is not filled up yet, that is true and it sucks. But Grand Avenue is a busy and interesting thoroughfare at rush hours and lunchtimes. You know, just like major streets in every other downtown I have ever worked in before (Boston, San Francisco, etc.).

The Grand apartments are 95% leased.

[citywatch]

Originally Posted by dktshb

Are these rental units? I went to the Broad a few weeks ago on a Saturday and yeah, it was completely dead at that complex. Not one person over there when I went and checked it out. With a successful hotel and restaurant and residential I thought I would see at least one person. I used to see more people on that sidewalk when it was the parking lot for the Courthouse. I assumed that maybe they were condo's and purchased by absentee owners.

That parking lot was there since the 1960s....it always drove me crazy. It symbolized too much land in dtla was valued more for parking cars than better things.....although I guess if ppl paid property owners for a space for their car, that was something.

Ppl in apts & hotels by themselves don't necessarily generate alot of foot traffic. Devlprs for decades haven't realized how complicated it is to make retail work. The Bonaventure hotel when it was built over 40 yrs ago included a lot of stores....they've been largely vacant ever since then. A very fancy mall in that city to the north known for fog & cable cars in just the past 5 yrs has become the same way.

Now there's online shopping. Ppl ever since Covid have also gotten out of the habit of going out more than they used to. Plus today's urban areas like dtla are being challenged because of issues of mental health.....that's evident on city sidewalks & elsewhere, internet included.

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[scania]

Originally Posted by dktshb

Are these rental units? I went to the Broad a few weeks ago on a Saturday and yeah, it was completely dead at that complex. Not one person over there when I went and checked it out. With a successful hotel and restaurant and residential I thought I would see at least one person. I used to see more people on that sidewalk when it was the parking lot for the Courthouse. I assumed that maybe they were condo's and purchased by absentee owners.

Be it NYC, SF, etc…these type areas are more less events oriented as far as pedestrian foot traffic. I was there a month or two ago for Alvin Ailey, and the scene was incredible just as it is with other events and sometimes double events going on at the different venues. This isn’t anything new for the past 20 plus years. It amazes me on this page how some seem clueless on certain topics. I feel like you don’t have to live in a big city/or work in a big city to understand this…just like most financial districts or dead after 6pm. It’s been that way for decades, matter if it’s Chicago, NYC, etc.

[craigs]

Originally Posted by pwright1

The Grand apartments are 95% leased.

I was referring to the empty commercial spaces, not the residential units.

[citywatch]

they switched out 2 rows of palms for another type of tree...


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btw, the apple store in the old Tower Theater & another newer store across the street was wiped out 2 days ago . The owners must know that would happen....not sure whether their insurance covers such a loss, but major stealing must affect their premium. I hope sales are good enough to make them want to clean up & fully committed to staying. But the macys in dtla....last major dept store in dtla....closed up a few months ago. A forumer a few yrs ago said he'd been told macys dtla had good sales volume....not sure whether that was totally accurate. If it was, things can change very quickly.

Lots of stores in certain major cities have been closing....it's really bad in that city over 300 miles north of LA.

However, the former 7-11 in the Coulter Mandell bldg at 7th St & Olive was replaced not long ago by a furnishings store.

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[craigs]

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art rises in Exposition Park, its rooftop clad with solar panels and gardens, the skyline of downtown Los Angeles rising behind it. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Originally Posted by craigs

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art rises in Exposition Park, its rooftop clad with solar panels and gardens, the skyline of downtown Los Angeles rising behind it. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

That museum looks incredible, what a huge bright spot among what seems like an otherwise languishing construction period. Let's hope it spurs further development.

[SoCalKid]

What an incredible gift to our city. It's hilarious and mind boggling to me that we got this museum only because the politicians in both SF and Chicago had such severe cases of NIMBY brain worms that they preferred a surface parking lot to an iconic cultural institution

Their loss, our win! I predict this will be the biggest attraction in terms of foot traffic of all of LA's museums, surpassing the Getty, the Science Center, the Broad, and LACMA. Expo Park will really now be one of the best cultural destinations in the US.

[craigs]

Olympic + Hill looks even taller than I thought it would:



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[citywatch]

Progress on The Colburn Center. 06/27/25


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[BrandonJXN]

Originally Posted by craigs

Olympic + Hill looks even taller than I thought it would:



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I can actually see my old apartment building on Union Drive.

[38 Geary]

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