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Originally Posted by caligrad
Another thing to remember is that LAs Downtown Office space is still very much so stuck in the 90s with its floor plans, meanwhile newer west side, culver city, and other office space is getting snatched up left and right. The floor plans just make more sense for what corporations want to do these days. Big, open, bright and inclusive. Not cubicles.
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partly true, but office space has been leased up faster & to higher capacity than the space in dtla has been for over 25 yrs. Some of that is due to more ppl who decide where their offices are located & know where more of their employees live tend to prefer areas miles west of dtla...west of la cienega.
a bit of change more recently with warner music moving from burbank to the arts dist in dtla....but that has been the exception to the rule.
the main problem is dtla has been surrounded by traditionally marginal hoods....some of them having been aimed at lower income ppl for over 90 yrs. Then the flight to the burbs made the lack of competitiveness of dtla even worse. some of that was starting to change when urbanism became more popular over the past 5-10 yrs....but covid-19 has possibly pushed that back several yrs, maybe even a few decades.
Lots of cities are entering uncharted waters right now, all over the US & world. however, dtla sunk about as far as any city could fall from around the 1950s, 1960s until more recently, yet it somehow managed to reinvent itself starting mainly during the past 10 yrs. But the national & world lockdown may end up pushing dt back to the future.