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Originally Posted by citywatch
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quite seriously, the amt of graffiti & the extreme lengths that taggers go to to mark up bldgs in dtla.....which various photos of yours have shown through the months....hints at the number of potential trespassers lurking in any part of dt at any hour, of any day of the wk.
I'm disturbed by the way such ppl continue to get around the barricades of what one would assume are otherwise generally well secured properties like the old may co bldg.
but such a relief to see the blue jeans store finally closed & under renovation! Not a second too soon. One down & many more to follow, hopefully.
btw, caligrad, the unfinished, rusting condo tower on wilshire blvd was there during the first half of the 1980s. So most forumers are too young to remember or probably weren't even born when that eyesore existed. But exist it did. That's why all the projs now underway in dt can never be treated as a totally done deal....at least not until they're fully finished &, better yet, fully opened and fully leased or fully sold out.
that's one reason I'm not quite so indignant as certain forumers are when hunter has expressed a bit of skepticism about what the future may hold for devlpt in dt. |
Citywatch, I couldn't agree with you more about the graffiti problem. It disgusts me. What is puzzling is how the city did not deem the owners' of the Merrit and adjoining buildings to be slumlords and assess them fines. I say that because it is obvious that many of the Broadway property owners have absolutely no pride of community, city, or even ownership. Their goal was to buy at the bottom of the market and make minimal investment. Because of tax advantages they could even profit by not renting their space up to a certain point. Their MO was to wait out the market, hope for incremental improvements (always on someone else's dime), and then sell. Usually to some developer who has greater aspirations for the street as well as downtown in general. In my opinion they were (are still) deadbeats, bloodsuckers, etc..
Also,
I am not too young to remember the rusting hulk on Wilshire. It was truly an eyesore for years. Not only was a story written up in the Los Angles Times but I seem to remember it also made Time or Newsweek. Anyway, all the photos of the sunsets through the rusting skeleton were lovely.
Oh, and concerning the Mitsui Fudosan development (not shown because of the photos size), which in my opinion (as an
armchair architect mind you) is a very handsome building, podium and all. Based upon the concept of vanishing points if one were to draw a line from the parapet of the tower to the 777 tower my guess is that it would be around 575 feet in height. At an average of 13.75 ft. per floor these are thick floor plates for a residential tower.
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