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LA has built new apartments/condos and renovated many old existing buildings into apts/condos in and around its core. That is the kind of development that is needed. The Wilshire Grand project will be spectacular when completed but I love what is taking place with the old and new, especially the old buildings. Not a bunch of new skyscrapers.
L.A. has not had half the development DC has had since 2004. That's why its CBD absolutely crushes LA's CBD. Downtown DC is bigger and growing at a much faster rate than DTLA.
Plus, LA still has the problem of "relentlessly accommodating the automobile" throughout the rest of the city. It's hard to get that big city urban feel with strip malls, parking lots, and four lane roads all over the city.
Wilshire Grand Redevelopment
New civic park
grand avenue project
broad museum
revitalization of broadway
regional connector(subway)
Farmers field
LA central
New Marriot hotel planned next to the Ritz
new Convention Center
Metropolis Project
many other developments
Wilshire Grand Redevelopment
New civic park
grand avenue project
broad museum
revitalization of broadway
regional connector(subway)
Farmers field
LA central
New Marriot hotel planned next to the Ritz
new Convention Center
Metropolis Project
many other developments
its just some of the development LA has planned
Nice. Now all L.A. has to do is raze all of its single family homes, shorten its blocks, and then demolish its commercial thoroughfares and replace them with mixed-use development. Should be a cinch.
L.A. has not had half the development DC has had since 2004. That's why its CBD absolutely crushes LA's CBD. Downtown DC is bigger and growing at a much faster rate than DTLA.
Plus, LA still has the problem of "relentlessly accommodating the automobile" throughout the rest of the city. It's hard to get that big city urban feel with strip malls, parking lots, and four lane roads all over the city.
i preffer 4 lane streets over NEastern small ass streets everyday
Nice. Now all L.A. has to do is raze all of its single family homes, shorten it's blocks, and then demolish its commercial thoroughfares and replace them with mixed-use development. Should be a cinch .
you have crlearly never been to LA, or been to busy looking at all its defects and bitching about how many cracks there are on a sidewalk or how much traffic there is, the only 2 projects i mentioned there that require demolishing are wilshire grand and Farmers field
Instead of aknowledging his faux pas(posting an outdated article) Bajan jumps to his next rambling mess.
Why does he keep bringing up NYC neighborhoods?
I can understand wanting to keep the arguments confined to downtown areas. It's the only way Philly and D.C. can feel like "big boys" versus L.A. Pull back even a little, and don't even bother comparing. Head out even 6 miles from D.C., and it's borderline rural.
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San Francisco is already walkable. LA is trying to become walkable. That means LA is trying to be more like SF.
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