Wow what happened to Beverly center and beverly connection? (Brea: rent, condos)

[ka8]

My wife and I just visited beverly connection in 10+ years and I was shocked at what I found. When I was a kid back in the 90's I was fortunate to have lived in Beverly Hills, wasn't rich but rent was $650 on Tower Dr. for 1 bed room apt in 1992. So Beverly center and connection was a frequent destination. Back then both places had movie theaters and now both gone. What I find shocking was how ghetto it became. Sure buildings were renovated but I can't believe they put Marshalls and TJ Max in there, and with it brings ghettoer shoppers. Loved it when Daily Grill and Sports Chalet were there. So for the affluent area that they're in I saw so much downgrade in terms of demographics, which is surprising. You would see demographic shift in areas that are going downhill.

[munchitup]

We should start a petition to keep the poors and their poor-people shops out of our malls!

[Nerf Herder]

Man I haven't been to the Beverly center in years. Can't remember exactly how long ago that was, but I remember shopping at the Broadway department store and the background music was Milli Vanilli, that's how long ago it was

[genjy]

Originally Posted by ka8

My wife and I just visited beverly connection in 10+ years and I was shocked at what I found. When I was a kid back in the 90's I was fortunate to have lived in Beverly Hills, wasn't rich but rent was $650 on Tower Dr. for 1 bed room apt in 1992. So Beverly center and connection was a frequent destination. Back then both places had movie theaters and now both gone. What I find shocking was how ghetto it became. Sure buildings were renovated but I can't believe they put Marshalls and TJ Max in there, and with it brings ghettoer shoppers. Loved it when Daily Grill and Sports Chalet were there. So for the affluent area that they're in I saw so much downgrade in terms of demographics, which is surprising. You would see demographic shift in areas that are going downhill.

I grew up poor in the Silver Lake/Echo Park area. Even back in high school (~15-18 years ago), my equally-poor, brown-skinned friends and I would often hang out at the Beverly Center on the weekends, proudly contributing to the demise of your ritzy mall.

[radiolibre99]

Beverly Center is ghetto? That's news to me.

[jamills21]

I would think most of the attention went to The Gove, but it's not like the Beverly Connection is ghetto at all. I have to accept the fact that a lot of people don't like poor people, quite sad honestly.

[jm1982]

I also grew up around the area and ended up spending quite a bit of time around that area.

I haven't spent much time there recently, but Beverly Connection always seemed like it had different businesses moving around. I remember going to the BookStar quite a bit. Also the theaters too.

To the OP, believe it or not people that actually have money do shop at Marshall's and TJ Maxx...that's one of the reasons they have money . They don't all blow their money at Barney's and Nordstrom's.

Of course that area is pretty dense with a lot of offices , Cedars,etc and you have a lot of people working around there that might not live in the area. It's probably one of the more transient areas of L.A .

Not everything can be high end and they probably realized that people were going to Beverly Center for the luxury brands/boutiques. Beverly Center never really appealed to me..always felt like an airport or something..

It's so funny how people would think Beverly Connection is ghetto...shows they haven't been to any real ghetto areas.


Also having money doesn't mean you have class . As Jay Z says , "You can pay for school, but you can't buy class"

[Those Who Squirm]

I last went to the Beverly Center about 15 years ago, up to which point I'd been going perhaps once or twice a year. You know how they say form follows function, right? When they were building the Beverly Center, form was so far behind function that it didn't even bother to wake up and get dressed that day. Nonetheless, I always admired the BC's functional layout, compact as it is for a mall.

As for Marshall's and T.J. Maxx being there, is there still at least one upscale anchor like Nordstroms or Bloomingdale's? If so, maybe this is another illustration of how retail's middle market has been hollowed out in recent years.

As for those who allude to ghettos and slums, these are the usually the same people who consider anything south of Wilshire or east of the 405 the ghetto.

[iama30something]

I have been living in Park La Brea for the past 2 years. I definitely think the Grove has stolen some of the glitz and glam that perhaps the Beverly Center used to have. I have been in LA for the past 4 years and it's always been the same to me, so I have nothing to compare it to.

That being said, I wouldn't say that neighborhood is ghetto by any means. They just built multi-million dollar condos off San Vicente and La Cienega.

[yby1]

Rich people love places like Marshall's and TJ Maxx. It saves them $$$.