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Fidelity999
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DTLA has jumped the shark
Jun 22 2020 04:33PM more by Fidelity999
Tags: LA, Random (All tags)

I was in DTLA today for the first time since Corona V and the riots. Since early March

Holy shit I feel sorry for all the urbanites that thought buying Condos In DTLA was a good idea. I�m talking the financial and South Park districts

The stench, the homeless, the mentally ill have taken over since the office workers were sent home

It will take years if ever to come back. Tried to take some clients out to lunch but it was almost impossible to find something open and the sights and smells made it impossible to have an appetite

Any DTLA residents want to weigh in??


      
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jazz51
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Jun 22 2020 04:37PM     link to this

Not a resident but do get downtown to visit clients....I hate every trip.....

Of course, LA is not as bad as San Francisco, but LA might be catching up.
sherkahn
Diamond Bar, SGV, LA, CA
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Jun 22 2020 04:55PM     link to this

DTLA goes up and down every 8-9 years. People who buy in downtown are not there for short term, but the long term.

I know a former minimum wage coworker/artist of mine who bought in the ‘hood when it was bad. He worked hard to clean up the block and 12 years later he has two gallery spaces in the new arts district. So the potential is there if you want to work it.

Nothing in life easy. DTLA just helps take away the delusion of an easy life.
Fidelity999
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Jun 22 2020 05:05PM     link to this

No delusions
Not an easy life but when you work hard have a vision then all the good things gravitate to you $$$

Not a hard formula to figure out

Like your gallery friend I hope
IcedCoffee
Anaheim, OC, CA
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Jun 22 2020 05:53PM     link to this

LA has always been a disaster for me, so I can't imagine what it'd be like now between the virus and the riots. Defo will take a long time to recover.
Fidelity999
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Jun 22 2020 06:31PM     link to this

Not sure if you will ever get DTLA workers back in those buildings

I don’t think I would. Nothing to do with Corona V

So that could mean the end of the DTLA renaissance

yellowB2
Mission Viejo, OC, CA
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Jun 22 2020 07:51PM     link to this

The only thing DTLA has that I want is Phillippe's.
Upper
City of Los Angeles, LA, CA
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Jun 22 2020 08:13PM     link to this

Let me get this straight. Millennials pushed skid row out of skid row and now skid row is taking back skid row? I'm sure the Millennials will be back.



sleepyone
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Jun 22 2020 08:55PM     link to this

Congratulations LA. You made the IE look like a better place to live. That’s a hard feat you pulled off there. Very impressive.
cgem
SGV, LA, CA
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Jun 22 2020 11:47PM     link to this

Dont worry about buying opportunities. A big crash is coming soon on residential properties and retail commercial properties.

With all the default on mortgage notes and loan mo hikes, it smells like 2007 again. Even with the cheap cash and drop of the dollar value wont supplant the type of loss in biz opportunities and jobs in white collar sector.

With almost no chinese money coming in, LA real properties value wont last.

Just hoard cash and get ready.
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Jun 23 2020 12:49AM     link to this

Phillippe's is soo good, maybe I'll venture out there tomorrow or Wed when I go to the Petersen

Museum. James Hetfield's Cars are there.
DrBoogie
El Monte, SGV, LA, CA
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Jun 23 2020 01:33AM     link to this

I drove along San Pedro St, a few times in the past two months to pick up
Chinese food from Paul's Kitchen. Many of the homeless are there between
4th St and 6th St. That area is called Skid Row.
Hundreds of homeless people not social distancing or wearing masks.
Yet Garcetti, threatens residents who don't wear masks in public.
calIvan
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Jun 23 2020 07:32AM     link to this

The homeless operate outside of normal standards. How can you impose masks and social distancing to people that take dumps on the sidewalk and use cardboard to wipe? How do you impose sanitation when they wash their hands once or twice a day at most. Just discount them from following all normal health codes. It is unfortunate but you have to be realistic. They have so many other more pressing issues to deal with daily than corona.

what if ...

Catalina island sucks. We should just get a barge and throw all the homeless on it, drop them off in Avalon and Catalina and tell them to have a good time, we'll be back to check on them in 6 mo.
They'll figure something out and we get our sidewalks, freeway exits and parks back. They can figure out how to take buffalo down to eat.
happyguy63
Pasadena, SGV, LA, CA
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Jun 23 2020 12:37PM     link to this

I do not think "jump the shark" means what you think it means!
youngster
SGV, LA, CA
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Jun 23 2020 05:10PM     link to this

Wait till a rainy day, you will see bags of shit and needles float out from the bushes where people sleep and get high.
Mr.Horndog
City of San Diego, San Diego, CA
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Jun 23 2020 07:32PM     link to this

"The stench, the homeless, the mentally ill"

Wait, is this blog about GoBallsDeep or Lowlife.bj?
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