Mobile app, hardware, digital media, and clean tech companies are popping up left and right. Co-working locations, business incubators and accelerators have also sprung up in the area and are feeding the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The neighborhood also attracts a diverse, talented workforce. Los Angeles has proven a leader in negotiating Community Benefits Agreements, and it will be primed to do the same when corporate tenants make the leap downtown, too.
Stakeholders need only look north to San Francisco for guidance. The City has successfully negotiated CBAs with tech companies in order to attract these firms to underdeveloped areas like Central Market and the Tenderloin.
The City offers a lucrative payroll tax exemption to companies willing to move to this area, but in exchange, these companies must agree to participate in the city-run First Source Hiring program, which connects local residents to entry level jobs. Through this mechanism, for example , Twitter has provided grants and in-kind service donations to several program that focus on preparing underserved youth for future education and career opportunities.
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New York Manhattan , south of 59th Street also has seen its ups and downs. But New York did not abandon large swaths of development, only to move elsewhere. Downtown Chicago expanded northward along Michigan Avenue, but little if any of the Loop was ever abandoned and it has undergone continuous renewal.
The West Coast's premium downtown areas, San Francisco and Seattle, have interspersed new development along with the old, and remain more important to their metropolitan areas than downtown Los Angeles, accounting for from four to six times its employment share though still less than 15 percent. Even Houston, which most resembles Los Angeles in its post war downtown rebuild, managed its transformation without abandoning the historic core. And, at the same time, all are enjoying increasing residential demand, like downtown Los Angeles.
Downtown interests are rightly proud of the rising residential population. This has occurred in many downtowns across the nation.
Between and , areas within 2 miles of City Hall gained , residents in the major metropolitan areas over 1 million population. However, within in the next ring, from 2 to 5 miles from City Hall the decline in population more than compensated for the core gains minus , The situation was the same in Los Angeles, where the Census Bureau reports that population within 2 miles of City Hall rose 12,, while it declined 23, between 2 and 5 miles.
The growth of downtown Los Angeles is impressive in part because it was stagnant for so many decades. In context, however, it is no "game-changer. It would be a mistake to characterize the emerging downtown Los Angeles as reasserting any economic primacy. Its former function is beyond revival. But the resurgence is more about sports and entertainment venues, restaurants and bars, loft conversions, and hotels than it is about companies that need a lot of floors in tall buildings.
Nightlife and streetscapes trump florescent light and cubicles. The transformation of downtown Los Angeles is not so much a renaissance of a business core, but a shift into a new, and different, function.
But it's not likely to ever resemble the Upper East Side or Upper West Side in New York, not only because its residential base will remain small, but because downtown is hardly an ascendant business center.
Wendell Cox is principal of Demographia, an international public policy and demographics firm. He was appointed to the Amtrak Reform Council to fill the unexpired term of Governor Christine Todd Whitman and has served as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, a national university in Paris. I don't think any serious person would contend that LA isn't polycentric.
The exterior featured granite and terracotta finishes, while the interior included hardwood floors, ornamental iron, and high-speed elevators. The LA Times wrote:. No expense has been spared to make the twin office buildings, with the connecting arcade, among the best in the country, and in exterior and interior finishes, the structure is believed to be without peer.
Today, the structure, now branded the Spring Arcade Building , is a gorgeous multi-use residential and retail space with restaurants and bars. One of the most beautiful buildings in downtown Los Angeles, the Fine Arts Building at West Seventh Street was originally conceived as a space where local artists and artisans could make and sell their works.
Designed by the firm of Walker and Eisen, the Romanesque Revival building was opened on December 8, , to over 27, impressed guests. The exterior of the story building featured ornamental gargoyles, spires and griffins, and sculptures by the artist Burt William Johnson. But it was the magnificent lobby which really set tongues wagging. Batchelder and murals by famed muralist Anthony B. The building flourished as an epicenter of art and culture in Los Angeles for a short time, before the depression forced it to become a more traditional commercial structure.
Over the years it was known as the Signal Oil Building and the Havenstrite Building, and went through a variety of owners. It was rechristened the Fine Arts Building in , when it was restored by the legendary historic-preservationist developers Ratkovich, Bowers and Perez, under the architectural direction of Brenda Levin. The large office tower was built by Albert R.
Walker and Percy A. Howard Crane. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin. According to a issue of Motion Picture News :. The general interior arrangement differs radically from other Los Angeles houses in that a great deal of attention has been given to both the entrance lobby and foyer…the lobby is done in black, gold, red and buff marble, with large gold mirrors set in frames of antique design of antique gold.
The balcony is panoramic, and in its rear is a promenade, with a passageway leading into the foyer…Every seat in the big auditorium is alike. The chairs have been especially designed for this theater, and have deep cushions and air inflated backs, a new feature in theater construction… The new Los Angeles theater is regarded somewhat as a parent theater to a group that will arise in at least 12 cities. The building would change hands several times over the decades, and the theater ceased showing movies by In , it was lovingly repurposed and reopened as the Ace Hotel and the Theater at Ace Hotel , and has become the lynchpin in the resurgence of South Broadway as a social and cultural hotspot.
Oviatt had dreamed up a luxe, all-purpose story building- his store would occupy the first three floors, while the other floors would be rented out to other high-end businesses. Thirty tons of custom-made Rene Lalique glass, imported from France, was commissioned for the building- including a ceiling, doors, mail-boxes, and elevator panels.
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