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I agree with everything you say. I'll add that, while gentrification is bad, this DTLA stuff is mostly replacing nothing with something

Posted by con_carne Feb 5 '15, 11:17

And that's pretty much all good. All these old buildings that are being repurposed have "good bones," and new tenants are moving in accordingly where they were mostly empty before.

My grousing is with the obvious turning the area into a playground for the rich. The comparisons with NYC's SoHo are apt. The people moving into these nice new apartments are usually rich and this is their second and third home already. In a time when so many people can't even afford first homes. :) All that said, I still love all this movement and progress. It's exciting.

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Was it UCLA that did that study on the earthquake safety of buildings in L.A.? I wonder what it has to say about these "good bones". -- nm - Mop Feb 5, 11:22 1
- Well the good thing about these buildings is they tend to be steel reinforced. The most at risk buildings are unreinforced brick or concrete - con_carne Feb 5, 11:38

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I agree with everything you say. I'll add that, while gentrification is bad, this DTLA stuff is mostly replacing nothing with something

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