The Spring Arcade (between Spring and Broadway) has been left behind in Downtown's gentrification--the once-fancy and super-popular shopping area originally opened to great fanfare in 1924 and was booming all the way through the 1990s. But it's apparently stuck in that decade: vendors are all doing lackluster business selling stuff like boomboxes and Korn and Nirvana t-shirts. But now that Broadway is finally on its way back, the building's owners are getting proactive: they've converted the floors above the Aracade into apartments and are on to a big reno of the Arcade, hoping to add "an English pub and a host of new restaurants to the mall." [LAT, image via]
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