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I have a feeling this site might go residential given all the air rights Howard Hughes has to work with from Pier 17. A tall tower at this location would have dramatic Financial District and East River views.

In every home there should at least be one window in the kitchen that opens for fresh air to come in and bad smell to escape.

People commenting that this building boom, where massive new complexes of apartments and condos are appearing all over the west side of Los Angeles, is going to lead to reduced traffic, apparently believing droves of people will ride mass transit, are clearly detached from reality. The simple irrefutable fact is traffic congestion in Los Angeles is getting NOTABLY markedly worse and particularly in the last several years. According to the American Lung Association’s recent "State of the Air 2017" Los Angeles has the worst smog and ozone of any city in the United States. Los Angeles is on target to be the future nightmare city as it is portrayed in the movies (e.g., Elysium). On so many levels this construction craze is wrong. A key ingredient for any city is water. Great idea to build more and encourage more people to move to Los Angeles, a place already facing a grave water crisis that’s not being taken seriously. According to the scientists, water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dropping to dangerous levels, reflecting the Colorado River’s worsening "structural deficit." The Colorado River basin, which feeds the two reservoirs, has been drying out over the last two decades due to regional demands exceeding the water supply. NASA has predicted the drought will continue and likely get worse for many years to come. With increased traffic comes increased air pollution. With increased population comes greater needs for electricity. Yet the largest hydro generating plant, the Hoover Dam, is making less and less power with each drop in water level. The Hoover is down 30 percent from when Mead was full. For every foot that Mead drops, generating capacity decreases by five to six megawatts. With increased population comes increased sewage. In 1960 the population of the city of Los Angeles was 2.48 million. As of 2017 there were 4 million residents! A massive (nearly 40 percent) increase of 1.52 million people. For reference, imagine the entire populations of Dallas Texas AND Tuscon Arizona moving to the City of Los Angeles—that’s the sort of increase in population we are talking about! Ad hoc unbridled construction is not the solution and there is a distinct lack of competent leadership regarding this critical issue.

"Nevertheless, exactly how that $100 billion—about $2.5 billion per year—would be raised and spent is still up in the air, of course."

What a visionary! The City needs $100B – just pay up, don’t ask me how to get it or how it should be spent.

I did some research months ago and found an article that stated the only true way to make money is to be able to offer your home for the entire week. Apparently most attendees make it a week long event or at least more than just the weekend. The city of ATL requires you collect and pay a hotel tax, but you could probably get around that. It also said that the average rate is around $150-$200 a night because at this point, you’re just getting average fans. High roller and corporate types will have paid accommodations already. These tips came from Air B and B, so not sure how valid they are for our city. I’m waking distance to marta and considered it, but ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it if I had to vacate a for more than just the weekend. But, you could maybe find some last minute people willing to pay for the weekend.

MARTA needs to sell the air rights of Medical Center station.

Looks like it gets a decent amount of fresh air…but your point is duly noted.

It is a magnificent idea, but at the same time, civic buildings have to be used and maintained by real humans. It’s a very cold building — literally. Wind blows in off the plaza and the ocean on both sides and clerks working at public windows on the lobby level (as originally designed) had to wear winter clothes and gloves all day to conduct business. The concrete is held together with steel and other metals that weren’t designed for the high level of salt in the air so close to the ocean; the structure itself needs constant refitting and rebuilding to keep from disintegrating. And the theoretically useful spaces inside, which to a graduate student seem to embody good use of public space in which to conduct city business, are in fact, only what an idealistic graduate student in the late 50s would have envisioned. In truth, while the views and feel are inspiring, the actual use of space is not useful. It would be great if the whole thing could be retrofitted to contemporary standards while maintaining the good intentions of the design, but that is one cold, cold plaza.

Eddy D do you long for the bad old days of industrial polluters on this site, how about an industrial wasteland kicking up toxic dust and chemicals into the air as the buildings crumble. The other fact you fail to recognize is Sterling Bay bought, at top dollar, land from the city, should the city have been short changed so that these developers can get by with small pathetic row houses?

You NIMBYS need to go find a quiet boring suburb to live in and leave the city living to those of us who seem to be able to handle a little crowding and a little inconvenience from traffic.

Yep, I don’t think it’s architectural pedigree is going to be enough to save this one. Over one acre in Bel Air is going to get much more house then this