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@pmahcud: I would be shocked if the NFL let Kronke add to the rules he has already broken by letting him move after St. Louis comes up with a stadium and financing to keep the Rams in town. After the season the NFL has had with the number of moral black eyes they have recieved, if they let the Rams move they will lose a lot of respect of a ton of fans. They will also set a precedent which will allow any team who sees the grass is greener in another state to just up and move their team with no repercussion. Kronke is already breaking the rules on cross ownership that the NFL has turned a blind eye to. So I do not think he would have a leg to stand on in a lawsuit against the NFL. Also, Kronkes main business with the Walton family is real estate. Until ground is broken on the Inglewood it is just another real estate transaction.Funding for the Carson project is already available through Goldman-Sachs, everyone seems to be forgetting this.

@ArchiSavant: There is a Gap in Beverly Hills’ it’s on Beverly Drive. Planet Hollywood was on Wilshire for years, where the Nike store is now; it went out of business. (Is that company still in business anywhere?) I think Rodeo Drive has become slightly disappointing: too many mall stores like Coach (no hate on Coach; they make nice handbags, but you can buy them at Macy’s) and Bebe (in every mall near you!), and the real glamour, which I cannot afford, like Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Marc Jacobs, Irene Neuwirth etc. are all on Melrose Place, a much more elegant, quiet and less-frenetic and tourist and paparazzi infested street. Even the ultra-luxe companies like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany and Chanel have become so ubiquitous they have lost some of their cachet and exclusivity. It would be great if Rodeo Drive offered nothing but super-high end designers, couture jewelry, fine art and stores that only exist in LA. Give visitors to our city an experience they won’t have anyplace else, not just another trip to the mall.

@Gnomic: LA Live makes for a fake city.

No, it doesn’t. It’s merely one piece of development amidst lots of other development. If something touristy and gimmicky somehow makes LA a "fake" city, then the Eiffel Tower made (or makes) Paris a fake city, the stuff all over Times Square (including the flashy TV studios and nearby big Toys R Us) make New York a fake city, and Fisherman’s Wharf and certainly — most certainly! — the Cannery make San Francisco a fake city.

And what the heck is "political economy?"

@SamSinister: What does this have to do with plastering ads all over to serve the cashflow of a private company? Ads don’t redevelop or revitalize a community. (Jeez, isn’t this obvious?)

And why are you so bothered by some bright new signage in one small corner of downtown when a lot of the rest of community is mostly dark, semi-abandoned and rundown?

As for the cashflow you speak of, because the center of the city through the years has lost a lot of that — due to companies moving out of the area to other parts of town and other cities — Los Angeles ended up not much less hollowed out than St Louis, Cinncinati or Kansas City.

The Chargers move to Industry is a lock. They can’t get a stadium done in SD and they’re barely selling out Qualcomm-despite an exiting (if not perennially disappointing), big name team.

Roski needs a second franchise but that may not be an easy task. Expansion is not on the table. The NFL will balk at Wayne Weaver’s Jaguars leaving an excellent stadium in growing Jacksonville, the Rams are going to be sold to a St. Louis syndicate, if the Bills move (doubtful) it’ll be to nearby Toronto, the Bay Area may well decide to build a twofer facility serving both the Raiders and Niners and the notion of a publicly built stadium in Minnesota is gaining sentiment.

It’s not that L.A. isn’t a big enough for two teams or that two teams won’t draw. Rather it’s a matter of how much cash Southland fans will fork over to see a team other than the Bolt’s, with no sentimental history for local fans to rally around. The ‘Skins might be a national embarrassment but you couldn’t pry the season tickets from the hands of a 6th generation Washingtonian with a crobar. I’m doubtful if jaded Angeleno’s, in the tens of thousands, will pay $175 to watch the 4-12 Industry Jaguars host Kansas City.

@JDRCRASHER: What it boils down to is this: You. Don’t. Like. It. Fine, that’s your right. It’s your right to believe it has no worth and may be better replaced by something else.

But Yamasaki’s place in the architectural pantheon is neither insured by nor limited to his having designed the World Trade Center (which, btw, if you never saw them were awesome pieces of design, structure and enginnering ) and the Century Plaza. There were dozens of other buildings that built the fabric of a distinguished career. Would I put him on par with Louis Kahn or Paul Rudolph? Or Gordon Bunshaft? Bill Pereira? Hard to say. Then again, those guys have no shortage of dissmissive detractors too. See how that works?

So yes, I stand by my assertion that his place as an architect deserving of note and respect stands. And it wasn’t me who drew that consensus…it was history, his peers and his portfolio.

Eastside Goldline Tour simplified:
Lil Tokyo- obvious
Aliso Pico- skip (or walk around dolores mission, but the area is rough)
Boyle- Mariachi Plaza, that nice restaraunt down the row and eastside love bar within walking distance, I see this area being the first Boyle Heights community to get gentrified
Soto- Calle Brooklyn (now Chavez) just north, great food at La Parilla on St. Louis, tons of great architecture
Indiana- Calle Primera shopping district, raspados on 3rd, el mercadito is wonderful
Ford- Original King Taco and Lupe’s
ELA Civic Ctr- I dunno, walk around the courthouse and belvedere park?
Atlantic- Lots of fun stuff around, great chicken across on 3rd, Bob’s Freeze on Beverly

East LA/ Boyle Heights does have gangs and crime problems, but it is no way dangerous. Plus most criminals know better to attack anyone who is white/wealthy or they will bring the heat to their area for years to come, it is much more likely other young Latinso will be vicitms of crime more than a curious hipster or whatnot. So check it out, EastLos is a great treasure and the more non-eastsiders embrace it the better.

This place needs a total maker over. There are good traditional style decorated homes and this isn’t one of them. Someone’s decorator needs to take a hint from Sean Hayes’. Oooops, actually this place looks like homeowner decorated him/herself. Which begs one to wonder… if you can afford a 3.5M home, you can afford a real decorator. The first thing I would do is change the bed sheets. Go get something from Frette or Pratesi. Anything is better than the current ones that looks like the owner got it from Bed Bath and Beyond (and even there they have Frette Hotel collection). And remove all the faux Tang dynasty style figurines. They just don’t add anything to the space except tackiness. I can never understand why people buy fake things. If you can’t afford the real ones, don’t buy them. It’s like buying fake Louis Vuitton. Why bother? It’s just tacky. There are way too many area rugs in one room; they made the floor looks blotchy and really breaks up the space (in a bad way).

Wow, so many haters. First of all, if you don’t get it I’m guessing it’s because you don’t live in Los Angeles. Second, screw ‘getting’ it. It’s a giant locomotive hoisted up by a crane — how powerful an image. I think it’s incredible.

I think immediately of so many things — how the development of the west was so dependent on the railroad, how LA has ‘hung up’ its transportation development, or is ‘hung up’ by its transportation problem, etc.

The person above who thinks that’s its not feasible doesn’t understand Koons. Hey said it will ‘fool an engineer who’s worked on trains his whole life’, which makes me think that it would be a fabrication of a train and not a ‘real’ train.

Belongs in a theme park. Hey man, seriously, who freakin’ cares? That’s such a limited view of Art. Same with the person who said that the arches in st. louis are ‘graceful’ and that that makes more sense then what people perceive to be ‘ugly’ about the Koons proposal.

You know, we have to look at so much crap in LA everyday, and what a majority of the people think is cool or beautiful — well, just look at the billboard charts. Popular opinion has never been a good barometer of beauty.

This is ballsy. It has gravitas. It’s just what LA needs.

The Cassity family including Tyler Cassity who owns Hollywood Forever Cemetery are complete criminals and crooks that should be put in jail. They basically stole money from customers to buy houses all over the country from St. Louis to Nantucket to Naples. It also helped fund Tylers lavish lifestyle with brand new cars and Hollywood Hills homes. It also helped him keep his severe drug habit going on for years. The Cassity’s care nothing about the deceased,only about turning a profit on your dead family member. Tyler’s dad Doug was put in jail back in the 80s for basically stealing money and Tyler is just like him. Tyler is trying to separate himself from his dad and brother but the fact is Hollywood Forever is part of Forever Enterprises and NPS. We can only hope that justice is served and Tyler Cassity, Doug Cassity and Brent Cassity are all sent to jail for a very long time.

1. - thanks for that. This comment I thought was the best

" Prakash Holla 4 hours ago

How about going a step back. Didnt "older Hollywood" ruin the very pleasant orange orchards that caught the eye in every direction when movie makers rushed in (1910?) and bought large tracts and converted them into studios. Harold Robbins writes about "Magnum Studios" making a killing leasing land at a few cents and on leasing it to other film producers for a fortune.
A further step back. The fur industry died as a result of changing tastes and the jobless fur trappers (1840?) rushed to California and hustled the local Latinos into losing their land and livelihood. (See Louis L’Amour and other authors who have written excellent books on California)
Didnt the Spanish invade (1700?) the land of the Chumash and other natives and ruin their lifestyle
Angelinos should realize that this is only one step in a process that, like entropy, is irreversible. Embrace it!"

Same shit different day with our NIMBY’s.

Bring Back The Orange Groves!!!

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