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how come shitholes like this in say kentucky or west virgina are never referred to as "vibrant" ?

Vibrant is code for its cool because blacks or latinos or indians live there, and makes it sound worse when the feds, big money developers, ED leads to its end.

The other end is this same place left to exist till say 1985 would show how people do not care about latinos, look how we let them live, look at the squalor ! Its charming though because it was taken from them before they had the chance to leave it on their own.

When you are white, you cannot win, no matter what you do, it is sinister and evil.

@modernhomesLA: Actually, no. Fickett’s widow (who likes to claim that she still speaks to Ed Fickett fromm beyond the grave), has made many, many claims about Fickett’s legacy, claiming projects from other architects around Southern California as Fickett’s. Krisel and Fickett were good friends, and Krisel has nothing but good things to say about him. But Fickett’s widow is another story. The relationship between the Alexanders and Bill Krisel is a long one, predating their Palm Springs developments. The Ocotillo is Krisel’s design 100%. As far as Krisel’s record, he actually served ON the ethics committee for the AIA office, and testified in court numerous times as an expert witness. Not sure where your information or acrimony comes from, but it has no bearing in fact.

@MidCenturyVintageDealer: Totally screwed. The millennials have been completely screwed, and I also feel terrible. Anyone who’s above the age of 30 on this board crowing about "yeah you gotta be a winner to make it in LA" is totally in a different boat, and maybe like a lot of us (myself included) made money on the whole housing run-up. They will look back and blame the Fed for pumping the hell out of housing for the last 13 years to save the ass of the rest of the economy. Didn’t work out so well… Plus it’s so so so so much more expensive now to go to college than it was when I went. No comparison. Higher ed cost has even appreciated at higher rates than housing if that’s believable (apparently, it’s true).

As so many of William L. Pereira’s important mid-century civic and commercial buildings face the wrecking ball across the Southland,
one has to ask: why not simply restore his iconic LACMA campus, the subject of Ed Ruscha’s most famous painting and a project that speaks eloquently to Southern California’s post-war ambitions and to the practical needs of a public plaza and exhibition hall? It’s bizarre to see the museum making such a fuss over the gift of a much-altered John Lautner house in the hills when it’s sitting on, and planning to obliterate, a legitimate masterpiece by one of our greatest homegrown architects. Nix the incredible shrinking Zumthor; save the Pereira!

Saying that CBS TV City hosted Elvis first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show without mentioning the three records broken on that Sept 9, 1956 is not fair to Elvis. LOL One of the three records stands to this day, namely the 82.6 % share he garnered for Sullivan with the other two,. the 43.7 rating and the 60.2 million audience having fallen almost 8 years later by the Beatles’first appearance at the same Sullivan Show and, subsequently, by a huge number of broadcasts. Here is Elvis at the parking lot, waiting …… https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/american-singer-and-musician-elvis-presley-poses-outside-cbs-city-picture-id51660969

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Ed,

Just wanted to introduce some facts into an emotionally charged subject. I know you want to scream FIRE anytime something happens to a gay person, but get some god damn perspective. Gays have been treated better than any other minority group in this country’s history. Is there progress that needs to be made? Yes. Is the way to accomplish that spreading fear and exaggeration? No. Focus on outreach and public dialogue – there’s not enough of that. I think this event will galvanize the gay community to really address their rights in a manner that will result in real change, but so far all I’m hearing about are protests in West LA. That’s not going to get it done.

There will be no new team. TV revenue is shared by all the teams, adding another team will not add any revenue – ad sales are tanking (GM anyone?), so there is no reason for owners to share that revenue with another team, reducing their booty. This is a for profit business who main reason for existing is gambling and selling soap.

This entire issue is luxury boxes, if the economy continues to tank, as it will, then are companies based in Los Angeles really justified in spending big bucks for 8 games a year?

My prediction: Ed breaks ground, economy breaks, no stadium but a nice pile of dirt.

To begin-
Los Angeles is already a world class city- just ask David Hockney, Placido Domingo, Ed Moses, Frank Gehry, Gustavo Dumel, Thom Mayne, Wolfgang Puck…. plug in the name-check of your choice. But, I gotta confess- I absolutely hate loathe and despise downtown LA! It combines all of the worst aspects of two of my least favorite places: New York City and Juarez Mexico! I don’t care how many groovy lofts you build down there or how much you charge idiots for the priviolege of dwelling in the oh-so-hip and oh-so-redolent-of-homeless-piss atmosphere, it’s still skid row, and I only go there to go to MoCA or the Music Centre. That said, give the Broad collection to LACMA. The museum could use the boost (since they lost the Gilbert silver and mosics, it’s looking mighty thin) and I am sure Michael Govan would make good use of it.

@guest (#16): i dont work with the LA ED in my daily capacities, so why would i be familiar with him, jackass? furthermore, my question wasnt one of "who is this guy"; i was trying to determine if he was spouting fluff #’s from a cbre or cushman quarterly market update. i was saving any snarky remarks for that situation.

now, further, just cause he is the "king of dtla" (google says so) doesnt mean that there are 60 leases that will have direct effect on this property. just cause a retail lease is signed for some piece of shit space, for some piece of shit concept, or in a shit area well out of walking distance doesnt mean there will be any benefit to this area or property. so yeah, i am taking exception to some of his generalization.

The standard ITE parking generation models are completely inappropriate for a project in a pedestrian-friendly area like that. Sorry, Steve.

And anyway, the intersection of Santa Monica and Crescent Heights is at LOS F because of through traffic, not because of local traffic generators. If someone were proposing a regional-draw office complex or somesuch at this location, a traffic argument would ring less hollow. Mr. Martin’s op-ed also failed to mention at which hours this intersection is at such a low LOS; my guess is that it’s only at rush hour. You’re a fool to drive SMB at rush hour anyway.