Anyways, tangential, but all of this is making me wish that instead of investing in the convention center, the city invested in and revisited plans to revitalize LA City Mall and Civic Center
One thing that’s interesting to me about bringing government workers “back to DTLA,” is that the City is already largely at capacity with office space. LAHD literally operates out of a coworking building because there’s not enough space.
Implementing a serious vacancy tax in DTLA would do so much more to help repopulate the ghost town than the plan of forcing government workers to go back to work and theoretically "increase foot traffic" and buy more coffees or whatever would ever.
and since someone is probably thinking it: No, we cannot turn it into housing. Yes, I know laws have passed to make office to res conversion easier but these bldgs have massive floor plates and retrofitting plumbing, electric etc. for residential needs is $ and difficult
anyway if you live in LA you should vote for nithya raman regardless of what 27 dorks playing model UN think lol
and if the NPC does go through with this DSA-LA should just ignore it and stand by their endorsement