Is this Downtown LA neighborhood getting a makeover? 

that metal leo guy is a freak. hes either really dumb or insane. Im not sure which

Yay thanks for watching! I have a few holiday videos - check em out on my page! 🙂

Come. I bet you than in less than a year u will get over it. Taxes, left, right. Come find out

​@DiegoHorchata he said he's from NY, you know they got it worse

What progress? There is not progress. Come and check by yourself

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I didn't finish my last text, so thanks again for doing this 😊!

The long proposed streetcar would serve this area well too. It would compliment the A and E lines.

a little reminder from the universe! Lol. Thanks for watching 😊

@@MichaelMartello Yep the Universe wants me to get there so will be coming on a boat like Captain Sparrow soon 😆

I am definitely not the biggest fan of DTLA but some areas are for sure better than others! And of course, there is so much more to LA than downtown

You’re not wrong to feel that way. Michael just has a perkiness to him that lightens up even the most depraved environments.

I was driving to Santa Monica to ride my bike on the beach path when I got sidetracked and accidentally made my way downtown. I had to drive through to get back on track and it was very depressing. It actually threw off the vibe of my whole day. I appreciate people like Michael giving us tours. It's not something I need to experience first hand.

@@gianniclaudI like Michael too.

@@espressobongo9975 me too! He’s just so sweet and handsome.

It's been South Park for decades. Though many younger people are now calling it South DTLA.

Some were originally going to be condos, but the market conditions weren't right. Some condo buildings got converted to luxury hotels.

You can download a database of the projects from this page! www.southpark.la/growth-development#:~:text=With%2034%20projects%20currently%20in,neighborhoods%20in%20Los%20Angeles%20County.

"Most American cities saw their downtowns go downhill starting over 50-60 years ago" 100%. The federal government started a program called "Urban Renewal" also called "Negro Removal", and it was as bad as it sounds. Downtowns across America were gutted of low-cost housing. In NYC this housing was partially replaced with public housing projects, but in the rest of American cities, they weren't replaced at all. Then to make things worse the federal government started an interstate highway program, which doesn't sound as bad, but once states got that money, they used it to destroy more of their downtowns especially where minorities lived. Whites moved to the new suburbs but it turns out suburbs are too spread out to pay for their own streets and sewers so inner cities were drained of their resources to pay for the suburbs that couldn't pay for themselves. As a result cities went bankrupt. See Detroit MI or Jackson MS. These cities grew their land area 10X over 30 years despite having the same population and went broke as a result. US cities have still not recovered from this downward spiral. I think as people embrace dense sustainable development and rapid transit like Toronto is, things will get better.

@@mariusfacktor3597 Today's city of San Francisco throws a lot of assumptions for a loop. Your theories about the decline of urban cores may have applied decades ago, but not so much today. SF is demographically very different from the cities you describe, it tore down its major waterfront freeway in 1991, it never saw business or as many residents flee to the suburbs as other cities did in the past, yet today SF is facing some of the same decline associated with urban America in the 1950s-60s.

Addendum: I saw a YT vid posted 2 years ago about France's capital. What's disturbing is that by LA standards, the City of Lights to me didn't look so bad. Yet I saw a variety of comments with this POV: "felixheavier5478: Paris is the dirtiest Western city I've visited. Never seen so many rats and garbage in my life. I will admit I haven't visited San Francisco or LA." "@Iain1962: I lived there for twenty years, it was beautiful, wonderful, vibrant, exciting and always interesting. I was there last year and it is a dump, everything is filfthy, I thought I was in a Souk in Morocco half the time, beggars and tramps and homeless everywhere. Thieves, pickpockets, scammers grafitti, bins overflowing. Tent camps and matresses lying about, drug taking everywhere, smoking crack in the Metro.....I'm not going back." Yikes. If Paris makes some people give thumbs down, LA ain't got a prayer. lol

@@gridley SF wasn't bulldozed like most other American cities, but its decline is easy to explain. They've made it just about completely illegal to build homes in SF for the last 50 years. It turns out when you ban building homes, home prices get really high, and when home prices get really high, people can't afford it and you get mass homelessness.

@@mariusfacktor3597 It's a combination of factors that are causing its decline. The announced closure of a major store that for over 70 years has fronted SF's Union Sq is due to what? Not enough customers, too much theft, too much online instead of brick & mortar?

Such a good point with the cheap builds and loud footsteps!

Why can't architects design houses where one tenant doesn't have to hear everything the neighbour above or beneath is doing?

@@ernesto.carloz Money. Plus this was not much of an issue with carpet. And to me it feels like the newer buildings are worse. I lived in an apartment highrise (1990 built) where they switched carpet to Hardwood above me. It was louder but by far not as bad as when I moved into a "new" building built in 2014. Nightmare. I currently live in a building from 1920. Not a peep.

​@@ernesto.carlozThey do except they are in expensive areas or condos.

It depends on the time of day. A lot more people walking around at noon and between 5-8 pm.

Ajajja, come down to downtown and any other LA city and u will se the true. Will never come back

There is a lot to see, and the 3 new stations that opened last year make it very convenient now.

You'd have to get roommates.

But, people who live in these area do not get paid minimum wage, they make over $150,000 a year or more.

Actually more like home it may be hard to talk to people but I used to it

I don’t agree that it never will be, I just believe it will never be as dense as Chicago, NYC, or SF. Downtown LA has good bones to be an even more vibrant downtown, but it starts with making it feel safe for people to actually want to visit and spend time in. Also, to compare to SF and Chicago, it’s a very similar story that the “downtowns” of each city are not places people spend a ton of time or want to, all the fun places to go eat and party and live are not in The Loop or Market St/Financial District. LA is obviously again unique, as the landscape of LA is so vast and beautiful. I just think in time with more transit and safer streets, downtown LA will be an even more robust hub - especially with all the stadiums arts and museums. I have a lot of feels on this as I’m from NYC and was raised there, but I lived in chicago for 10 years and 9 years in San Francisco :)

Cities are nothing without their economic center. DTLA is most definitely the heart of LA. Dense development gives economic benefits because it allows people to do more things more efficiently. It also allows further specialization and niche businesses. That's why in most of LA you'll see big box stores, but in DTLA you'll see one-of-a-kind stores. Also those less dense parts of LA are drains on city resources whereas DTLA provides much more tax revenue to the city than it uses. The more DTLA grows, the more prosperous LA becomes.

I think it’s incredibly negative to not want the city center of the second largest city in the country to be more prosperous. We *should* be rooting for a stronger, vibrant, attractive downtown. A strong downtown, is a strong LA. A better downtown doesn’t mean other neighborhoods in LA have to be shitty, and vice versa.

There are absolutely people living in Los Angelos who would move to a vibrant urban area if it existed in the city

Ban guns

It's not. They don't report on all the problems.

Ajajaj, come to check out trains systems. I will you. And u will se the reality. Will never come back ir take a bus or train rite again

Ya everyone has brown skin right

@@gthisiseasy What you don't build you don't respect.