[throwaway542134]

>Downtown has the best transport access in the entire city

The only problem is that most people don't have a reason to go there. The streets are usually empty aside from the homeless encampments.

The only reasons I've ever had to go to DTLA was to attend a conference and some games at the Staples Center. It's a cultural and recreational wasteland compared to the rest of the city.

[gamblor956]

The streets are usually empty aside from the homeless encampments.

Objectively false. The homeless camps are in Skidrow and near City Hall.

It's a cultural and recreational wasteland compared to the rest of the city.

There are nearly a dozen museums in DTLA including 2 world-famous art museums, an opera, 4 operational Broadway-style theaters that are still regularly in use, around a dozen smaller performance theaters, more than 200 restaurants including one of the world's busiest/most profitable restaurants, 3 bowling alleys, 3 karaoke bars, more than a dozen nightclubs, 3 arcades, 3 higher-ed schools (not including USC, which is technically outside of downtown in its own neighborhood), more than a dozen parks, around a dozen breweries, 2 large movie theaters (including one used to premier a number of Hollywood movies), events every weekend in the summer. Oh, and the food-cart phenomenon got its start in DTLA at the corner of 9th and Hope, where some of today's most famous restaurateurs got their start slinging fusion tacos to FIDM students.

If anything, there's too much stuff jammed into DTLA compared to the rest of the city.

[mixmastamyk]

^El Pueblo, Little Tokyo, Fashion/Flower/Jewelry/Finance districts. About as clueless a post as I've ever seen.

[Rebelgecko]

Los Angeles is less downtown-focused than other big cities but I still don't think that's a fair representation.

You can go to a hockey game or a basketball game in DTLA, and you're near stadiums for baseball, football and soccer. If you'd rather see a symphony than a game of sportsball you can listen to the LA phil at Disney Hall (and if the architecture of Disney Hall is more modern than you prefer, there's plenty of older buildings worth checking out).

There's a bunch of museums if you're into that kind of thing. On the grungier side, there's Santee Alley and the fashion district if you want to get that "third world bazaar" experience without having to travel.

You can get food from dozens of different cultures, even without visiting enclaves like Chinatown or Little Tokyo.

[jayd16]

>The only problem is that most people don't have a reason to go there.

This is out of date. There's a lot more to do downtown these days.

[mixmastamyk]

Indeed, that response is seemingly from twenty years ago. 90% of LA history is in downtown also. What downtown looks like today:

https://urbanize.la/post/perla-condo-tower-tops-out-4th-broa...

Still, skid row is as bad as it ever was.