downtown open house ‘08 starts… now!
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If you’ve walked anywhere in Downtown during the last couple of weeks, you won’t need a reminder for this one.
Today kicks off the three-day Downtown LA Open House ‘08 neighborhood-wide event hoping to showcase Downtown’s more attractive side to the rest of the city.
Many local businesses, museums, bars, restaurants, art galleries, hotels, new loft projects and other venues are participating in the free-range, self-guided tour.
As one commenter points out, if you’re already a man or woman of the town, use the opportunity to peek into your neighbors’ lofts and look at all the great bathrooms!
Expect thousands of people to attend, supplemented by the Dwell on Design conference happening concurrently at the Los Angeles Convention Center this weekend, along with the Industrial District’s Modernica Warehouse Sale and relaunched South Park Artisan and Certified Farmers’ Market.
Bored this weekend? It’s your own fault.
As part of the Downtown Open House, UCLA Extension is offering free one-hour mini-lectures at the Figueroa Courtyard office complex (3rd and Figueroa) from 10:00am to 5:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, June 7th and 8th.
Parking is free, but also a short walk up from the 7th/Metro subway station.
Some topics include:
- Getting Started as a Writer
- Social Networking
- Condominium and Homeowners’ Associations
- Multicultural Literature for Children
- Crisis Management
- Strategic Human Resources
- Investing the Warren Buffet Way
Visit uclaextension.edu/figcourtyard for the complete schedule.
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Wow. checked out the brockman. Very nice building! 7th st has a lot of potential, as does south park. it is also only 1 block from the nearest subway stop, and closer to the FiDi, which makes it potentially BETTER than south park.
There were a ton of people on the downtown streets this weekend. It is so easy to visualize DTLA’s massive potential when the streets are bustling on a Saturday. I took the metro, and the train’s seating capacity was almost full. Very cool!
Rents are going up up up, and ownership prices is going down. Price per sq ft is 490 and dropping! If Brockman comes down to around 400$/sqft, I might just make the plunge. I don’t want to take the plunge, but with prices like that, and rents staying high, I would be an idiot not to take it!
Don’t forget to visit my building!
From my blog…just in time for Sunday Tours:
Do you want to visit Pacific Electric today?
The update from 3 AM:
The courtesy patrolman and I visited Art the Ass at 4:12 this morning. I felt the CP needed to see what we are faced with on a regular basis. I knocked on the door, Art answered. I said it’s 4 in the morning, your party started at 2, your guests are gone, turn off your stereo please.
“I’ll turn it down” he says.
“No, Art - turn it off. You turn it down we still hear the bass. It is time to turn your stereo off” I say.
“It is my laptop” he responds.
G: “I don’t care, turn it off”
A: “The street noise is louder than my music”
G: And, since 2004 I’ve been able to get a good night’s rest. Turn off your stereo
A: I’ll turn it do….
G: You need to turn it off.
Art then looks pleadingly to the CP, hoping for some kind of relief.
CP: Art, it’s 4 a.m. these people need to rest.
Alex arrives on scene…
Alex: “we can hear your music through the wall. If we didn’t do you think we’d be up?”
Art: I’ll turn it down.
G: You need to turn it off.
I begin to repeat this phrase as Art all of the sudden doesn’t understand what I’m asking. Sure the music is playing off his laptop, but he’s hooked up to a sound system. The sound system is right up against our wall. The bass travels through our wall like it’s a flimsy Ikea lampshade.
The music stayed down for 15 minutes after we left. It played for the rest of the night. And, 9 minutes before my alarm clock is supposed to go off…Art’s thump-thump music continues to flow as if he’s been partying since it was 1999.
Street noise doesn’t phase us. The only thing that really would get me out of bed (prior to Art’s arrival to Pacific Electric Lofts) was a person screaming violently, and the occasionally (like once a year occasional, check my blog) drunken party participant. What Art is being allowed to get away with is unreasonable.
Art Levin’s is in unit 614 at the Pacific Electric Lofts. Located at 610 S Main Street (6th/Main)
Today is the last day of the Downtown Living Weekend, and Pacific Electric has an open house. I strongly encourage everyone to come check out our building, the roof, and eat the cookies. Stop by Art’s place, knock on the door and introduce yourself. Let him know you’ve been reading about him on the web, and you were interested to meet the guy in person.
I’m sure he’d appreciate getting to know more downtown neighbors.
You can visit me at the Metro booth at the Downtown Living Weekend. I didn’t get a lot of visitors yesterday, but those I did see…was great.
For more Art the Ass stories, which are all sadly very true, visit my website!
Ginny you are too funny, but seriously that is a problem and people need to be put in their place.
Maybe he was high or something :)
maybe…but it looks like there’s nothing that can be done about it. Hopefully and unfortunately we will be moving to a different downtown building in mid-July. The unfortunate part - it will be July and I’ll be 8 months pregnant.
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