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Apple Reportedly Eyeing Los Angeles' Historic Broadway Trade Center for Retail and Corporate Campus
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Pretty sure the Louvre is on their list. The glass pyramid would fit right in!
There already is one: https://www.apple.com/fr/retail/carrouseldulouvre/
Residential is a "compatible use" for that area. Furthermore a small residential aspect would allow very private meetings to stay even more private.
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There are still entire states without an Apple retail store. We're spoiled here in Los Angeles.
I count 22 Apple retail stores within a 90-minute drive of downtown Los Angeles, but there's still no store IN downtown Los Angeles. The closest stores are in Beverly Hills to the west or Glendale or Pasadena to the north. They aren't far away as the crow flies, but in L.A. traffic the crow does not fly. Those stores certainly aren't convenient to anyone working or living downtown, so this would be a welcome addition.
I count 22 Apple retail stores within a 90-minute drive of downtown Los Angeles, but there's still no store IN downtown Los Angeles. The closest stores are in Beverly Hills to the west or Glendale or Pasadena to the north. They aren't far away as the crow flies, but in L.A. traffic the crow does not fly. Those stores certainly aren't convenient to anyone working or living downtown, so this would be a welcome addition.
Well, within a 90 minute drive of Downtown you have >15 million people so it's no surprise we have so many stores in the area. If they do put an
Store at that location, it would certainly would put a stamp on the area as a desirable place to live and work. Perhaps that means Trader Joe's will follow close behind (a location at USC will open in 2017).
Like take over the Bradbury Building.
You know it's a better fit. (Throwing little foil origami on the ground)
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Wasn't this used as one of the settings for "Wolf" with Jack Nicholson?
Never truer words spoken.
I live in the Inland Empire (Riverside) and have two choice. I can go to Temecula or Ontario with little difficulty, depending on time of day. Weird that downtown L.A. has no store.
A lot of main streets back then (even before streets were called main street) were called Broadway. There's more than a dozen major ones in major US cities. Most of broadway in New York City has nothing to do with Theater or entertainment. The street gave its name to the district, not the opposite.
Skeptical but could be true.
I live basically next door to this building. A few things. It was just purchased by someone who plans to put 100 million into renovating it and is seeking a tech client. However, the building is still full of old tenants, it literally is a swap meet on the ground floors. If this is happening, it isn't happening soon. They need to renovate the building and those tenants will have to go. There also isn't residential in that building, it's commercial. It doesn't have windows in the interior, the main reason why it can't be residential. The top floors would be office, the bottom some commercial space. The building is huge. My understanding is the new owners are modeling it after a Chelsea Market type feel.
Broadway is in the process of revitalizing. It seems a bit early for Apple to jump in on the area, I would predict 2-3 years as more accurate. But based on the renovation timeline, that could be what they are looking at.
I live basically next door to this building. A few things. It was just purchased by someone who plans to put 100 million into renovating it and is seeking a tech client. However, the building is still full of old tenants, it literally is a swap meet on the ground floors. If this is happening, it isn't happening soon. They need to renovate the building and those tenants will have to go. There also isn't residential in that building, it's commercial. It doesn't have windows in the interior, the main reason why it can't be residential. The top floors would be office, the bottom some commercial space. The building is huge. My understanding is the new owners are modeling it after a Chelsea Market type feel.
Broadway is in the process of revitalizing. It seems a bit early for Apple to jump in on the area, I would predict 2-3 years as more accurate. But based on the renovation timeline, that could be what they are looking at.
One of the biggest corporate "secrets" of Apple is how many full time employees they have scattered across LA and its suburbs in different office buildings from a few thousand feet to tens of thousands of feet.
They follow the old Disney model of hiding the places that gets the work done while sending away fandom public to more high profile spaces like the Apple Retail stores.
Some old time Disney people say that one of the first justifications of Disneyland was to create a diversion from Disney fans from showing up at the Disney Burbank studios and requesting tours.
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Smart real estate developers are buying up ever ghetto housing project and apartment building they can around Broadway now. Many expect a huge gentrification of the area where the low incomes are kicked out and displaced further into South Central. (Cue Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton!)
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Count on huge gentrification and urban displacement in the next year. Pick your side.
They follow the old Disney model of hiding the places that gets the work done while sending away fandom public to more high profile spaces like the Apple Retail stores.
Some old time Disney people say that one of the first justifications of Disneyland was to create a diversion from Disney fans from showing up at the Disney Burbank studios and requesting tours.
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Wow... what an amazing building... I could live there, even without
Smart real estate developers are buying up ever ghetto housing project and apartment building they can around Broadway now. Many expect a huge gentrification of the area where the low incomes are kicked out and displaced further into South Central. (Cue Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton!)
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Count on huge gentrification and urban displacement in the next year. Pick your side.
