Talk:Arts District, Los Angeles

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Gentrification
There should be a section of this article discussing the recient gentrification of the district, and the resulting flight of all the actual artists.
 * I think that's a valid section idea --however it should have good, reliable sources as per WP:CITE. I'm sure the info is out there.  --Bobak (talk) 18:30, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

how does one remove the advertisement references. Citations and articles come LARABA a 20 year community betterment organization in the arts district. More edits to come, but this is the true history and essence of the arts district. the ad is not defined by it's restaurants or gentrification. Thanks! Laura

Re: gentrification

The real estate history of the Arts District in Los Angeles doesn't fit the usual definition of "gentrification." In the 1970's there were millions of square feet of empty commercial and industrial space in downtown LA. Around 1970, artists began to colonize these spaces illegally and use them for live in studios. In 1980, in order to legalize these ad-hoc and unsafe residences, the City of Los Angeles created the "Artist in Residence" zoning variation ordinance. The ordinance necessarily included mandated upgrades to the artists spaces, many of which had fire/safety/health issues endangering the (artist) occupants. It also enabled developers who wished to rehab or create new or old studios that were now legal. These developments, with their increased safety amenities, raised the retail rental rates from 10-30 cents a sq ft to about 65 cents a sq ft in the early-mid 1980's.

In the late 1980's and through the 90's several (about 20) large artist loft projects were developed from empty industrial buildings, including The Brewery, 900 East 1st St, Citizens Warehouse, 2101 E. 7th St., and Long Beach Ave Lofts, with rents ranging from 65 to 75 cents/ ft. After 2000, developers started converting large office buildings in the area west of the arts district under a new "Live/Work" ordinance. These apartments were marketed as lofts, although they bore little resemblance to the much larger lofts in the industrial district east of Alameda St. Rents in these live/work spaces started in the early 2000's at $1.10 a foot, and over the next 15 years climbed to about $2.50/ft, due mainly to the high demand for the apartments and the increasing purchase price for the undeveloped buildings.

The rapid "loft" development west of Alameda, in which hundreds of thousands of sq ft of heretofore unused commercial space has been converted to live/work apartments, has led to a renaissance in downtown Los Angeles, an area long considered uninhabitable by middle class Angelenos. The increased popularity for downtown residences has continued to put upward pressure on loft rent in the Arts District, pushing rents in some of the older, more authentic artists loft buildings upwards towards $1.50- $2.00/ sq ft., pushing many longtime artist/tenants out of their lofts. W3artcom (talk) 18:24, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

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Companies Based in the Arts District
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8503870/warner-bros-staffers-ski-lodge-memories

As of 2019 Warner Music has announced that they have moved from Burbank to The Arts District of Los Angeles and that has taken place as of this posting.

http://www.wmg.com/news/warner-music-group-plans-move-new-state-art-building-la-arts-district-february-25-and-march-18 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:C600:3C20:4C05:8E83:6160:58E4 (talk) 21:51, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

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Possible violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy
Please note the major expansion of this article on October 15, 2013 by 207.178.200.162. The page existed on April 6, 2013 from which it appears much of this information was copied according to the archived page on the Wayback Machine. It appears to predate the Wikipedia page content. I added a couple newspaper references and started to correct an existing reference when I noticed the similarity. Fettlemap (talk) 00:25, 1 August 2014 (UTC)