LA Councilman introduces motion to fix abandoned high-rise development in downtown

At least 27 floors of the deserted three-building project were covered with various multi-color tags. In a tweet sent on Jan.31, the Los Angeles Police Department stated it has teamed up with the district representatives to develop a plan to secure the property. Jeff Nguyen reports.

[@major_miniatures]

It brought the buildings value up. And the surrounding area! It’s a tourist attraction now.

[@jayhubble8731]

Looks like its all by the same artiste. Sure this isnt a stunt to force the crappy building back to the lenders?

[@patrickkeane4507]

Chinese developers should not even be allowed to build here in the first place

[@vajoynus]

​@@davidhays2846 no commies!

[@jonmitchell9019]

@@davidhays2846 No only people that should be allowed to that is people from this country. China won't let Americans do the same. Moron.

[@Zergcerebrates]

​@@vajoynus Racist much? Not every Chinese person is a communist.

[@Zergcerebrates]

So you're being discriminatory, what happened to freedom and free market?

[@vajoynus]

@@Zergcerebrates commies don't have feelings. No commies!

[@allenn7955]

If you put the homeless in there with no running water, that means no toilets/showers... Imagine the stench that's gonna produce if you have hundreds in there

[@shelbynamels973]

How can a building, originally estimated at a billion dollars and for the most part already finished, require another billion dollars to complete?? Somebody make the math make sense.

[@panch0bill]

Huizar got indicted and scared the investors off

[@terryhenderson424]

Cant this high rise be turned into affordable housing? Better yet a mix of affordable housing, low income housing, and housing for those who have come in off the streets?

[@terryhenderson424]

@@BettyBlack99 The demographics of the homeless are quite diverse. The most visible homeless tend to have both substance use/ abuse and mental health issues. If you were to turn the building into a mixed income building which included homeless or formerly homeless in permemant housing, there would still be a large enough applicant pool fro which to be choosey. I wasn't thinking in terms of shelter beds nor even particularly traditional housing. And yes, we definitely need rehab beds. But more than a mere 10, 20, 30, or even 90 day spot. We need 12 to 36 months of post de-tox, residential rehab slots available; or at least sliding scale, sober living residences with at least some level of case management available. Most likely we need a mix of models including some housing first slots.

[@sailingaeolus]

LA is a sheet hole.

[@LKG31o]

HOPES is everywhere!!

[@sleepyblue8]

I’ve been seeing it everywhere!

[@izzyn4315]

@@sleepyblue8I think it’s a female

[@CLNSL8]

If the chinese developers are going to fix the situation can't the city or state just eminent domain those buildings basically taking away the ownership if they don't follow the rules

[@MikeBoss303]

😂😂 you can’t build a huge building and abandon it and expect it to just sit there unbothered!!!!!! No one should be upset by this lol it is what it is. Bad Bad planning by the people who built it and the city of LA.

[@gotnocontrolpodcast]

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[@lmando4209]

Subd For The Culture 💯✌

[@rnettles6241]

It's a far sight better than the smug Grammy Awards. The graffiti artists are awesome and they give LA some much needed class.

[@Modernaire]

Much-needed class? Are you serious. Do you enjoy popular music or are you one of those that like those underground real hip-hop artists granted popular music right now is not so hot, to put that mildly.

[@youwontlikemysteeze2945]

frankly, I think the local politicians and gov't agencies should be held accountable. US land should not be sold to foreign countries....ever.

[@supertec2023]

Make them clean it up and they don't get to go home until it's done with materials paid out of their own pocket

[@rhi4288]

Why are these ugly buildings getting build only to abandoned needs to be the bigger issue … the graffiti is just the symptom of the problem

[@StephenDavis-vh4oc]

Turn it into a homeless shelter.

[@leilanilamour5173]

Turn it into affordable housing and get people off the streets.

[@First1ToComment]

lol that's not gonna work 1.5 billlion dollar project for the homeless in the heart of dtla? I'll be homeless to get a high rise apartment across from crypto arena 😂

[@First1ToComment]

@@mandoh323😂 for realzzz

[@mehg8407]

@@First1ToComment It's 1.5 billion because they planed to add luxury fixtures etc. De Leon and the rest of the council are corrupt. They can easily use imminent domain and finish the project much less. They can then turn it into affordable housing. They won't because they most likely are getting some bribes from developers.

[@istanbuloski]

@@First1ToCommentthey could sell those apartments to wealthy people and use the profits to build affordable housing in other areas.

[@izzyn4315]

Affordable housing for the hardworking , tax paying , and double and triple job having families, not for those who are drugged out and wouldn’t even appreciate that apartment.

[@jaimebravo4789]

LA City council can put any motion they want but they new about this along time a go and did nothing about it and now crying

[@YaThinKnow]

Seize the property for eminent domain, and make it a low income shelter, with full onsite services funded by all that bond money!

[@foreverpatriot77]

THANK YOU GOV. NEWSOM AND MAYOR BASS!!!😅😅😅

[@jonmitchell9019]

Thats what happens when you let people from other countries start projects.

[@stevenjohnson8507]

So many of America's largest cities are disgusting.

[@JohnDoe-rk9bx]

Well another reason not to allow China to do business here!

[@migzz7976]

There’s your answer to all the homeless in the area sitting right in front of you de lyin

[@randyboles7928]

This is a very bad joke!!!

[@ramilleallen1101]

kevin the bigot deleon

[@edger433]

someone in China did that "project" on purpose.

[@jonmitchell9019]

Yeah I think when anyone builds something its on purpose.

[@christinadaly7743]

LA over paid civil servant introduces motion ? someone is lining that civil servant's pockets ! disgusting garbage

[@thegazetteyt]

It's amazing that the graffiti is what makes a billion dollar abandoned high-rise an "eyesore" and not the abandoned high-rise itself. SMH

[@e5toro7008]

CHAKA

[@rgg7260]

dudes are bored stiff that are tagging, they need to dig deep down inside themselves and direct their art into something that can be sold online for instance...they just don't have a vision, a map on how to go about it...a retraining, reeducation method needs to be applied to these dudes...it must be so frustrating living in downtown... as a 12 yrs old i would ride my bike miles away to explore in Jefferson area so glad we only spent 6 years in the that zip code. lucky to have fine neighbors , then went south to OC where i had more breathing room...

[@Mauiwowie05]

How about letting people move in instead of Chinese companies

[@panch0bill]

Didn’t this all go downhill once Huizar got indicted?

[@FreddyD177]

Bro just pay them what the china developers paid and take it back let someone else take over and buy it and take over

[@doughuntlove1569]

Lol 😂 abandoned sky scrapers w homeless all over

[@agustdan6599]

LA's largest paint canvas.

[@quetate206]

Over 1 billion dollars 😅😅😅😅

[@fernandoespiritu4814]

Keep the graffiti it'll be a testament to poor land development by politicians

[@Modernaire]

It goes beyond land development. It’s a soft on vandalism, soft and crime soft on graffiti

[@migzz7976]

And 4 you get fined more

[@foreverpatriot77]

FORGET PROP. 1..😅😅😅

[@Thepoetjewel]

And it only took the courage and artist of this young man to bring about the corruption the city had in its land Cninese Communist owning a building in this mass so they can profit in their country. Hello house the needy, put awesome resources for the youth and job training.

[@Modernaire]

These are Vandals, although granted in fairness, graffiti colorful art can be sometimes interesting, open to interpretation, however, it’s straight up vandalism. It should be noted, unless you forgot that real talented artist that put their heart into developing their skills and paint these beautiful murals depicting people scenes, often get vandalized by these very graffiti artist. Then people like celebrate them, this is not courage. This is cowardly, ruction and oppression, and an attempt to bring down progress. This affects an oppressive communities because it creates BLIGHT. It’s a chain of events of several problems that the city has created for itself, and the attempts of saying they’re actually progressing. You didn’t see this when the financial district was developed, you saw buildings funded, created and completed and still stand beautiful today. Yes, the problem is the developer, and what appears to be special deals Made with city mayors and leaders before and currently, but it also shows the vandalism problem that we have in Los Angeles that is making the city grotesque.

[@alexgray8804]

hope with the topper

[@theotheleo6830]

The guy at the end complains that thousands of vacant rooms could be used to house the homeless. But what rooms? They're just floor after floor of empty concrete that'll take a billion dollars to complete. And even if it is somehow completed, who in their right mind would want homeless drug addicts and mentally ill living in their newly built multi-billion dollar skyscrapers? They'll trash the place and set it on fire.

[@Juliovee123]

Put the homeless in there Also who is Chaka ?

[@Modernaire]

He was a nuisance back in the day that’s all he spent his time is putting Chaka all over the city, vandalizing it. It became such a serious problem. If you do your own research and look up the story behind that loser. It inspired more losers to go around, vandalizing the rest of Los Angeles.

[@lelandpmorrill]

😂😂😂😂😂 Love it!!!! Gonna go tomorrow n take pix!!!! What was that coffee shop???❤❤❤

[@georgecuster527]

This is not art .

[@minicova]

Beautiful Crime❤ 🎨 Well done writers of the streets! Free Art!!

[@taytrong]

Thank you artists, this is why I moved into downtown. It would mean alot to me if every surface of those buildings get tagged.

[@Modernaire]

Yeah, you wanna destroy downtown LA the financial district it’s all it all means capitalism to you as some evil thing. You like to see blight. Do you want to see more blighted communities, oppression disintegration and dystopia. That’s where you frolic that’s why there are people like you that like that Vandalism and celebrate it.

[@jayhubble8731]

One artist did all this work. Look closely. Something else at play here

[@Modernaire]

Apparently the sensors don’t like that I pointed out the anti-high-rise, anti-financial district anti-downtown LA this comment is. How anti-capitalist.. But those same vandals and I repeat it, they say vandals they are not s, and from someone coming from someone who went to a fine arts, college, that’s what they really are vandalize, poor communities, and oppress them in the process. Graffiti vandalism is a form of oppression and self oppression. Self oppression from members of the same community, and oppression from outside silver spoon, little so-called tigers, coming into these communities into downtown to deface. Working poor, still living downtown Los Angeles. It’s all not just rich people effluent gentrifiers.

[@Modernaire]

@@jayhubble8731 one vandal? What else does that play here? What are you suggesting? I’m curious?

[@taytrong]

that would make it more awesome unless money is being exchanged to bring attention to this $1.5 bln Chinese ponzi scheme@@jayhubble8731

[@BobSmith-yo6ib]

Everyone saying put homeless in there. It's uninhabitable in its current state. Chinese firm ran out of money and is trying to sell but no takers.

[@rnettles6241]

"Tagger Towers" In the heart of LA.

[@claesvanoldenphatt9972]

I just love the kooky neologisms of graffiti artists. ‘Sorak’ is a great name.

[@Modernaire]

Graffiti vandals. No different than the names and monikers given to gang members.

[@shelbynamels973]

I didn't know guys like Ronek, the graffiti podcaster, even existed. He is an enabler and abetter. He should be indicted on thousands of counts of conspiracy.

[@truthseek3017]

It looks cool, keep it.