once in a millenium transformation of a former industrial zone to a people friendly multi-story residential zone along with supporting light rail/subway t

once in a millenium transformation of a former industrial zone to a people friendly multi-story residential zone along with supporting light rail/subway transportation) takes time huh? This only took about 2-3 years in Los Angeles. Many of the former industrial buildings and districts were rezoned and it has directly helped invigorate many areas of downtown which were formerly sparsely utilized. The Arts district has had several recent projects add what amounts to entirely new neighborhoods with hundreds of units and live/work spaces. https://recode.la/about https://recode.la/about Unfortunately due to prop 13, there's still a vast amount of empty lots and unused buildings just wasting space without adding any value to the city or residents. Given the rezoning, it seems to have finally inspired use of some of these buildings but many empty units will still exist until there's incentive to not just horde without use.