To be fair, downtown Los Angeles was dying 20 years ago. Even on the busiest of days, it was dead there. There's nothing at ground level like there is in other

To be fair, downtown Los Angeles was dying 20 years ago. Even on the busiest of days, it was dead there. There's nothing at ground level like there is in other cities. And no one takes mass transit so you don't have people walking around. The other problem is that there aren't any dense neighborhoods near downtown where people want to live. So no one wants to work there either. The people that worked there drove from the valley or Pasadena or Orange county into locked basement garages in the city and then drove out at the end of the day. The only hope for downtown LA is to convert a giant chunk of it to residential and entertainment and restaurants and put something in downtown to draw people, like a museum or something. The only thing even close to there now is the staples center, but even that doesn't have a neighborhood or stuff to do around it.