Los Angeles' new 'Historic Core' is the best place to find non-traditional -- but very desirable -- housing.
"Most surprising of all, given many people's view of downtown as a dead zone after dark and on weekends, is what's happening in the vacant landmark buildings of the recently named Historic Core, a 36-block area bounded by 3rd and 9th streets on the north and south and Main and Broadway on the east and west, where much of the city's commerce once got done. Along Spring and Main and other streets, abandoned offices on the floors looking down on skid row's sidewalks are being gutted and reinvented as living space. To a growing slice of the renter world, this weary section of downtown has become the best place in L.A. to find untraditional digs."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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