The underlying issue here is race. Non-blacks are moving into this black neighborhood and would flood in if more blacks could be pushed out and black crime reduced.
Gentrification means white people are moving in (often led by gays). As property values go up, blacks are pushed out because they can’t keep up financially.
The skyscraper would be located next to the Expo Line, which more people would use if there weren’t so many low lives on it.
Los Angeles Times: Signs of gentrification have been popping up in Los Angeles neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Freeway for several years now.
But what developers want to do at the intersection of La Cienega and Jefferson boulevards would be dramatic even by the standards of the development boom hitting the city.
There, next to an Expo Line station, they want to build a 30-story tower complex that would include upscale apartments, some with floor-to-ceiling views of the Pacific Ocean, Hollywood and downtown L.A., along amenities residents have yearned for: a supermarket, sit-down restaurants and open green space.
Some residents relish the idea of a glittering tower rising from an area of Southwest L.A. that until recently was marked by warehouses, radio transmission towers and strip shopping malls – a sign that their neighborhood has finally arrived.
