It's great to be here in downtown LA today, which is the hottest real estate market in the nation.
The service launches Thursday in areas west of the 405 freeway including Santa Monica, Venice and West LA. Lyft plans to soon expand to West Hollywood, Downtown LA and Silverlake.
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This is not to say that downtown LA has all of a sudden become as attractive and walkable a downtown as the likes of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, or Boston.
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"To us it just looked like somebody came along the surface of Mars with a jackhammer and lifted up the sidewalk that you might see in downtown LA at a construction site, " he joked.
Not to mention that, from downtown LA, one is only about 8 miles from Hollywood, 10 miles from Beverly Hills, and 15 miles due West to the Pacific Ocean and its assortment of beaches and tourist traps in Santa Monica, Manhattan Beach, and the like.
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Mr. WILLIAM BRIGHTON (Homeless): What they're doing is they're moving suburbia LA back downtown, and in a way it's unfair to a lot of homeless people who have become accustomed to calling downtown, the streets, their home, because they can't afford anything else.
But the 92121 zip code--located some 25 kilometers north of downtown, east of the rolling mesas of La Jolla--boasts 89 biotech companies, the most densely packed cluster in the U.S., says Juan Enriquez, director of the Life Science Project at Harvard Business School.
Conversely, AEG is proposing a new stadium which would essentially be located right in the heart of downtown Los Angeles right next to Staples Center and LA Live.
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La Vallee is just 20 minutes from downtown Paris.
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On Saturday, 150 years later, Hayes-Bautista is scheduled to participate in a Cinco de Mayo celebration at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a Smithsonian affiliate in downtown Los Angeles.
La Cigale (open Monday through Saturday, 6 pm until late), located in downtown Buenos Aires and run by French expats, attracts a trendier crowd and features a psychedelic-styled bar area downstairs and an intimate concert area upstairs.
Conversely, downtown Los Angeles is in the midst of a revival which has only been accelerated by the creation of LA Live.
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