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The area to the east of Downtown Los
Angeles that borders Alameda Street to the west and Temple street to
the north with the LA River along the east and 7th Street
on the south is known as the Los Angeles Arts District. The Arts
District was once known as the Warehouse District because of the many
old and industrial style warehouses that line the streets.
During the 1970s, the buildings in the
Arts District of Los Angeles began to become very popular to the
artists in the community who renovated the buildings into art lofts.
This illegal use of an artist space as a combined living quarter was
made legal in 1981 with the passing of the Artist in Residence (AIR)
ordinance. The new ordinance allowed the former railroad buildings
to be used as residential spaces and thus the Arts District was now a
legal place for artists to live and work.
Over time, the Arts District rentals
have been redeveloped by modern developers and real estate
professionals and the neighborhood now attracts wealthy residents.
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) moved
into the Arts District in Los Angeles in 2000 and became an anchor
for the neighborhood. The school is located in the 1907 Santa Fe
Frieght Depot which was originally designed by Harrison Albright and
has now been placed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The addition of the Southern California Institute of Architecture has increased the cultural appeal of the Arts District making the area even more desirable than ever before. Gentrification of the Arts District has caused many of the original artists that lived in the neighborhood to move and the character of the Arts District has since become an area of higher wealth than it once was. |
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