See, Mom! It really IS cool to be in downtown LA these days. Even the NY Times says so. The Arts District is taking off in lots of ways, with a lot of interesting projects, restaurants, galleries, events and much else.
The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency has had a big piece of this too, working closely with the area’s Business Improvement District on numerous projects, including the recently opened LA Cleantech Incubator and much else. Now, they just need to get some more interesting cleantech startups based there.