They can't all be Grand Central Market: Does L.A. have too many food halls?

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Does L.A. have too many food halls?

The free-standing collection of eateries at Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade once was stocked with the likes of McDonald’s and Subway. And for years it was enough to attract the tourists and locals that frequent the popular outdoor shopping street.with curated offerings including a tiny restaurant operated by a Michelin-starred chef, which requires reservations.

for them. Their common inspiration is a century-old food hall in downtown Los Angeles that is considered one of the most successful in the country.” which draws about 2 million visitors a year including office workers, downtown residents and tourists. Moses is developing a new food hall in Culver City inside a former newspaper office building completed in 1929 that has elements of Beaux Arts and Art Deco in its design and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Other downtown food halls include the cavernous Taste Food Hall on Figueroa Street that mixes national chains such as burger purveyor Five Guys with local operators, and the smaller Corporation Food Hall on Spring Street with space for just nine businesses. “To get to Dialogue, you walk out of a city parking structure, across an alleyway, and into an ice cream shop whose sticky perfume may remind you of the Santa Monica Pier on a hot July afternoon,” Gold wrote. “You take an escalator to the second level.

California developer Marge Cafarelli estimates that she has had a 35% turnover in tenants since she opened Santa Barbara Public Market five years ago.

 

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We need community kitchens instead.

No not at all when people are poor/homeless/ hungry on the streets ... have u been to skid row latimes

no just too many idiots willing to stand in long lines for their artisanal grilled cheese sandwiches.

There can never be enough food halls.

Nope

No

Yes

Such a first world problem.

Do we have any? By my count OC has more than us

Singapore, a city the size of the SFV, is the world capital of food halls. We barely have a fraction of theirs. So, the answer is 'No.'

you'll never be a ceo

No.

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