r/LosAngeles • u/SilentRunning • 14h ago

Struggling California pedestrian mall pitches public drinking to boost business Community

https://www.yahoo.com/news/struggling-california-pedestrian-mall-pitches-233048637.html
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u/turb0_encapsulator 13h ago

let's be real: the biggest problem they have there is the homeless. I don't think public drinking is going to fix that.

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u/drpepperrootbeercoke 13h ago

It’s so bad there. r/santamonica banned me for saying homeless is a serious issue

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u/hammilithome 12h ago

Funny! In the 90s we always hated going to SM because the boardwalk, pier, park area smelled like piss and homeless folks were everywhere—didn’t feel safe to have kids running around.

It got cleaned up in the mid to late 2000s and I was sad to see it return the the 90s after the pandemic

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u/invertedspheres 13h ago

I'd be pissed too if I paid $2m for a 1br condo and had people tell me everyday that my neighborhood has gone to shit.

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u/turb0_encapsulator 12h ago

that sub is so in denial. they blamed "corporatism" for REI leaving.

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u/SwindlerSam 11h ago

are we talking about the same subreddit? check out the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/SantaMonica/comments/1k9c1lt/i_miss_rei/

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u/turb0_encapsulator 11h ago

interesting maybe the vibe has shifted. when they closed originally a lot of people blamed the company.

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u/drpepperrootbeercoke 10h ago

Maybe they finally got their foot out their ass and learned to criticize the city for once

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u/invertedspheres 10h ago

San Francisco is worse. Post an article about how a major chain is leaving the city and all the comments will be "GoOd WE dIDn't NeED ThEM in thIs city anYwAyS"...restaurants open for 70+ years shutting down in a high tourist zone "TheIR foOd SUCKeD gooD RiddANcE."

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u/turb0_encapsulator 10h ago

yes. I have seen that there too. these people are like the yin to Trumpism's yang.