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Exclusive | LA’s Fairfax District now a ghost town of empty storefronts — as biz owners blast ‘greedy’ landlords squeezing survivors

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Exclusive | LA’s Fairfax District now a ghost town of empty storefronts — as biz owners blast ‘greedy’ landlords squeezing survivors

Once a vibrant strip of mom-and-pop shops and tentpole retailers at the center of Los Angeles, Fairfax Avenue’s famed business corridor is now a shell of its former self. Steps from the Farmers Market and Rick Caruso’s tourist-packed The Grove, the district, home to legendary restaurants like Canter’s Deli and Genghis Cohen, should be thriving … Read more

The empty storefronts haunting Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade

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The empty storefronts haunting Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade

A Santa Monica product designer is putting hard numbers to what locals have long known in their bones: nearly three in 10 storefronts on the Third Street Promenade sit empty. The designer built an interactive map tracking occupancy along the corridor, and the numbers aren’t pretty — 28.5% of storefronts are vacant, a bleak snapshot … Read more