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Attention Wilshire/Western Station passengers: Heads up!

Contributed by Wad on April 26th, 2007 at 1:30 am

[tags]los angeles, koreatown, purple line, transit oriented development[/tags]

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The scaffolding is going up around the Wilshire/Western Metro Purple Line Station. Eventually, it is to become Solair Wilshire, a condo/retail development built on top of the station mouth. No link is provided to the site, which only has an interest form and nothing else of useful consumption.

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How Solair is shaping up. Note the scaffolding placed over the escalator. 

In the meantime, take the subway to see the revitalized Ralphs across the street (I contributed the news and photo to Curbed LA earlier this week). Grab some really good grub at the hot case, and drink joe from K-Town’s first Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

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There are 5 Responses to “Attention Wilshire/Western Station passengers: Heads up!”:

  1. I checked out the new Ralphs the other day, very nice. It’s amazing how nasty the trolls on CurbedLA are to Ralphs and Koreatown in general. Who are these people???

    Comment by FredCamino on April 26th, 2007 at 8:22 am »Reply« resta suma

  2. Fred, take anything you read on the ‘net with a grain of salt. The trolls on Curbed are perfect examples of what Urban Dictionary defines as “keyboard warriors”:

    1. A Person who, being unable to express his anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that the Keyboard Warrior would not (for reasons previously mentioned) be able to give form to in real life.

    It really doesn’t matter who they are or what they think in real life.

    Basically, it’s the “South Park”-ization of our culture. It’s being an asshole simply for the sake of being an asshole.

    Comment by Wad on April 26th, 2007 at 3:07 pm »Reply« resta suma

  3. Oh I know all about being an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. ;)

    Comment by FredCamino on April 26th, 2007 at 4:41 pm »Reply« resta suma

  4. this is the scariest thing i’ve ever seen in my life. to escape certain death, i have to run up and down the escalaters and under the insane grid of billion pound pillars being held up by unsecured pencil-thin scaffolding twice a day now.

    its almost bad enough to make me consider taking the toilet- i mean elavator- up to the ground level. almost

    Comment by Matt Walsh on April 26th, 2007 at 5:02 pm »Reply« resta suma

  5. Sweet! Nice to see this project making some progress. With the Mercury about to open across the street, this corner is going to be a really urban spot with the Wiltern.

    I believe that the project at Wilshire /Vermont is also nearly done and move-ins will be starting very soon. Another TOD actually exists!

    Comment by ScottMercer on April 27th, 2007 at 1:12 pm »Reply« resta suma