76-Story Tower, 732 Condos, Planned For Downtown LA

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A really tall building, with a boatload of condos, is on the drawing board for downtown LA. The LA Times says the building, from developer David Houk, would be LA’s tallest, and would house 732 condos at the corner of Fifth and Olive.

Will it happen? There’s a glut of condos downtown and even Perpetually Upbeat LA Economist Jack Kyser tells the Times, ‘Downtown is overbuilt and some other projects are grinding to a halt.’ Perpetually cheeky blog Curbed LA expresses same in headline: ‘Really Tall Towers Proposed. May Actually Happen.’

Close readers of LA Land will remember we reported all this back on April 23 (truthfully, we linked to LA Downtown News, which had the story). They would have to be extremely close readers of LA Land, because on April 23 the blog existed, but hadn’t yet been linked to LATimes.com.

Comments? Predictions?