Shiny New Exterior at the Rosslyn Lofts
Eric Richardson
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Black neeting was removed from the 5th street face of the Rosslyn Lofts today, revealing a shiny restored exterior.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — It's amazing what a little scrub will do for a historic building.
The crew at work on lower floors of the Rosslyn Lofts today began removing the black net that has shrouded the structure for the past month. Unveiled are bright, creamy terra cotta details previously covered in a deep layer of sooty grime.
The transformation becomes even more clear when one looks at the Rosslyn's 1923 annex, located across 5th street. It once matched its 1912 sibling, but today sports a dirty gray instead of the healthy cream color.
Affordable housing provider The Amerland Group began renting lower-floor units in the Rosslyn Lofts building in July. The company was in escrow to purchase the southern annex, but as of blogdowntown's most recent information that deal has not been finalized and the building was no longer in escrow.
Oscar on September 09, 2009, at 10:58AM – #1
Can somebody with a little time in their hands put together a "before/after" compilation? Please? Pretty please? Thank you.
Los Angeles lofts on September 26, 2009, at 03:48PM – #2
It is so nice to see that work is still being put into real estate in Los Angeles. The last 15 years have seen some great developments and taking an older building and reinventing it is what has been so special over that period of time.
Guest on September 08, 2010, at 09:48PM – #3
Ten years ago I was working at a very fancy address, owned by a family with a very famous name. The most senior member of the family and his secretaries were two doors down the hall. He didn't particularly like my apparrel and would constantly leave business cards from his very personal attendant at Saks sitting atop the urinal in the mens room.
Well, you simply haven't lived until you work across the hall from the mob and you get invited for a walk down Main Street one evening and both of you stroll into the lobby of this old hotel and suddenly, he (one of the family's minions) asks you if you want to go up on the roof....
Intuition told me: No Way, Dude. This was a couple of years after I'd discovered that the books were getting cooked. And signaled in no uncertain terms that I wasn't about to participate. So at approximately the time that Wim Wenders was directing his cast and crew at The Million Dollar, there'd be death threats on the answering machine when I got home. As we all know, the LAPD won't do anything to help until you're already dead and so I packed up and left town. I went back not too many years later to listen to Salonen and his band in Disney Hall. And on the evening that I flew back here to my new home, I stopped to see a movie coming in from the airport. I can't repeat the name of the movie; that would be a giveaway. But it won a couple of Academy Awards the next year. Watching it and recognizing the location of the bloody final scene was likely the most ironic moment I've yet experienced.
I really dug the displays gotten up in the corner front window of Barney's New York. For some reason, there always seemed to be used rubbers laying here and there on the sidewalk in front of Saks. Yes, right on Wilshire Boulevard. I mailed one of those business cards to the old fart years later. And on the back I quoted Japhy Ryder: "Register your absence with The Null and Void Trust Company."
Anyone who knows who Japhy is, send me a line and maybe we'll drive on up the ridge and see him some day.
SeanYodaRouse on September 08, 2010, at 11:45PM – #4
Oscar, compare pix 3 with 4 & 5. The difference is striking.