Los Angeles Picks Up The Pace With New Developments And Activities

Los Angeles picks up the pace with new developments and activities.

- Ron Bernthal

As temperatures begin to cool in Los Angeles (average September high temperature is a beautiful 83 degrees), the city hums with activities. The arts scene buzzes with new exhibits at The Broad, The Getty Center, the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where a new $659 building proposal by the award-winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is moving forward.

For sports fans, Los Angeles offers more sports franchises, events and venues than any other city in the world and will host the 2028 Summer Olympics, the third summer Olympics for the City of Angels.

For all leisure and business visitors to Los Angeles County (about 50 million domestic and international visitors annually), there are 88 incorporated cities to explore; dozens of new hotels; dining venues; attractions; new architecturally savvy, mixed-use developments; and perhaps best of all, a terrain that boasts ocean beaches, mountain parks, a famous valley crisscrossed by freeways, fog-shrouded coastal towns under a canopy of palms, and an urban core that boggles the mind with fascinating only-in-L.A. juxtapositions. For me, I listen to Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” or 1970s Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young as I drive anywhere within L.A. County’s 4,084 square miles, loving it all.

All the new building projects in Los Angeles — and there are hundreds — shape the city in better and sometimes not-so-good ways. Google is transforming Howard Hughes’ historic Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista into a state-of-the-art office and production facility, and Apple continues to lease additional office space — just two signs of how tech firms are expanding their presence in Hollywood’s backyard.