tenten opens largest dtla rooftop

TENTEN Wilshire, a luxury building in downtown Los Angeles that has always embodied the “Live, Work, Play” under one roof mentality, just opened 1027 Wilshire, an expansion to the current building, 1010 Wilshire, which is located just across the street.

This expansion adds 376 new luxury living/workspaces and many new amenity features including the largest rooftop with green space in the United States.

The 88,000 square feet rooftop features over 350 mature trees, a walking path, dog park, indoor gym & outdoor fitness stations, rooftop bar, grill stations with seating for outdoor gatherings, game areas, and pool area with nearby private cabanas and fire pits.

The building also includes a main ground floor restaurant & bar, coffee shop, lower-level spa, convenience store, and an expanded business services area. A portion of the roof will be reserved for residents only and the remainder will be open to the community by reservation.

The new expansion improves the “TENTEN Life” and positions the building as a place that brings together working professionals from downtown and members of the local community for both business networking and leisure activities. “We are thrilled to be opening the expansion on TENTEN Wilshire,” says Rahim Amidi, CEO and developer of TENTEN Wilshire and The Amidi Group. “Our hope is that this location becomes the community hub for Downtown Los Angeles and the greater Silicon Beach community. We want to see families, entrepreneurs, local artists, and more coming together at our building to create a real sense of community and purpose for Los Angeles.”

In addition, The Amidi Group’s global incubator, Plug and Play will be located at the 1027 Expansion and will have 100 units for office spaces. Currently, they are accepting applications for their Corporate Innovation Program and awarding 10 startups free office space for six months. “The opening of 1027 is an extension of 1010 Wilshire and the TENTEN Life mentality. It’s about building community and bringing entrepreneurship and investments back into the city to help us revitalize and recover from the effects of the pandemic,” says William Chun, who most recently served as Deputy Mayor of Economic Development for Mayor Eric Garcetti. “The TENTEN communities have always been the home to entrepreneurs across technology, entertainment, and vital industries. In fact, TENTEN also housed many traveling healthcare professionals who were critical to the recovery of our city during this time. We look forward to this expansion and the promise it holds for Los Angeles.”

The TENTEN lifestyle includes living space with property amenities that are convenient for both day-to-day life and business. Both buildings also include large conference and meeting rooms, theater screening rooms, and regularly hosts community events. The 1010 Wilshire building also features a rooftop private helipad. The TENTEN buildings are located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The properties are just a few minutes away from dining, shopping, and entertainment venues, as well as the business and entertainment industry districts. 1010Wilshire.com

3. Mentally Ill Vagrants Well, here’s something that’s not going away anytime soon. It’s a 100-year-old problem that seems to be getting worse. And if you ask the people who live Downtown, some districts are just better than others. The reality is, while living Downtown, you will be exposed to the mentally ill. You might even be traumatized by some of their behavior at one time or another.

The trick to avoiding trauma is to avoid living in areas that have high transient ratios. This will determine whether you’re going to see one vagrant or whether you’re going to see dozens. For instance, if Bunker Hill is where you’ve made your home, chances are you’ll be exposed to museums and acceptable dining way before you’ll ever come across a hobo. Not to say you’ll never see a hobo on Temple or First Street, but we think there’s something about the climb up Bunker Hill that just sways the hobos away.

There aren’t the same amenities for the hobos in specific areas like Bunker Hill and the Arts District that attract the transient population. For example, the Historic Core might fill with five to ten to twenty, sometimes 30 mentally ill transients on every block, while Chinatown will hardly see a vagrant ever.

Typically, areas where happy hours and mega parties, bus stops, open trash cans, dark enclaves, and warm, wide streets coupled with people willing to share with the less fortunate can be the determining factor. Skid Row is known for its tremendous humanitarian outreach. So the largest population of needy people may frequent the area for its life-giving social services, shelters, and a rotating cast of caregivers. Still, even this area seems poorly equipped when it comes to developing stand alone mental health facilities.

South Park has invested heavily in a dynamic security team that seems to be everywhere simultaneously, while the Historic Core appears to have fumbled the mentally ill, transient ball.

Bordering the unhoused capital of America and embracing the intoxicating debauchery of Spring Street Strip probably doesn’t help lessen the vagrant to tax payer ratio of the Historic Core. There are more reasons for the underserved population to dwell in this area than most the others, ranging from subsidized housing, access to metro stations, easily accessible trash cans to a high concentration of compassionate business owners and party-goers on any given day. Shade trees and safety in numbers may attract some; this district also has the most vagrant “celebrity sightings,” with many of the same transients touching down day after day at their favorite posts.

What can we say about traffic that hasn’t already been said? We recommend drivers go with the flow. That doesn’t mean stopping at waiting for the lane next to you to clear up, and it doesn’t mean driving too fast and putting other drivers in danger. It doesn’t mean it’s okay to get all bent out of shape to the point of road rage because you think you own the road, and everything is always supposed to go perfect every time you get behind the wheel.

Learn the freeways! Certain junctions will get clogged from time to time, and knowing those times, is what’s going to keep you out of traffic.

Also, knowing what alternate routes to take besides our rush hour traffic lanes can help you get to your destination quicker. This could take years to learn, but it’s worth it. Construction can always be a factor, so the best advice to counterbalance this pet peeve is to be patient and figure out what roads, freeways, and oneway streets are clear to use, at whatever time you may need them. Or talk radio.

How in the heck is the price of gas so high Downtown?

You can go to a gas station anywhere within the freeway borders of the city, and they will charge what seems a 20-30% mark up. What are they putting in their gasoline, gold?

Yet, drive east, and the price of a gallon begins to stabilize. Penny pinchers choose Valero on Alameda and forth, while true OGs choose Arco on Valley Blvd in El Sereno. Echo Park has long been gasoline gentrified so don’t try it, while Expo/USC Figueroa stations keep their price of gas moderately low to help out students, no doubt. #SurvivingDTLA