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L.A.’s. new graffiti wars: A bold generation of taggers hitting high-profile targets
2 months, 1 week ago

L.A.’s. new graffiti wars: A bold generation of taggers hitting high-profile targets

LA Times  

To many, it’s ugly vandalism that blights the city. More recently, they have moved west to several unoccupied Hollywood Hills mansions The graffiti-laden Oceanwide Plaza in downtown L.A. “The reality is that it’s become more brazen, it’s become bigger, it’s become more daring,” said Bruno Hernandez, executive director of the STP Foundation, which gives artists with graffiti backgrounds new opportunities …

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Forget the graffiti. L.A.’s most notorious skyscrapers have a much bigger problem
6 months ago

Forget the graffiti. L.A.’s most notorious skyscrapers have a much bigger problem

LA Times  

It was the graffiti that made the abandoned skyscrapers of Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles infamous. A 2014 architect’s rendering of Chinese developer Oceanwide Real Estate Group’s upscale project across from Staples Center on Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles. Witte said he believes Oceanwide has “negative value because of the scale and the indeterminate amount of work that …

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Tightrope walker is latest problem for downtown L.A.’s graffiti towers
7 months ago

Tightrope walker is latest problem for downtown L.A.’s graffiti towers

LA Times  

Benjamin Schneider, who refers to himself as Reckless Ben on social media, recently walked a slackline strung between two skyscraper towers 40 stories above Figueroa Street in downtown L.A. Add criminal tightrope walking to the list of problems besieging Oceanwide Plaza, the unfinished, bankrupt, vandalized, graffitied towers marring the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. Schneider told The Times on Saturday …

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Graffitied skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles poised for sale
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Graffitied skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles poised for sale

LA Times  

The partially built Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, which was covered in graffiti this year, has been put up for sale and could be sold by fall. “I think there’s a broad range of buyers,” he said, “but the pool of buyers is small because of the size of the project.” Tarczynski is part of a team from real …

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Security guards — not LAPD — to protect graffitied downtown L.A. towers, officials say
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Security guards — not LAPD — to protect graffitied downtown L.A. towers, officials say

LA Times  

Taggers have graffitied many floors of the Oceanwide Plaza towers, which have been empty for several years. The city of Los Angeles no longer has to deploy police officers to guard the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza buildings from graffiti taggers and other trespassers thanks to a new law that allows the city to hire private security guards to watch over the …

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City Council OKs $3.8 million to clean up and secure graffitied downtown skyscrapers
10 months, 1 week ago

City Council OKs $3.8 million to clean up and secure graffitied downtown skyscrapers

LA Times  

The City Council voted Friday to approve $3.8 million to clean up and secure the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper project in downtown L.A. The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to allot nearly $4 million to remove graffiti and secure unfinished downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers that have been heavily tagged in recent weeks. “The purpose of my motion is clear: …

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BASE jumpers paraglide from the top of graffitied DTLA skyscraper in viral video
10 months, 1 week ago

BASE jumpers paraglide from the top of graffitied DTLA skyscraper in viral video

LA Times  

Taggers have graffitied what appears to be more than 25 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for several years. The moribund Oceanwide Plaza project, an unfinished development across the street from Crypto.com Arena, became the source of a new headache for Los Angeles officials this week when multiple people used the high-rise as a launching …

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L.A. joins ranks of cities with ‘ghost towers’ with graffiti-covered Oceanwide Plaza
10 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A. joins ranks of cities with ‘ghost towers’ with graffiti-covered Oceanwide Plaza

LA Times  

L.A.’s Oceanwide Plaza, once planned as a $1 billion mixed-use project, has become a graffiti canvas after sitting unfinished since 2019. “We are in the 21st century.” On and off the stage Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “English,” is on the stage at the Old Globe in San Diego. “The old saying about gaining a second soul when you learn …

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Clean and secure your tagged high-rise or we’ll do it for you, L.A. tells owners
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Clean and secure your tagged high-rise or we’ll do it for you, L.A. tells owners

LA Times  

After six trespassing arrests were made in less than a week related to a heavily tagged unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to order the property owners to clean up the site. California Four more trespassing arrests made at graffitied downtown skyscraper Police arrested four more people at the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza development, …

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Four more trespassing arrests made at graffitied downtown skyscraper
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Four more trespassing arrests made at graffitied downtown skyscraper

LA Times  

Taggers were caught vandalizing the high-rise project in this drone video from Feb. 1, 2024. For the second time in a week, the Los Angeles Police Department announced multiple arrests at a highly visible and graffitied skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. For the record: An earlier version of this story misidentified the abandoned downtown skyscraper targeted by taggers as the …

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LAPD investigating gunfire at graffitied skyscraper in downtown L.A.
10 months, 3 weeks ago

LAPD investigating gunfire at graffitied skyscraper in downtown L.A.

LA Times  

Graffiti appears on more than two dozen floors of Oceanwide Plaza. Gunshots rang out just before midnight Friday at a vacant skyscraper that taggers recently covered in graffiti across the street from Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. Officers responded to Oceanwide Plaza on Figueroa Street late Friday night after receiving a call of shots fired but found …

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Column: Vandalism or street art? What the graffiti-tagged high-rises say about L.A.
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Vandalism or street art? What the graffiti-tagged high-rises say about L.A.

LA Times  

Taggers have sprayed graffiti on what appears to be about 27 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for several years. “I know it’s getting mixed reviews,” Juan deadpanned, before adding, “I’m sure the people who live in the lofts across the street didn’t like getting peeped at!” He continued to crane his neck upward. “You’re …

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Two arrested in connection with tagging graffiti-covered L.A. skyscraper across the street from Grammys venue
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Two arrested in connection with tagging graffiti-covered L.A. skyscraper across the street from Grammys venue

LA Times  

Two people were arrested, cited and released this week in connection with spray painting graffiti across more than two dozen stories of an unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities. On Tuesday around 12:43 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a vandalism call on South Figueroa Street, the site of the unfinished and long-idle Oceanwide Plaza …

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Taggers seen in action at graffiti-covered L.A. skyscraper. Across street in 2 days: The Grammys
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Taggers seen in action at graffiti-covered L.A. skyscraper. Across street in 2 days: The Grammys

LA Times  

Taggers were caught vandalizing the high-rise project in this drone video from Feb. 1, 2024. Taggers clambered over broken fencing and into a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper Thursday afternoon, brazenly adding their own handiwork to the graffiti already covering at least 27 floors of the partially completed structure that sits directly across from Crypto.com Arena at L.A. Live — the …

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