US: ‘Dystopian’ Graffitied Buildings Were Once Meant To Be LAs Tallest Towers Of Luxury Condos
Oceanwide Plaza comprised of three towers and was meant to be a huge development featuring hundreds of luxury condos and a five-star hotel.
The buildings were once set to be the tallest residential towers in the whole of LA, though that never materialized.
When the $1 billion project was set out in 2015, much anticipation rose as to what Chinese-backed developer Oceanwide Holdings would produce.
The development was set to offer jobs to local people while also providing residencies for thousands.
However, Oceanwide Holdings ran out of funding in 2019, and the unfinished buildings have been sat vacant ever since.
Five years after the project was abandoned, the buildings have made headlines as they are now covered in graffiti.
The three towers, which sit across from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, have been spray-painted with colorful block letters that read, ‘Crave,’ ‘Dank’ and ‘Amen’.
Other tags have also been graffitied onto the deserted buildings – a far cry away from what many locals thought the buildings would encompass nowadays.
A Los Angeles Times photographer claimed he recently saw around five young people with backpacks jump the fence around the structure.
“There’s no security. It’s dangerous,” he said.
