7101 Sepulveda Bl. has been a blighted property for at least a decade.

I wrote about it in previous posts.

Tragically, or amusingly, this once pristine office tower and adjoining asphalt parking lot was the subject of Ed Ruscha’s art. He made aerial photographs in 1967 that today sell for tens of thousands of dollars. In 2014, the photograph below was on sale for $8,500.

It’s a characteristic of LA that money and fame are the only values that matter. The reality of the human condition of this city, even when it exists in poverty, despair, violence and suffering, cannot move our public officials to action.

The condition of this crime infested, unsanitary, disgusting property is appalling, but it typifies the dysfunction and deafness of the city of Los Angeles which does not respond to anything affecting common folks who have to live, work and walk past two decades of unattended to blight.