LA’s Restaurant Boom Needs to Plan For Diversity | Eater LA

"A highly trafficked, tourist-oriented outdoor retail and entertainment complex that presents an inward-facing, stylized 1950s 'Main Street' complete with an iconic marquee, bookstores, ice cream and coffee spots. It draws millions of visitors annually—more than some major theme parks—and functions as a sanitized, curated version of American retail culture: welcoming and familiar to many tourists and wealthier shoppers, but criticized for its insularity, blank exterior walls facing the surrounding streets, and the way a single developer’s choices shape which shops and restaurants are included or excluded." - Farley Elliott