The End of Painted Ads on Hotel Figueroa?

Anyone else think it's odd that Target has advertising on the building in the first place? And a terrace/ balcony in the LA Live complex? Where's the Target store Downtown?

And, on subject, I'll miss the murals if they go, but I've been wondering how long they'd last. The minute the Ritz opens across the street, all the businesses alongside the Figueroa Hotel on Olympic are bound to disappear in favor of higher end retail stores anyhow.

Greensmark writes:

I agree with JM. Target seems to "own" all the advertising around the LA Live area. And, interestingly enough, there is no Target downtown. Funny thing, the girls that work in the management office in my building thought that all the signage meant there was GOING to be a Target down here. So much for clear advertising.

Meanwhile, when the Ritz does open, let us hope that the economy will get going again and that high end retails will start to come back to Downtown. I am so in love with being Downtown, I would like to do all my shopping here.

Food for thought: Does anyone doubt that when the Ritz opens that the Corner of Fig and Olympic will stay the way it is now. If the intended secondary hotel breaks ground two blocks from and across the street from the Ritz, in the coming year, it will also signal the change on that corner as well. Build up, people, build up!!

Grnsmrk~

I was wondering how the Target ad went up so fast, and without the white paint going on first-- thanks for solving the mystery. By the way, fellow downtowners, Target is featured in Times Square as well, with no Manhattan Target store. It's advertising for visitors... & I believe Target is a sponsor of the Grammy Museum. Meanwhile, I lament the passing of the painters' art.