You have to go out of your way because nothing upscale is over there. Just missions, police station, and low scale shops, liquer stores, etc... but you only need to walk 1 block east of Staple Center and you begin to see homeless people. By three blocks (east) it lools like that picture I posted. I said thats what it looks like about 3 blocks from staples center, not that that itself is skid row. Skid Row is further down and much worst than that (as you probably know). The entire ground is black like someone spilled tar on the cement from the caked on dirt. The whole area smells like urine. Its terrible. One of the worst places I ever saw in person. Every other person is in a wheelchair or shirtless.
They gentrafied that whole downtown area, its disgusting.
I don't go to LA Live even to the movie theatre because its just a sea of cacs smiling and laughing and blocks away there are people yelling crying bleeding and sleeping on the ground.