Asian Import company is a consequence of the neighboring rail shipping yard.
Hipsters crossing the river and railroad tracks.
A power substation in the shadow of downtown's financial institutions.
Theater located in the Brewery Arts Complex. This facility has the most tightly knit scene anywhere in this series of burroughs.
Century Fashion is one of four sweatshop style garment makers perched atop a building at the north end of the former Cornfield Park.
Fragments of industry and the transportation infrastructure are omnipresent. Radiating from the intersection of this concrete and steel infrastructure are a plethora of light industrial institutions such as metal fabricators and shipping yards complemented by Asian import warehouses. This kind of urban landscape seems to be a fertile ground for artisic endeavors of many forms. Many artists find inspiration in active and deteriorating industrial relics. Additionally, rough on the edges industrial areas tend to have lower than average rents, as is the case with this region, and can afford large spaces for studios, something which has always been important to the creation of art in Los Angeles.
The most specific of these sites which artists and creative professionals occupy is the Brewery Arts Complex, of which the Harry Mastrogeorge Theater is a part of.
Perhaps more fascinating than this area having a specific scene or industrial identity is how the area is a collection of industries and creative fields which have designated burroughs around Los Angeles. For instance, downtown proper includes Chinatown, The Fashion District, and The Artist District. All of these names imply an industry or populas, however, the area about this infrastructural tangle contains artists, people of asian decent and their industries, a couple of galleries and garmet makers. The tangle of culture, industry and race mimics the tangle of roads rivers and rails.
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