Inside Izek Shomof’s downtown Long Beach office-to-resi buy

Can downtown Los Angeles make a comeback? Izek Shomof, who was part of its earlier revival and once called the “King of Spring” because of the developer’s transformation of the Spring Street corridor in the early 2000s, thinks it can. That’s his number one goal, bringing the city back to what it was before the pandemic. Developers and investors need to work with politicians to fix the homelessness crisis, and then they can take back the streets, he said. It is easier said than done.  But in the meantime, he has another project, in another downtown, on his mind.  Shomof […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.