USC has been hyping up the construction of the new USC Village for the last several years. It doesn't live up to the hype. It's very underwhelming.
Don't get me wrong, it looks beautiful. It has a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic architecture, but it often just feels very tacky and artificial, almost like an amusement park. It's like Disneyland, but that's bad, since it's supposed to be the authentic feel. It's all very superficial as well, with the architecture being nothing but facades.
The main courtyard area is very quiet, peaceful, and relaxing. But the walkways all are patches of square concrete with grass in between them, making it feel very weird to walk around in the courtyard.
The shopping options are rather lackluster as well. There's a Target and Trader Joe's, but they're both very small and never have anything I'm looking for, I always just go to the bigger Target in Culver City or Downtown. All the other shopping is, well....bleh. Oh, and they have two more Starbucks to add to the fifty others in the area. Yay!
All in all, a big letdown. Not a very exciting addition to the University Park area beyond the initial excitement of something new, and I can't see it's atmosphere and looks withstanding the test of time, since it's all so superficial, tacky, and shoddily...
Read moreSabrina (or whoever she was (she refused to give her name the first 2 times I called) who worked the shift on 9/12 around 7:45 pm until) is a evil, rude, combative, disrespectful employee and has terrible customer service. She is super unprofessional and even hung up the phone on me twice after telling me the driver might not deliver my cookies to me because she didn't feel like jotting down brief instructions to give to the driver when he picks up the order. I ordered the cookies on the company's website, but according to her, door dash is to blame if I don't get my order. Instead of offering to pass along my building instructions, she hung up in my face multiple times. Long story short, the driver came 30 minutes late left the box outside the building for someone to take off with the order. I am highly upset and disappointed with Sabrina, because she declined to assist me when I requested for her to take down simple instructions to give to the delivery man. All of this could have been avoided, but she wanted to be rude and lazy. I will never refer anyone to this location, nor will I ever spend a dime...
Read moreI loved target there Trader Joes there. Amazon hub locker there and many cafe shops , Restaurants Banks Parking , Validation for parking They are so welcoming Very nice, civilised , Polite and the most important thing Diversity like real one like The right percentage from everything , which is very smart and Balanced . This is one of my favourite places in Los Angeles , you can find actives like art and other social thing ( the civil Community ) You can find a church , mosques , Jewish Temples and more … Clean environment, you can move freely , Think freely no Pressure on any point . Open to the sky …tree and greens.. And the most gentle Fountain I’ve n Los Angeles you can set around . And if you walk for minutes out side you find food trucks …I think it’s a dream on the way to be come true if you guys keep going in same pure energy towards humanity even if it’s some time hard put maybe you guys can do it better away better than the others . So far I feel very good to do things there. Be open more as you are and build the village with right true people. Thanks for your efforts. We may...
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