Amazon warehouses can deliver orders in one or two hours to much of Los Angeles. This is where families across the dense New York City metropolitan area are getting their essential household shopping done. With the Atwater Village warehouse and three other similar facilities in the Los Angeles area, Amazon Prime Now can deliver orders within a one- or two-hour time frame to a large swath of Los Angeles County. Many cities are razing downtown shopping centers from a bygone era to make way for hotels, office buildings and new housing developments. ‘Now that this other itch is scratched, maybe I’ll sit outside with a newspaper.’ ”Ms. Phillips is a Wall Street Journal staff reporter in Los Angeles.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2017 02:03 UTC