Downtown L.A. building set to go from drug den to luxury inn: A former insurance salesman and his partners plan to transform a boarded-up apartment house they bought last year near Staples Center into a hotel with as many as 60 rooms.

Photo: The developers hope to preserve the exterior brick walls while gutting and rebuilding the rest of the structure into an inn with 45 to 60 rooms, depending on how high they are allowed to build. Credit: Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times

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