213 numbers for Arts District businesses

The Arts District lies east of Alameda Street, on the eastern edge of downtown. It grew up around railroads, warehouses and factories, and when industry moved out, artists began moving into the empty buildings in the 1970s. In 1981 the city's Artist-in-Residence program made it legal for artists to live in the former industrial buildings.

Today live-work lofts and converted warehouses sit beside new apartment buildings, galleries, restaurants and bars, and SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, has its campus on East Third Street.

Numbers that fit

A vanity word, such as ART, LOFT or a studio name, puts the business into the number itself and looks good on a door or a website.

No 213 number belongs to a particular neighborhood. Since the 2017 overlay, 213 numbers go to lines across the whole 213 and 323 area, not just downtown, and a 213 number on a mobile phone works anywhere.