After COVID, raids and other blows, DTLA is hurting. But ‘Mr. Downtown’ believes it will rise again

He wore a dark suit with a crisp white shirt and a burgundy necktie, and as he made his way toward me through the late-morning patrons at Grand Central Market, he paused, eyes at his feet. He bent down, picked up a straw wrapper and disposed of it in the nearest trash can, then kept []