The Wholesale District or more recently the Warehouse District, of Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 is a group of warehouses located in the southeast part of Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area...

. Most of the warehouses are industrial in nature and serve the greater Los Angeles area. Few people live in this neighborhood now, though at one time the area had a substantial African-American population. The warehouses are located along the BNSF and UPRR rail lines, which run along Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River

Los Angeles River

The Los Angeles River is a river that starts in the San Fernando Valley, in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the western end of the San Fernando Valley, nearly southeast to its mouth in Long Beach...

. Part of the Wholesale District extends into the city of Vernon, California

Vernon, California

Vernon is a city five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, California. The population was 112 at the 2010 United States Census, the smallest of any incorporated city in the state....

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