Once a vibrant strip of mom-and-pop shops and tentpole retailers at the center of Los Angeles, Fairfax Avenue’s famed business corridor is now a shell of its former self.
Steps from the Farmers Market and Rick Caruso’s tourist-packed The Grove, the district, home to legendary restaurants like Canter’s Deli and Genghis Cohen, should be thriving — not facing a nearly 20% vacancy rate.
But that’s cruel reality in 2026, say desperate business owners, who are now speaking out about the growing number of blighted, empty storefronts — as leaseholders flee stubbornly high rents at the heart of one of the priciest commercial rental markets in the…
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