Bryan Glenn Bryan Glenn is a senior director of the Charles Dunn Co.

LOS ANGELES—Koreatown is poised to become a core L.A. market, according to Bryan Glenn, senior director of the Charles Dunn Co., who says that the market has already shifted from gentrifying to future core. In the last two years, investment in the Downtown Los Angeles-adjacent market has soared, with major sales (we all remember TruAmerica's record-breaking acquisition of the Vermont) and unyielding demand. Today, investment in the market is hotter than ever. To find out where Koreatown is today, if it is too late for investors to break in and where the market is headed, we sat down with Glenn for an exclusive interview. Here, he gives us an inside look at the market.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.