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The California Mart was built for Harvey and Barney Morse, two brothers from New York City who started a clothing factory in Downtown Los Angeles in the early 1960s. [2] [3] [4] The three 13-story buildings were designed in the modernist architectural style. [5] [6] [7]
Victor Adding Machine Co. was a fledgling company in 1918 when the operator of a chain of meat markets gave a Victor salesman $100, intending to buy an adding machine. Instead, he got 10 shares of the company's issued capital.
Ground was broken for One Wilshire in 1964, and the building was completed in 1966 [2] at 624 South Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, on the far eastern end of Wilshire Boulevard. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The high-rise was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill [ 4 ] and built by Del E. Webb Construction [ 9 ] to be a standard office building [ 2 ...
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of the city of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi (15.1 km 2 ) [ 3 ] area. As of 2020, it contains over 500,000 jobs and has a population of roughly 85,000 residents, [ 4 ] with an estimated daytime population of over 200,000 people prior ...
777 Tower (originally known as Citicorp Center and also known as Pelli Tower) is a 221 m (725 ft), 52-story high-rise office building designed by César Pelli located at 777 South Figueroa Street in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, California.
As Los Angeles continued to grow, so did Robinson's business and in 1914 it announced its construction of a new $1,000,000, (~$22.5 million in 2023) seven-story flagship store with over nine acres (400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2)) of floor space, along the south side of West Seventh Street stretching alone the complete block between Grand and ...
The historic Central Library Goodhue building was constructed in 1925 and is a Downtown Los Angeles landmark. [5] The Central Library was designed by the architect Bertram Goodhue . [ 6 ] The Richard J. Riordan Central Library complex is the third largest public library in the United States in terms of book and periodical holdings.
The Homer Laughlin Building, at 317 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, is a landmark building best known for its ground floor tenant the Grand Central Market, the city's largest and oldest public market that sees 2 million visitors a year. [3]