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Wurlitzer Building, also known as Apparel Center Building, [2] Anjac Fashion Building, [3] and Hudson Building, [3] is a historic twelve-story highrise located at 814 S. Broadway in the Broadway Theater District in the historic core of downtown Los Angeles.
Wendy Guardado, a Los Angeles activist who helped organize the action, said she had counted nearly 250 businesses nationwide that had closed in solidarity with the movement. Other establishments ...
This is a list of department stores and some other major retailers in the four major corridors of Downtown Los Angeles: Spring Street between Temple and Second ("heyday" from c.1884–1910); Broadway between 1st and 4th (c.1895-1915) and from 4th to 11th (c.1896-1950s); and Seventh Street between Broadway and Figueroa/Francisco, plus a block of Flower St. (c.1915 and after).
It was declared Los Angeles Historic-cultural Monument #138 in 1975. [12] At 2300 Central is the now closed Lincoln Theatre, opened in 1926 and was long the leading venue in the city for African-American entertainment. It was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument # 744 in 2003.
In 2005, the Hyatt Regency was renamed the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown. Bally Total Fitness (which occupied the Oshman's space) closed and re-opened as LA Fitness in 2012. In 2013, Macy's Plaza was acquired by Ratkovich, who announced plans to remodel the imposing and aging "monolithic" red brick fortress-like building, with a more open plan.
Downtown Los Angeles's Woolworth's building is made of reinforced concrete in a steel frame and has a Zigzag Moderne facade. [6] It is 60 feet (18 m) by 170 feet (52 m) feet in size. [ 2 ] Inside, the building features two grand terrazzo -covered staircases that connect the ground floor to the basement.
In 1999, the Los Angeles City Council passed an Adaptive Re-Use Ordinance, allowing for the conversion of old, unused office buildings to apartments or "lofts."Developer Tom Gilmore purchased a series of century-old buildings and converted them into lofts near Main and Spring streets, a development now known as the "Old Bank District."
The continuous portion of 6th Street ends at the downtown Los Angeles-Eastside Los Angeles border, where through traffic continues onto Whittier Boulevard via the 6th Street Viaduct, a 3,500 foot (1.1 km) viaduct that spans numerous train tracks, the Los Angeles River, and SR 101. 6th Street also continues as a discontinuous local road for ...