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The Kress store in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in. That event helped save it from demolition 45 years later. In 1964, Genesco, Inc., acquired Kress. The company abandoned its center-city stores and moved to shopping malls. Genesco began liquidating Kress and closing down the Kress stores in 1980.
The building was used for mail order until 1992, when Sears closed the distribution center and sold the building. While Sears still operated a retail store on the ground floor until 2021, the rest of the enormous complex remained vacant. The 1,800,000-square-foot (170,000 m 2) complex has been the subject of several renovation proposals since ...
Southern end of Santee Alley. The Los Angeles Fashion District, previously known as the Garment District, is a business improvement district (BID) in, and often cited as a sub-neighborhood of, Downtown Los Angeles. The neighborhood caters to wholesale selling and has more than 4,000 overwhelmingly independently owned and operated retail and ...
The May Company Building on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles, a.k.a. Hamburgers/May Company Department Store [1] and the May Department Store Building, later known as the California Broadway Trade Center, was the flagship store of the May Company California department store chain. It is a contributing property to the NRHP -listed Broadway ...
S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Los Angeles, California) 2 of 5. 629 South Broadway. S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Los Angeles, California) 3 of 5. 5350 Wilshire Boulevard. S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Los Angeles, California) 4 of 5. 4601 South Broadway. S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Los Angeles, California) 5 of 5. 6608 Hollywood Boulevard.
Aon Center is a 62- story, 858 ft (262 m) Modernist office skyscraper at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, California. Site excavation started in late 1970, and the tower was completed in 1973. Designed by Charles Luckman, the rectangular bronze-clad building with white trim is remarkably slender for a skyscraper in a seismically ...
Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper complex in Downtown Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, in Los Angeles, California. It comprises South and North towers, which are joined by a three-story glass atrium . The project received the 1986–1987 and 2003–2004 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Office Building of the Year Award ...
In Skid Row, a 19-story residential tower for homeless people will offer gym, cafe, art studio. Doug Smith. June 5, 2024 at 6:00 AM. "We're trying to make our little corner of the world look and ...