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The company was established in 1904 as the General Roofing Manufacturing Company by George M. Brown in East St. Louis, Illinois, with $25,000 in start-up capital. In 1917, the company restructured, incorporated, and changed its name to the Certain-teed Products Corporation. It began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1918. [1]
In 1982, Getty Oil began construction on the new 10 Universal City Plaza, which would replace the Getty Building as the company's headquarters. Accordingly, in April 1982, the company sold the building to Equitec '81 Real Estate Investors. [9] However, before the new building was completed, in January 1984 Getty Oil was acquired by Texaco.
Builders Emporium was a chain of home improvement stores based in Irvine, California, United States.At the time of its closing in 1993, it had 82 stores in Southern California and an additional 15 in Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas; 4,300 employees in total.
[3] [4] Architectural work was handled by George Nimmens Company. [5] The building was erected in six months, using materials that were all made in Los Angeles County, with the exception of the steel window sashes. [6] To accomplish the feat, the contractor had six steam shovels and a large labor force working night and day shifts.
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SoCalGas will leave its namesake Gas Company Tower at 555 W. 5th St., where it has been a primary tenant since the building was completed in 1991, and move a block north to another skyscraper, at ...
In 2001 the Carlyle Group bought the building for $119 million, [1] and Hines Real Estate Investment Trust in Houston, Texas paid $287 million for One Wilshire in 2007. [3] It sold in 2013 from Hines Real Estate Investment Trust to GI Partners for $437.5 million, the highest price ever paid for an office building in downtown Los Angeles. [3]
The company behind Los Angeles' emergency alert technology said it has added safeguards to prevent further inaccurate wildfire evacuation alerts from being sent to residents amid deadly ...