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Tallest building constructed in Los Angeles in the 1970s [16] 4 Two California Plaza: 750 (229) Arthur Erickson: 54 1992 Office Tallest building constructed in Los Angeles in the 1990s [17] [18] 5 Gas Company Tower: 749 (228) Richard Keating: 52 1991 Office 77th-tallest building in the United States [19] [20] 6 Bank of America Plaza: 735 (224 ...
The trend toward tall office buildings continued beyond the late 1970s. The 76-story, 287.4 m (943 ft) Columbia Center (originally Columbia Seafirst Center, 1982–1985, Chester Lindsey Architects) is currently the third tallest structure on the West Coast (after the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco). [151]
By the end of the 1920s building boom, several new Art Deco high-rises above 200 feet (61 m) were completed in Seattle, including the Medical Dental Building (1925), Seattle Tower (1930), Roosevelt Hotel (1929), Washington Athletic Club (1930), Textile Tower Building (1930), Harborview Medical Center (1931), and Pacific Tower (1933). [2]
L.A. County has agreed to buy the Gas Company Tower, a prominent office skyscraper in downtown L.A., for $215 million in a foreclosure sale.
U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles was sold to OUE Ltd (OUE), a diversified real estate owner, developer and operator group, in 2013. OUE, a Singapore-listed company run by Indonesian billionaire Stephen Riady, acquired the tower and other related assets for $367.5 million.
When completed, it became the tallest residential tower in Los Angeles and the tallest residential tower in California. [4] It surpassed the 58 floors 647 ft (197.2 m) Millennium Tower in San Francisco and 820 Olive Tower 637 ft (194.2 m) in Los Angeles. [5] The building site was previously a vacant lot. [6] The tower has 785 apartment units.
1000 Second Avenue is a 493 ft (150 m) skyscraper in Seattle, Washington. It was completed in 1987 and has 43 floors. Originally named the Key Tower and the Seattle Trust Tower for its largest tenants, it is the 23rd tallest building in Seattle as of 2021. [3]
Smith Tower construction, February 1913. In the wake of the Klondike Gold Rush, Eastern financial interest in Seattle was at an all-time high. [12] Prominent local attorney James Clise, who represented numerous capitalists in New York and Boston was responsible for many of the land transactions that saw numerous new office buildings built in the city.