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Pedestrian footbridge to Los Angeles World Trade Center; U.S. Bank building and Citi building appear to dwarf the old United California Bank Building / First Interstate Tower building (now Aon Center)
Image by jann_on
Los Angeles World Trade Center:
350 South Figueroa Street
Built 1974
Original Developer: Edward K. Rice (general partner of Bunker Hill Center Associates)
ZIMAS:
Central City Community Plan Area, Freeway Adjacent Advisory Notice for Sensitive Uses, Greater Downtown Housing Incentive Area, Los Angeles State Enterprise Zone, General Plan Land Use ="Regional Center Commercial", Downtown Adaptive Reuse Incentive Area, Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, w/in 500 ft of USC Hybrid High, Downtown Center Business Improvement District, Central City Revitalization Zone.
Assessment:
Use Code: 2730 - Parking Structure (Commercial)
Assessed Land Val.: ,154,591
Assessed Improvement Val.: ,500,967
Last Owner Change: 07/14/06
Last Sale Amount:
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Year Built: 1974
It was decertified by the World Trade Centers Association in 1983, but limped along anyway. A "Greater Los Angeles World Trade Center" was subsequently built in Long Beach. The two merged into one organization in 1989. This latter is now a subsidiary of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC).
In the early 1990s there was an attempt to reorganize the space as a more public retail space oriented at evening uses and take advantage of the pedestrian infrastructure:
"Haseko's revitalization plans include three full-service restaurants--Italian, French and Japanese--stages for live performances, a video rental store, an art gallery and a newsstand. The restaurants would open onto the center's mall-like main concourse, which is connected through pedestrian bridges to the Bonaventure and Sheraton Grande hotels, Security Pacific Plaza and Bunker Hill Towers. 'We want to create a streetscape here,' said Haseko Vice President and General Manager Terry Tornek. 'This is a logical crossroads.'"
articles.latimes.com/1991-01-11/local/me-8359_1_bunker-hi...
This was opposed by residents of Bunker Hill Towers who had grown to quite like the quietness of downtown at that time.
Apparently part of the building is now (2013) being used for a charter school.
wtca-lalb.org
laedc.org
www.emporis.com/building/losangelesworldtradecenter-losan...
articles.latimes.com/1988-09-26/business/fi-1869_1_trade-...
articles.latimes.com/1988-09-26/business/fi-1867_1_world-...
articles.latimes.com/1989-03-20/business/fi-201_1_trade-c...
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U.S. Bank Tower:
(aka Library Tower and First Interstate Bank World Center)
633 W 5th St
Built 1987–89. (Initial planning started in 1983.)
Architects: Henry N. Cobb and Harold Fredenburgh of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Executive Architect: Ellerbe Becket Associates.
Structural Engineers: CBM Engineers, Inc.
Mechanical / Electrical Engineers: James A. Knowles & Associates.
Electrical Engineers: Levine / Seagel Associates.
Landscape Architect: Lawrence Halprin & Associates.
Client: Maguire Thomas Partners, Santa Monica, California, in joint venture with Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, California
Originally developed as part of the 1989 Los Angeles Central Library Redevelopment Plan.
Not visible here, but part of the site are the Bunker Hill Steps, which unlike the Via Rodeo Steps in Beverly Hills actually rely on the change in elevation of the topography.
www.pcf-p.com/a/p/8316/s.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bank_Tower_(Los_Angeles)
articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/12/business/la-fi-0312-us-b...
mpgoffice.com/USBankTower/
www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2013/03/19/12954/us-bank-tower...
skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=51
www.ladowntownnews.com/news/us-bank-tower-to-be-sold/arti...
news.yahoo.com/u-bank-tower-tallest-building-west-mississ...
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Citi Building:
aka CitiGroup Center aka 444 Flower aka 444 Flower Building aka Flower Building aka L.A. Law Building aka 444 aka 444 Building
444 S. Flower Street
Built ca. 1976–81.
Architect: A.C. Martin & Associates
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citigroup_Center_(Los_Angeles)
www.hines.com/property/detail.aspx?id=2243
www.emporis.com/building/citigroupcenter-losangeles-ca-usa
forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=154492
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United California Bank Building / First Interstate Tower building / Aon Center:
707 Wilshire Boulevard
Built 1970–73.
Architect: Charles Luckman (or at least The Luckman Partnership)
Client: United California Bank (with note of the particular influence of Norman Barker Jr.), financed by United California Bank and the Equitable Group
Project management for post-fire clean-up and other work ca. 1988–89: Abraxas Architecture
Renovated: 2008 by Johnson Fain Architects
In 1988, part of the building caught on fire, injuring 40 people and killing one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aon_Center_(Los_Angeles)
articles.latimes.com/keyword/aon-center
brighamyen.com/2012/02/17/did-you-know-downtown-los-angel...
articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/16/local/la-me-norman-barke...
www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/3624.php
forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=152120
skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=1291
articles.latimes.com/keyword/united-california-bank
digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/structures/6162/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Interstate_Tower_fire
blogdowntown.com/2009/09/4647-downtowns-history-light-on-...
www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1988-0504_1stInterstateFire/0...
www.lafire.com/famous_fires/1988-0504_1stInterstateFire/E...
www.drj.com/drworld/content/w1_119.htm
www.abraxasarchitecture.com/fitfire.html
www.aon.com/default.jsp
www.emporis.com/building/aoncenter-losangeles-ca-usa
www.mkp-us.com/building.php?portfolioID=4&building=AO...
Net closing in on missing Stein Bagger millions...
Image by Podknox
Money trail leads to three bank accounts in the US
In collaboration with the FBI, the Danish police has tracked down a large portion of the estimated 220 million kroner that Stein Bagger, along with his Swedish accomplice Mikael Ljungman, embezzled from his company IT Factory, according to a report in financial daily Børsen.
The FBI and a Danish special task force have followed the trail of a sum amounting to 162 million kroner that was transferred to Ljungman’s Swedish company Xiop, and then divided between three accounts: two US-based firms, Ecommerce LLC and Media Power, both of which Ljungman owns together with the already-convicted Swede Carl Freer; and a secret account with a US credit card set up under the name Lord Mikael Ljungman.
Police have been looking for the embezzled money for 18 months, and according to Børsen, they have reportedly applied to Lyngby Court for a seizure warrant to acquire the cash from all three accounts.
Copenhagan Post Online's story here www.cphpost.dk/component/content/49712.html?task=view
www.airscoot.co.uk/dev/2010/08/15/net-closing-in-on-missi...
Hunt for Stein Bagger's missing millions resumes cphpost.dk/news/national/hunt-stein-baggers-missing-milli...
Article copy in case it gets deleted like the about article:
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As defrauder Stein Bagger once again tries to establish himself in the business world from behind bars, the pursuit for the missing millions he stole begins anew
Stein Bagger, or Steen Bach as he now likes to be called, has begun an internship which has renewed the hunt for the missing IT Factory millions (Photo: Scanpix)
The search for the missing 200 million kroner in the case of disgraced businessman Stein Bagger, has been renewed after new information has surfaced in connection with an internship Bagger is doing from behind bars.
Boris Frederiksen, the man in charge of locating the missing funds, had initially begun the hunt in early 2010, but he was forced to halt the search in October 2011 after the money trail went cold.
Bagger was an acclaimed CEO of the company IT Factory before disappearing on 27 November 2008 while on a trip to Dubai with his wife and business partners. A few days later, it emerged that IT Factory’s revenue had been falsely inflated as part of a plan to defraud banks and investors for over 1.2 billion kroner, the biggest case of it’s kind in Denmark for decades.
IT Factory was declared bankrupt and a warrant was issued for Bragger's arrest. Bagger fled Dubai for New York, were he hired a car and drove to Los Angeles, turning himself in to police authorities on December 6.
The 45-year-old Bagger is currently serving a seven-year sentence for his actions but seems to be trying to make a comeback of sorts. Adopting the name Steen Bach, Bagger is taking a business degree at Copenhagen Business School from behind bars and has been allowed by the prison service to take part in an internship programme in a moving and storage company.
The company, called Dansk-Selfstorage.dk, is led by Rene Andersen, who is one of Bagger’s acquaintances, and is shrouded in mystery, especially when it comes to the 3.2 million kroner in the company that comes from the off-shore firm Niva Trading LTD.
It is on this background that Frederiksen has decided to renew his search for the missing 200 million kroner and to see if Bagger's latest move is a ploy to launder the money.
“The question that I and everyone else have when they look into the story is of course whether this is a plot to somehow lead some of the hidden funds overseas back into the country,” Frederiksen told Børsen newspaper.
But regardless of the hunt for the missing money, it is clear that Bagger will never be allowed to be in an influential position in a company ever again.
“Stein Bagger’s right to be a founder, CEO or board member with limited responsibility in a company or an association which demands special public approval or a fund, has been suspended indefinitely according to the criminal law § 79,” his sentence read.
Bagger rejected the notion that he has anything to do with Niva Trading Ltd
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