30 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Greater Los Angeles Area
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Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica © flickr.com – inazakira/cc-by-sa-2.0
Wilshire Boulevard is a 15.83 miles (25.48 km)
boulevard in the
Los Angeles area of
Southern California, extending from
Ocean Avenue in the city of
Santa Monica east to
Grand Avenue in the
Financial District of
downtown Los Angeles. One of the principal east-west
arterial roads of Los Angeles, it is also one of the major city streets through the city of
Beverly Hills. Wilshire Boulevard runs roughly parallel with
Santa Monica Boulevard from Santa Monica to the west boundary of Beverly Hills. From the east boundary it runs a block south of Sixth Street to its terminus. The boulevard was named after
Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861-1927), a
landowner,
publisher and
socialist (only in America: A boulevard that stands for income inequality between the poor (homeless camps) and the super rich like no other in the world is named after a socialist. You can’t help but grin).
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1 December 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Greater Los Angeles Area, House of the Month
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© salewskia/cc-by-sa-4.0
Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m)
skyscraper in the
Financial District of
Downtown Los Angeles,
California. It is the
tallest building in Los Angeles, the
tallest building in California, the tallest building west of the
Mississippi River and outside of
New York City,
Chicago, and
Philadelphia, and the
10th tallest building in the United States. Its height surpasses the
U.S. Bank Tower by 82ft (25m). The building is part of a mixed-use hotel, retail, observation decks, shopping mall, and office complex, expected to revitalize downtown Los Angeles and the area surrounding the building. The development of the complex is estimated to cost $1.2 billion. The plans include 67,000 square feet (6,225 m²) of retail, 677,000 square feet (62,895 m²) of Class A office space and 900 hotel rooms.
InterContinental is the tower’s hotel component, comprising 900 rooms and suites.
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