Wilshire Grand Center

Wilshire Grand Center
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Alternative names	Wilshire Grand Tower
Hotel chain	InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown [1]
Record height
Tallest in California since 2017[I]
Preceded by	U.S. Bank Tower
General information
Type	hotel, restaurants, retail, offices, and observatory
Architectural style	Metamodern[citation needed]
Location	900 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°03′00″N 118°15′33″W / 34.0500°N 118.2593°W / 34.0500; -118.2593
Construction started	February 15, 2014
Completed	June 23, 2017
Cost	US$900 million
Owner	Hanjin Group IJNR Investments Inc. Plant Holdings NA, Inc.
Management	Martin Project Management
Height
Architectural	1,100 ft (335.3 m)[2]
Roof	928 ft (283 m)
Technical details
Floor count	73
Floor area	1,500,005 sq ft (139,355.0 m2)
Lifts/elevators	16
Design and construction
Architect(s)	AC Martin Partners[3]
Developer	Thomas Properties Group, LLC
Structural engineer	Brandow & Johnston, Inc. Thornton Tomasetti
Services engineer	Glumac (MEP) Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (Fire)
Main contractor	Turner Construction
Known for	First skyscraper in L.A. without a flat roof[1][4]
Other information
Number of rooms	889
Number of restaurants	6
Number of bars	4
Website
www.wilshiregrandcenter.com
References
[5][6][7]

Wilshire Grand Center is a 1,100-foot (335.3 m) skyscraper in the financial district of downtown Los Angeles, California, occupying the entire city block between Wilshire Boulevard and 7th, Figueroa, and Francisco streets. Completed in 2017, it is the tallest building west of Chicago. Though the structural top (in this case, the spire) of the Wilshire Grand surpasses L.A.'s U.S. Bank Tower by 82 ft (25 m), the roof of the U.S. Bank Tower is still 90 ft (27.4 m) above the Wilshire Grand's.^[8] The Skyscraper Center lists the Wilshire Grand Center as the 15th-tallest building in the U.S. and the 95th-tallest in the world. It won the Structural Engineering Award 2019 Award of Excellence from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.^[9]

The building is part of a mixed-use hotel, retail, observation decks, shopping mall, and office complex.^[1] The development of the complex is estimated to cost $1.2 billion.^[10][11] The Wilshire Grand Center includes 67,000 square feet (6,225 m²) of retail, 677,000 square feet (62,895 m²) of Class A office space, and the 889-room InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.^[12] The hotel features the tallest open-air bar in the Western Hemisphere.^[13]