Century City and Cheviot Hills- Los Angeles California
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Century City and
Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Cheviot Hills is a small residential district on the
West Side of Los Angeles,
California.
Cheviot Hills is bordered by
Rancho Park on the west and northwest,
Palms on the south,
Beverlywood on the east, and Century City and
Beverly Hills on the north.
Principal thoroughfares include
Pico and
National Boulevards and
Manning and Motor
Avenues.
Century City is a 176-acre (
712,000-m²) commercial and residential district on the
West Side of the
City of Los Angeles. It is bounded by
Westwood on the west, Rancho Park on the southwest, Cheviot Hills and Beverlywood on the southeast, and the city of Beverly Hills on the northeast. Its major thoroughfares are
Santa Monica,
Olympic, and Pico Boulevards (its northern boundary, central artery, and southern boundary, respectively), as well as
Avenue of the Stars and
Century Park East and West.
Century City is an important business center, and many law firms and executives — particularly those with ties to the film, television, and music industries — have offices there.
he high-rise buildings along
Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood appear to blend in with those of Century City when seen at a distance, although they are separated by over three-quarters of a mile (
1.2 km).
Skyline from
Santa Monica Boulevard
Its gleaming high-rises stand in stark contrast to the small apartment buildings and single-family detached homes in the lower-density neighborhoods surrounding it, and were some of the first skyscrapers built in
Los Angeles after the lifting of earthquake-related height restrictions in the early
1960s.
For many years, it was home to the
ABC Entertainment Center, which housed network operations for the
ABC Television Network and the
Shubert Theatre. They were demolished in 2004 and replaced by a modern glass building that houses the headquarters
CAA affectionately known as the
Death Star, which is part of the complex called Century Park.
Fox Plaza,
20th Century Fox headquarters most well-known for being
Nakatomi Plaza in the movie
Die Hard.
Constellation Place, (or the
MGM Tower) headquarters of the historic
Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Once a backlot of 20th Century Fox, which still has its headquarters just to the southwest, the Fox studio commissioned a master-plan development from
Welton Becket Associates, which was unveiled at a major press event on the "western" backlot in
1957. In
1961, after Fox suffered a string of expensive flops, culminating in the box-office disaster
Cleopatra, the film studio sold about
180 acres (0.73 km2) to developer
William Zeckendorf and
Aluminum Co. of
America, also known as
Alcoa.
The new owners conceived Century City as "a city within a city." In
1963, the first building, Century City
Gateway West, was complete, followed the next year by
Minoru Yamasaki's
Century Plaza Hotel.
It originally was planned to be served by the
Beverly Hills Freeway (Santa Monica Boulevard to the north) and a rapid transit corridor. However, neither of these transportation improvements came to pass, and so Century City is a source of traffic irritation for the residents of Cheviot Hills to the south, since there is no direct freeway access to the center. It is likely that any westward extension of the
Los Angeles MTA's
Metro Purple Line subway will include a stop at Century City.