Century City, Los Angeles, California Totally Explained

Everything about Century City Los Angeles California totally explained

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. Its Westfield-owned shopping mall is one of the major retail centers in Los Angeles.

Skyscrapers and other important landmarks

The high-rise buildings along Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood appear to blend in with those of Century City when seen at a distance, although they're separated by over three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km).
   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.
   Some of the most recognized buildings in Century City include:

Fox Plaza, 20th Century Fox headquarters most well known for being Nakatomi Plaza in the movie Die Hard.
Constellation Place, headquarters of the historic Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Watt Plaza
AIG SunAmerica Center
Century Plaza Hotel
Century Plaza Towers, commonly referred to as the "Twin Towers".

History

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 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 on 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's 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.

Emergency services

Fire service

Los Angeles Fire Department Station 92

is the assigned fire station for the district.

Police service

Los Angeles Police Department operates the West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue, 90025, serving the neighborhood (External Link

Education

The neighborhood is within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Public schools serving it are Westwood Charter Elementary School

, Emerson Middle School

and Webster Middle School.
Before fall 2007, students in grades 9 through 12 were assigned to Hamilton High School, but in that term LAUSD reassigned Century City's 9th graders to University High School, and grades 10 through 12 were to be phased into the University High attendance area (External Link

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