Home Remodeling in Century City, California

According to the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Century City constitutes census tract 2679.01.

Century City is generally bounded by Santa Monica Boulevard to the north, the city of Beverly Hills to the east, Pico Boulevard to the south, and Century Park West to the west (including the west side of Century Park West surrounded by Santa Monica Boulevard and Constellation Boulevard). These boundaries correspond when those approved by the Century City Business Improvement District Association.

Neighboring Century City are Beverly Hills to the east, Cheviot Hills to the south, West Los Angeles to the west, and Westwood to the north.

The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times extends Century City’s western boundary to Beverly Glen Boulevard. However, this more spacious definition is not consistent in imitation of other L.A. Times reports: a 1999 article sets Century Park West as Century City’s western boundary, and a 2017 article refers to the neighborhood to the west of Century City (between Century Park West and Beverly Glen Boulevard) as Definite from it.

The house of Century City belonged to cowboy actor Tom Mix (1880-1940), who used it as a ranch. It well along became a backlot of the former 20th Century Fox, which has past divided to become 20th Century Studios, a additional of The Walt Disney Company, and Fox Corporation, which has its headquarters just to the southwest. The Place is named for 20th Century Pictures, which merged later than Fox Film Corporation, in 1935.

In 1956, Spyros Skouras (1893-1971), who served as the President of the former 20th Century Fox from 1942 until 1962, and his nephew-in-law Edmond Herrscher (died 1983), an attorney sometimes known as “the father of Century City”, decided to repurpose the home for real estate development. The gone year, in 1957, they commissioned a master-plan press on from Welton Becket Associates, which was unveiled at a major press event on the “western” backlot progressive that year.

In 1961, after Fox suffered a string of expensive flops, culminating when the financial strain put upon the studio by the very expensive production of Cleopatra, the film studio sold more or less 180 acres (0.73 km) to developer William Zeckendorf and Aluminum Co. of America, also known as Alcoa, for US$54 million (US$533 million in 2023 money) who had plans for a $300 million (3 billion 2023) development. Herrscher had encouraged his uncle-in-law to borrow child maintenance instead, but subsequently Skouras refused, he was out of the picture.

The new owners conceived Century City as “a city within a city”.
In 1963, the first building, Gateway West Building, was completed. The next year, in 1964, Minoru Yamasaki designed the Century Plaza Hotel. Five years later, in 1969, architects Anthony J. Lumsden and César Pelli meant the Century City Medical Plaza.