LA Times Is Moving Out Of Iconic HQ
For New Offices In El Segundo
For Darrell Kunitomi, a communications representative for the LA Times, the newspaper's 83-year-old headquarters in downtown Los Angeles has been a second home.
For nearly 40 years, Kunitomi has served as the LA Times building tour guide, hosting more than 300 tours a year. He estimates he has led more than 400,000 people on tours during his career.
Kunitomi tells visitors about the 1935 building's famous Globe Lobby, the 44 Pulitzer Prizes listed on the wall, the 10-foot-high murals by Hugo Ballin, the 5.5-foot revolving aluminum globe on a bronze pedestal and the busts of the Times' famous…
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Rudin Management's first foray into smart building development was prompted by one of life's great motivators — fear.
“I wish I could say it was a grand epiphany. But it wasn't,” Rudin Chief Operating Officer John Gilbert said. “We had a vacant building. 55 Broad St. had been vacant for six years [and we were asking] ‘What the heck are we going to do to differentiate this building from all other vacant buildings in Lower Manhattan?'”
In the early 1990s, Lower Manhattan had around 30M SF of vacant office space, Gilbert said, likening the time to a depression. The answer, the company found, was taking the aging office building and equipping it with the best smart features of the time. It opened as the New York Information Technology Center in 1996.
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Bucking The Trend: Developers Building More Parking For Their Office Buildings
Two office developers still see tenants wanting that most basic of all amenities: parking spaces.
Now, Preferred Office Communities and Seven Oaks Co. are building second parking decks onto their Central Perimeter trophy towers to accommodate companies whose employees still use their cars to get to work.
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The NSA Has 8 Spying Hubs In Major American Cities
The NSA has a long and involved partnership with AT&T, one of the largest carriers of internet and telephone communications in the world, as first reported by the New York Times in 2015. Of the thousands of AT&T properties, The Intercept…
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