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Warner Center is an outskirts city located inside of the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles. It was constructed to alleviate traffic to and from downtown Los Angeles. It was also meant to generate jobs in the San Fernando Valley. First envisioned in the 1970s, the project was considered complete by the mid-1990s.
It contains many low-rise office buildings, as well as several tall skyscrapers, specifically three that are all in the same lot of land. Also present are some residential and commercial establishments, as well as some retail stores in places such as the Promenade Mall.
The three tallest buildings of the Warner Center are all next to each other as to display a miniature skyline that blends in with the other high rises of the Valley. The center building of the three is the tallest, having approximately 25 stories above ground. As of this year, the structure has the company logo of AIG at the top. All of the buildings are owned by Douglas Emmet Properties, which has an overview of these towers at their website.
The skyline of Warner Center is visible from the 101 freeway, with the most distant view of the entire skyline being visible to the west from the ramp leading to Parkway Calabasas Rd., in the city of Calabasas, and with the closest western view appearing shortly after the Fallbrook Ave. off-ramp in Woodland Hills. The farthest eastern view is unknown at this time, but on the clearest of days, can probably be seen from Van Nuys.
The Warner Center is named for Harry Warner, who was the eldest of the Warner brothers. The family had owned the land since the 1940s as a minor part of a 1,100 acre horse ranch. Robert Voit took charge of the commercial development of the area after it was sold in the late-1970s. In 2003, the area employed 40,000 workers with only 10,000 residents.
The Harry Warner family provided 20 acres of land in 1967 that was turned into the Warner Center Park. It is also called the Warner Ranch Park. Today it is next to the central, high rise buildings of the Center. Aside from picnic tables, the park showcases the 1.3 million dollar Lou Bredlow Pavilion, the permanent location of the Valley Cultural Center's Concerts in the Park. These free, outdoor concerts occur on Sundays starting in June until Labor Day annually.
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Matt Paolini is a construction writer for CityBook, the family-safe Los Angeles Yellow Pages, which carries an extensive directory on Los Angeles commercial and industrial building contractors
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