Local News in Brief : Art Deco Building Spared
For at least 30 more days, the Wilshire Tower office building will remain an Art Deco landmark on Wilshire Boulevard’s old Miracle Mile in Los Angeles.
The owner, Moussa Shaaya, can sell the property for $15 million--if the city allows the building to be torn down. Preservationists want the structure protected as a historic and cultural monument. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to delay its vote on the question for a month.
Wilshire Tower, built in 1929, was the first office building to go up along the Miracle Mile, a stretch of Wilshire from La Brea Avenue to Fairfax Avenue, where the city’s most fashionable stores once flourished. Desmonds, at one time the biggest downtown men’s store, was located on the ground floor.
The Los Angeles Conservancy and some local homeowners consider the council’s final decision on Wilshire Tower the key to preserving 18 other Art Deco buildings in the area.
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