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By Helene Elliott

Oct. 10, 1999 12 AM PT

Precast concrete columns: 281.

* Height of the tallest column: 105 feet, 10 inches.

* Tons of structural steel: 2,500.

* Tons of reinforcing steel: 8,000.

* Precast concrete pieces: 2,950.

* Weight of heaviest piece of precast concrete: 140,000 pounds.

* Square feet of drywall (including office tower): 2,865,000.

* Square yards of carpeting: 32,500.

* Square yards of shag carpet: 0.

* Square feet of ceramic/porcelain tile: 44,000.

* Square feet of granite tile: 15,700.

* Square feet of terrazzo: 81,000.

* Cubic yards of material excavated: 160,000.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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