Worker Issues Need Place in ABC Site Plan

I am dismayed by the plans to construct a 15-story office building that will (optimistically) take three years to complete on the site of the ABC Entertainment Center in Century City [“Trammell Unveils Design for ABC Center Site,” Sept. 4].

Nowhere in the article do the officials at Trammell Crow address any of several issues of concern to those of us who work in the towers.

One of our major concerns is parking. If indeed the existing (and much smaller) ABC building is “mostly empty,” yet the four floors of underground parking already fill up by 9:30 every morning, how difficult is the parking situation for anyone (new tenants and old, not to mention visitors) going to be when this new “double-wide” 15-story office building is occupied?

And what will the impact be on existing parking during construction?

In the interim--while all this construction is going on--obviously our food court with its wide variety of cuisines and its outdoor tables is going to disappear, which means there will be nowhere convenient for 88 floors of people to eat lunch except one woefully inadequate underground mini-court.

Finally, about that “park . . . that holds it all together.” We’d rather have the engineers do something about minimizing the courtyard’s constant wind-tunnel effect than put in an “outdoor event and performance area,” which does not sound like it will be an available area for the many who brown-bag it (out of choice or necessity) and those who enjoy sitting outdoors.

Carly Mary Cady

North Hollywood