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Issue Summary
In December 2008, the owners of the 1966 Century Plaza Hotel in Century City announced plans to raze the building and replace it with a mixed-use development including two 600-foot towers. The owners, Next Century Associates, proposed a plan that would include a boutique hotel, condominiums, mixed-use space, and open space. The Conservancy responded with a range of efforts, including building broad public support for the hotel’s preservation, making it a campaign issue in the 2009 Fifth Council District election, and nominating the hotel as one of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The National Trust announced this listing in April 2009, and they have closely partnered with the Conservancy on this issue ever since.
In June 2009, the City of Los Angeles Planning Department issued a Notice of Preparation for the environmental impact report (EIR) for the proposed replacement project. The public had the opportunity to comment on the project’s potential environmental impacts and alternatives that should be considered in the EIR. The City received 200 letters urging that the hotel be considered as a historic resource in the EIR. In July 2009, Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz filed a motion to nominate the hotel for designation as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. He also encouraged all parties to come together and seek a preservation solution, which they did, beginning in November 2009. In February 2010, the Conservancy, the National Trust, and Next Century Associates announced plans for a revised development project that would preserve the famed hotel. In July 2011, the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the development project was released. The “preferred project” and several alternatives preserve the hotel building as the centerpiece. Click here to read the full DEIR (click on “Environmental” on the left, and then “Draft Environmental Impact Reports”).
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