Wilshire Grand Center / InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown (Los Angeles, California)

 hotel, office building

900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90017
www.wilshiregrandcenter.com/

Wilshire Grand Center is a 335 m (1,100 ft) skyscraper, opened in 2017, in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, California. It is the tallest building in Los Angeles and the West Coast of the United States, as well as the tallest west of the Mississippi River. The building is a mixed-use hotel and office complex, which cost $1 billion. The lower podium contains the hotel's function rooms and retail, floors 11-29 are offices, while floors 31-73 contain the 900-room InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown hotel.

Te site was previously occupied by a hotel. Built in 1952 as the Hotel Statler, it operated later as the Statler Hilton, the Los Angeles Hilton, the Omni Los Angeles and the Wilshire Grand Hotel. It included a 15-story office wing along Figueroa known as the Wilshire Grand Office Centre. It was the first new downtown hotel since the Biltmore opened in 1923, and Gov. Earl Warren was among dignitaries at the groundbreaking on the site of a former Studebaker car dealership. The Statler Center, as it was called then, was one of several buildings of the era that marked the westward migration of downtown's financial district toward the then-new Harbor Freeway. Korean Air, a unit of South Korea's Hanjin Group, bought the hotel in 1989. It was demolished in 2012