Los Angeles Times Building
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The Los Angeles Times Building is a late art deco building in Times Mirror Square at 1st and Spring Streets in Los Angeles, California. It was built as the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times and was designed by Gordon B. Kaufmann. The building won a gold medal at the 1937 Paris Exposition.In 1935, when the first part of the building was opened, Harry Chandler, then the president and general manager of Times-Mirror Co., declared the building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California".The building, despite its historic and architecturally significant appearance, appears not to be listed as a historic landmark. It does not appear in listings of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, California Historical Landmarks, or U.S. Registered Historic Landmarks in Los Angeles.The Los Angeles Times Building is the site of two previous city halls and the current city hall is on an adjacent block:
A building at South Spring Street and West 2nd Street was used as City Hall from 1884 to 1888
A Romanesque Revival building on 226-238 South Broadway between 2nd Street and 3rd Street was built as City Hall in 1888, but demolished in 1928; it is now occupied by the LA Times Parking structure and another building, at 240 Broadway.On April 13, 2018 employees were notified that ownership was unable to reach a new lease agreement to remain in The Times Building. The staff of about 800 employees would relocate to a new campus under construction in suburban El Segundo, 17 miles (27 km) to the southwest when the lease at the Times Building expires, with a July 31, 2018 deadline to be out of the building. Landlord Onni Group, a Canadian developer who became owners after the Times then-owners Tribune Publishing lost control of its real estate in bankruptcy reorganization, reportedly wanted to increase the monthly lease by $1 million.
