Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Century City’s 90067 Zip Code is the 8th Richest Zip Code in the United States
Derived from the Huff Post Business article The Richest Zip Codes in the United States
Monday, June 6th, 2011
From our friends at the CB Richard Ellis Century Plaza Towers:
“We’ve just been informed that the City will be performing street work on Century Park East between Olympic and Pico beginning Monday, June 6th thru Wednesday, June 8th. Please expect lane closures during this time frame. The [Century Plaza Towers] Pico exit tunnel will be closed on Monday, June 6th during the hours of 8:00 am – 10:00 am. Please refrain from using this exit during this time and direct all staff and visitors to the Constellation or Century Park East/Olympic exits.”
Friday, April 1st, 2011
From the Century Park CB Richard Ellis Property Management team:
“Dear Friends:
Please be advised of the following event taking place this Saturday, April 2, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We would appreciate you notifying your tenants and all interested parties:
With the recent natural disasters in Japan and New Zealand, we are reminded that emergency preparedness is critical to life safety and mitigating damage and loss. On Saturday, April 2, 2011 between 8:00 am and 12:00 pm, the Century Plaza Towers (2029 Century Park East) will actively participate in a joint emergency pre-disaster planning drill and training exercise with the Los Angeles Fire Department and Massey Disaster Planning. The exercise will enhance training and refine skills pertinent to high rise search and rescue and fire attack procedures. Training exercise participants will be utilizing the master disaster preparedness plan developed specifically for the Century Park project by Massey Disaster Planning. Simulating disaster conditions and scenarios, 60 LAFD personnel (including 6 captains), 12-15 fire trucks and a fire department helicopter, as well building personnel will be involved in the training exercise.
Century Plaza Tower’s North Tower (2029 Century Park East) will be used in the exercise, on vacant floors. Century Park East will be the staging area for LAFD fire trucks and equipment and the landing pad for a LAFD helicopter. Training exercise participants will be in stairwells, on the roof, on vacant floors and out front of the building.
Tenants and visitors of Century Park (Century Plaza Towers and 2000 Avenue of the Stars) will be able to access offices and the Annenberg Space for Photography during the exercise. Project access will be available on Constellation Boulevard, Olympic Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars. The valet drive for Century Plaza Towers will not be available during the training exercise.
What: Century Park Emergency Pre-Disaster Training Exercise and Drill
Where: Century Plaza Towers (North Tower/2029 Building) and Century Park East
When: Saturday, April 2, 2011 – 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
For Information contact: Renee Watkinson – 310.226.7421 or renee.watkinson@cbre.com“
Friday, April 1st, 2011
The new Beverly Hills-based site on the subway is misleading.
By Carol Spencer | Email the author | 6:00am
At the same time the Beverly Hills Board of Education is reported to be considering cutting funding to the district’s adult and alternative education department to bridge a potential shortfall in the 2011-2012 budget and auditing the school lunch program to cut costs in that area. Would the money spent on lobbying be better spent on educating students?
A highly misleading name—www.centurycitysubway.org—was chosen for the website that will tend to confuse the reader and lead them to believe it might come from an official Metro source. The site contains unauthorized, slanted viewpoints!
Currently the website states that it will educate people who live and work in Beverly Hills, Century City and Westwood about the best site for the Century City Subway Station. However the facts presented are preliminary in nature and seen through the eyes of the BHUSD.
As a resident of Westwood, I have a totally different set of facts to work with.
The BHUSD website states that a station on Santa Monica Boulevard will have the highest ridership. However the facts do not back this up.
The Century City Subway Station located at Constellation Boulevard and Avenue of the Stars will be at the center, the hub of Century City leading riders directly to Century City office buildings, hotels, shopping, and restaurants. There are 40,000 daily workers who will be served by the Constellation Station. In addition there are 2,200 residential units south of Constellation who would be able to use this subway station location rather than get into their cars.
Santa Monica Blvd. is bordered by the Los Angeles Country Club golf course offering zero riders. This is considered very bad design when ridership is a factor.
The BHUSD website states that both Constellation Blvd and Ave of the Stars are dead end streets. However they must not be aware of the plan of Century City.
Both Avenue of the Stars and Constellation Blvd, the hub of Century City, were designed for easy access to surrounding through transit roadways and parkways such as Santa Monica Blvd, Olympic Blvd and Pico Blvd, the same roads that are frequently complained about as bringing too much traffic through Beverly Hills.
The BHUSD website states that it will be $60 million less to build a subway station on Santa Monica Blvd than Constellation Blvd. However, this was a preliminary estimate based on “conceptual engineering.” The Final EIS/EIR is refining cost numbers based upon additional analysis and engineering to achieve a more accurate preliminary cost estimate.
The Santa Monica Blvd. subway station did not have the added costs of safely building the subway station on top of, parallel to the Santa Monica Earthquake fault line or the Beverly Hills Lineament considered by many authorities to be another earthquake fault lying under Moreno Drive and Santa Monica Blvd.
There is also a 20-foot wide drainage ditch located between the LACC golf course and the former Robinsons May parking structure creating costly problems for the newly added Eastern Santa Monica Blvd subway station location.
The BHUSD website states they will prove three criteria—cost, ridership and travel time that will make a subway station on Santa Monica Blvd. make the most sense. However, using the same preliminary information I have offered you another view of the facts thereby proving that the subway station that will serve the riders best will be the Constellation Station in Century City. After all does it make sense to walk an additional 10 minutes to save a few seconds travel time?
And as Metro’s Jody Litvak commented:
“Whatever your views on the subway, or the location of the Century City Station, I invite you to participate so that your views become a part of the Metro planning process. Please go to our website for public material, information on scheduled meetings, or go to “Contact Us” to send us your thoughts or add yourself to our data base so you can be notified directly about developments. You can also join our Facebook page for information about subway related developments and to share your thoughts with us and others who are following the Westside Subway Extension.”
Carol Spencer is recording secretary of the Westwood Community Council and vice president and traffic committee chair, Comstock Hills Homeowners Association.
Full article can be found here: http://centurycity.patch.com/articles/century-city-subway-website-is-off-track
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Century City, CA – The Century City Bar Association has named its 2011 “Lawyers of the Year” in five different practice areas. Awards will be given at the CCBA’s 43rd Annual Installation Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on March 1, 2011.
The honorees are:
Trust & Estates Lawyer of the Year – Leah M. Bishop, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Litigator of the Year – Carla Christofferson, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year – Carole E. Handler, Lathrop & Gage LLP
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year – James D. Nguyen, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year – Thomas E. Patterson, Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
Louis R. Dienes, President of the Century City Bar Association, expressed his enthusiasm for this year’s slate of honorees, saying: “They have distinguished themselves not only as being among the most accomplished lawyers in their respective fields of expertise, but as leaders in Southern California’s law and business community as well.”
Jane Shay Wald, President-Elect of the Century City Bar Association, adds: “Century City is home to some of the most sophisticated and respected attorneys in the fields of entertainment, intellectual property, high-stakes litigation, trusts & estates, and bankruptcy. This year’s honorees have set examples not only for legal excellence, but for dedication to the legal community as a whole.”
For more information, visit www.centurycitybar.com or contact Orit Arfa at (310) 415-2349 or orit@centurycitybar.com
About the Century City Bar Association
With more than 4,000 lawyers in Century City, the CCBA’s mission is to provide top-quality legal programming, enhance and promote the sense of community among Century City lawyers, honor Century City attorneys who have achieved extraordinary accomplishments, and provide leadership opportunities to lawyers who participate in the CCBA.
