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It opened as Club Casa del Mar, a private beach club, on May 1, 1926. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Designed by Los Angeles architect Charles F. Plummer to reflect an Italian Renaissance Revival aesthetic, the glory days of the hotel spanned 1926-41, as it became one of the most successful beach clubs in Southern California, popular with socialites and Hollywood ...
The Shangri-La Apartment Hotel opened on May 1, 1940. Designed by William E. Foster, it was constructed by Tulsa-Santa Monica Corporation/F.A. Gillespie & Sons at a cost of $400,000. [ 1 ] The building originally had nine double apartments and two bachelor apartments on each of the first five floors, five luxury apartments on the sixth floor ...
The Pritzker Estate is a private residence located at 1261 Angelo Drive in the city of Los Angeles, in which the structure ranks as the second largest private residence. [citation needed] This is also the third largest home in the entire Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Shutters on the Beach is known for being among the most environmentally friendly hotels in Los Angeles. [13] In 2014, the hotel purchased the electric car 2014 Tesla S P8 5 as its official house car, available on a complimentary basis for guests staying in a luxury suite, the first hotel in Los Angeles to offer the car.
The Chateau Marmont is a hotel located at 8221 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The hotel was designed by architects Arnold A. Weitzman and William Douglas Lee and completed in 1929. [ 2 ] [ a ] It was modeled loosely after the Château d'Amboise , a royal retreat in France's Loire Valley .
The Breakers Hotel was developed by a local Long Beach banker and capitalist, Fred B. Dunn. [4] Construction began in fall 1925, with a projected cost of $2,250,000. [4] The original structure consisted of a single-story base that spanned an entire city block with a central tower rising thirteen stories above the main body of the building.
In its annual “report card,” Heal the Bay graded more than 700 beaches and found that 94% of California’s beaches logged clean water-quality marks between April and October 2021, and that 51 ...
Lowe is a real estate investment firm based in Los Angeles. Since its founding, the company has acquired, constructed, or managed more than $21 billion in real estate assets. Its subsidiary, Destination Hotels & Resorts, was the third largest hospitality management company in the United States in 2013.