City National Tower to Join Famous Downtown Los Angeles Skyline.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- The landmark downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or property that has been known for more than three decades as ARCO ar·co adv. & adj. Music With a bow. Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage. Adj. 1. Plaza soon will be renamed City National Plaza for City National Bank, the largest bank headquartered in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . The property's south tower already is being transformed into City National Tower, with new signage being installed beginning September September: see month. 30, 2004.
WHAT: The first segments of City National Bank's distinctive
logo will be hoisted up the north elevation of the
property's 699-foot-tall south tower.
WHERE: City National Tower
555 South Flower Street (between 5th and 6th Streets)
Los Angeles, Calif.
WHEN: Thursday, September 30, 2004
Beginning at 8 a.m.
BACKGROUND: City National Bank announced last November that it had
signed a lease agreement for up to 310,000 square feet
of office space at what is now known as ARCO Plaza with
owner Thomas Properties Group. The transaction -- at the
time, the year's largest commercial real estate lease
signed in the city of Los Angeles -- included naming
rights for the south tower and the plaza property.
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