Ace Hotel Opening Reveals Historic Charm

LOS ANGELES-The newly opened Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles may be the catalyst to redevelopment in downtown’s historic core. The boutique hotel is in the former United Artists Theater, a landmark building in the Old Bank District.

“Significantly, Ace’s structure will also pioneer the southern end of the Historic Core, which is just starting to see the intense type of development that the northern portion has enjoyed over the past ten years,” says John Arnold, Killefer Flammang Architects project manager, the architecture firm that led the Ace Hotel redevelopment and that has converted several landmark buildings in downtown’s Old Bank District.