Purple Office Tower Coming to DTLA's Arts District
Skanska will build 15-story building wrapped in spiraling purple bands.
Downtown LA’s thriving Arts District has been magnet this year for innovative office projects that are transforming the skyline—and now comes plans for a building wrapped in purple.
You read that right: Skanska USA Commercial Development has filed plans to build a 15-story office tower at 1727-1829 East Sacramento Street in DTLA—plans that include wrapping the building in alternating purple and magenta bands.
The New York-based developer is planning to put up a 290K SF building, including 13K SF of ground-floor retail and restaurants on a 1.84-acre site currently occupied by two single-story industrial buildings that will be demolished to make way for the purple building, which will be known as 1811 Sacramento Street.
Skanska acquired the two warehouses for $19M in 2020.
The 1811 Sacramento building, which will include interior courtyards and terrace decks, will feature floor-to-ceiling glass windows with industrial-style frames, encased in a swirling cage of metal bands in shades of purple. The building is being designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins & Will.
Skanska also is building a four-story office building at 9000 Wilshire Boulevard and has filed plans for a three-story office building at 8633 Wilshire Boulevard.
East Coast developers have been flocking to DTLA, which rapidly is becoming a hub for entertainment and media office, as well as film production.
In June, New York-based East End Capital purchased for $240M a 15-acre site in the Arts District where it plans to build a studio complex including 17 soundstages and up to 400K SF of office and support space.
East End bought the property, including two warehouses at 1338 E. 6th St. and 1321 Wholesale St., from a group that includes MSD Capital, Access Industrial Management and Irvine-based developer Sun Cal.
According a report posted on East End’s website, Oxford Properties Group provided a $160M loan to facilitate the purchase.
The property is located about a mile from a site on Jesse Street that East End is converting from a cold storage facility into a 237K SF film-production complex with four soundstages.
East End has three other studio projects under development, including a project in Glendale involving the expansion of an existing production studio and the construction of a 410SF production complex on San Fernando Road.