The 1.3-msf entertainment and retail project and 1.1-msf parking structure was developed by McCarthy Building Co. It encompasses nearly two city blocks in the middle of one of the most heavily trafficked and densely developed parts of Southern California.

Hollywood & Highland is being developed by TrizecHahn Development Corporation of San Diego (based in Los Angeles), a division of TrizecHahn Corp. of Toronto. This investment is expected to help the tarnished Hollywood neighborhood by significantly increasing the number of annual visitors now topping 13 million. A central component of the new facility, the 3,650-seat Kodak Theater, will serve as the new permanent home of the annual Academy Awards ceremony beginning in March 2002.

Construction of the project posed great challenges for the building team of McCarthy, according to Greg Schoonover, project director for McCarthy. Surrounded to the north and west by residential neighborhoods, and to the east and south by the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame and storied Mann's Chinese Theater, the constrained location saw three massive crawler cranes being operated within inches of each other in order to place the thousands of tons of precast construction that comprise Hollywood & Highland.