Tallest building in the West opens to great fanfare
June 27, 2017
The billion-dollar Wilshire Grand Center in downtown Los Angeles celebrated its grand opening last Friday, ushering in a new age and downtown skyline for the city.
Valued at over $1 billion, the Wilshire Grand Center celebrated its grand opening on 23 June, 2017, at Wilshire Boulevard and Figueroa Street in downtown L.A. The day of celebrations included a ribbon cutting and cornerstone signing ceremony featuring featured comments from city and state elected officials as well as Yang Ho Cho, Chairman of Hanjin Group. Also commenting were Chris Martin, Chairman and CEO of the center’s designers and developers, A.C. Martin; Elie Maalouf, CEO of The Americas InterContinental Hotels Group, and Peter Davoren, Turner Construction President and CEO.
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has announced the commencement of operations of its district cooling plant at Dubai Production City project with a cooling capacity of 47,000 refrigeration tonnes (RT).
The contract worth Dh197 million was awarded by Empower last year for building this new generation district cooling plant.
This is the first permanent plant room out of the three ones established in the area with a total capacity of 125,000 RT for the whole project upon completion. 52 multi-use buildings are already connected to the new plant during the first phase; and 14 additional buildings will be connected in the next two years.