The Santa Monica home of video game developer Activision Blizzard Inc. and prescription drugs savings platform GoodRx Holdings Inc. was purchased by JPMorgan Chase & Co. for about $166 million. The building’s owner, the California State Retirement Systems, originally put the property up for sale in February for $180 million.
At least two of the four groups contending for the project are proposing hotel towers that, if built as envisioned, could end up being the tallest building in Richmond.
In one of L.A.’s largest office leases of the year, Verve Talent and Literary Agency has signed a new 53,000-square-foot lease at a creative office campus, officially relocating the agency’s global headquarters from Miracle Mile to Hollywood.
I have a friend who grew up the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi County. He likes to talk about the culture shock that would occur decades ago when traveling down U.S. 61, also known as the Blues Highway. After passing dozens of sharecropper shacks, motorists would enter the company town of Wilson, shaded by majestic cottonwood trees. Its downtown businesses were housed in buildings designed in the English Tudor style.