9454 Wilshire Boulevard

9454 Wilshire Boulevard is a 12 story landmark building with a three-level parking lot located in Beverly Hills, California. The owner of the building is Paris Nourafchan.

Location

It is located at 9454 on Wilshire Boulevard in the City of Beverly Hills.

History

The building was built for the Glendale Federal Savings company. It was completed in 1968. It was designed by architects Robert E. Langdon, Jr. and Ernest C. Wilson, Jr.. The cornice is made of dalle de verre, thus giving the impression of rainbow-like reflections as one gets closer to the building.

It was the first high-rise building on the Beverly Hills section of Wilshire Boulevard. It is twelve floor high, making it the second tallest building in Beverly Hills after the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The Beverly Hills City Council required the developers to create a green space in exchange for the height of the building. As a result, Reeves Park, a pocket park, was created.

There is a three-level subterranean parking lot underneath the building.

Wilshire Boulevard

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Wilshire Boulevard (/ˈwɪlʃər/ WIL-shər) is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California. It was named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire (1861–1927), an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. Henry Wilshire initiated what was to become Wilshire Boulevard in the 1890s by clearing out an unassuming twelve-hundred foot path in his barley field. The road first appeared on a map under its present name in 1895. A historic apartment building on the corner of Wilshire Blvd. and S. Kenmore Ave., the Gaylord, carries his middle name.

Running 15.83 miles (25.48 km) from Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles to Ocean Avenue in the City of Santa Monica, Wilshire Boulevard is densely developed throughout most of its span, connecting five of Los Angeles's major business districts to each other, as well as Beverly Hills. Many of the post-1956 skyscrapers in Los Angeles are located along Wilshire; for example, "One Wilshire," built in 1966 at the junction of Wilshire on Grand is said to be "...the main hub of the internet for the entire Pacific Rim" due to the large concentration of telecommunications companies renting space there, such as Wilcon and IX2.Aon Center, at one point Los Angeles' largest (and presently second-largest) tower, is at 707 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles.