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Warner Center is an edge city located inside of the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles. It was constructed to relieve traffic to and from downtown Los Angeles. It was also proposed to create jobs in the San Fernando Valley. First envisioned in the 1970s, the project was regarded as complete in the mid-1990s.

It has many low storey office buildings, as well as several tall skyscrapers, notably three that are all in the same lot of land. Also present are some residential and commercial establishments, as well as some retail such as the Promenade Mall.

As previously noted, the three tallest skyscrapers of the Warner Center are all next to each other in order to display a miniature skyline that corresponds with the other high rises of the Valley. The center building of the three is the tallest, at a height of about 25 floors above ground. As of this year, the structure has the company logo of AIG at its top. They are owned by Douglas Emmet Properties, which displays an overview of these towers at their website.

The skyline of Warner Center is visible from the 101 freeway, with the farthest view of the entire skyline viewable to the west from the ramp leading to Parkway Calabasas Rd., in the city of Calabasas, and with the closest western view appearing shortly after the Fallbrook Ave. exit in Woodland Hills. The farthest eastern view has not been ascertained, but on the clearest of days, can probably be seen from Van Nuys.

The Warner Center was named after Harry Warner, who was the eldest of the Warner brothers. The family had controlled the land since the 1940s as a minor part of a 1,100 acre horse ranch. Robert Voit led the commercial development of the land after it was sold in the late-1970s. In 2003, the Warren Center employed 40,000 workers with only 10,000 residing there.

The Harry Warner family provided 20 acres of land in 1967 that was turned into the Warner Center Park. It is also called the Warner Ranch Park. Today it is adjacent to the central, high rise buildings of the Warner Center. Aside from picnic tables, the park features the 1.3 million dollar Lou Bredlow Pavilion, the permanent home to the Valley Cultural Center's Concerts in the Park. The free, outdoor concerts occur on Sundays starting in June until Labor Day on a yearly basis.

Matt Paolini is a construction writer for CityBook, the family-safe Los Angeles Yellow Pages, which carries an extensive directory on Los Angeles commercial and industrial building contractors.



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