Union Bank Plaza

Union Bank Plaza is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument listed 40-story, 157 m (515 ft) office skyscraper located on South Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

History

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The property was named for the formerly Los Angeles based Union Bank & Trust Company, who leased 14 floors for their corporate headquarters. Having gone through a number of mergers and acquisitions over the years, successive owners have maintained the brand and retained the naming rights for their west coast offices, however Union Bank's December 2022 merger with U.S. Bancorp has resulted into folding the Union Bank name into the U.S. Bank brand, who also leases the U.S. Bank Tower for their Los Angeles offices, so the future of the naming rights are currently uncertain. Union Bank Plaza was also acquired by Waterbridge Capital for roughly $110,000,000 in March 2023.^[6]

Currently the 22nd tallest building in Los Angeles, the complex was named a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument in 2020, the first skyscraper in Los Angeles to earn that distinction.^[5]

In popular culture

Union Bank Plaza was featured in an episode of Tots TV when the Tots went to America.^{[citation needed]}

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  Union Bank Plaza and the Westin Bonaventure
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  Aerial view of the garden
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  Union Bank Plaza from across the 110 Fwy

See also

• Aquarius (sculpture), installed outside the building
• List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles

References

Further reading

• Cameron, Robert (1990). Above Los Angeles. San Francisco: Cameron & Company.
  ISBN 0-918684-48-X
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• Media related to Union Bank Plaza at Wikimedia Commons