World Trade Center

The World Trade Center, 350 South Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, is a 10-story office building and parking garage joined by a 95,000 retail concourse connected by sky bridges to the Bonaventure and Sheraton Grande Hotels, the Security Pacific Plaza and the Bunker Hill Towers. The concourse was largely vacant when Mr. Brubaker was asked by owner Haseko (California), Inc. to rethink the highest and best use for it.  He commissioned a study which recommended a plan centered on three full-service restaurants serving the large daytime population in the immediate vicinity.  Other uses planned were a nightclub, stages for live performances and an art gallery, along with ancillary uses.  He then contracted with Arthur M. Gensler and Associates to conceptualize the new plan, resulting in the plans seen here.

The day of the zoning hearing for the project, Mr. Brubaker was pictured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times Metro section in the Concourse with renderings of the proposed redevelopment.  Haseko was granted the necessary Conditional Use Permit for the mall redevelopment and the nightclub.

Planned renovation

Existing interior