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It was the graffiti that made the abandoned skyscrapers of Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles infamous. A 2014 architect’s rendering of Chinese developer Oceanwide Real Estate Group’s upscale project across from Staples Center on Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles. Witte said he believes Oceanwide has “negative value because of the scale and the indeterminate amount of work that …

Benjamin Schneider, who refers to himself as Reckless Ben on social media, recently walked a slackline strung between two skyscraper towers 40 stories above Figueroa Street in downtown L.A. Add criminal tightrope walking to the list of problems besieging Oceanwide Plaza, the unfinished, bankrupt, vandalized, graffitied towers marring the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. Schneider told The Times on Saturday …

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The partially built Oceanwide Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, which was covered in graffiti this year, has been put up for sale and could be sold by fall. “I think there’s a broad range of buyers,” he said, “but the pool of buyers is small because of the size of the project.” Tarczynski is part of a team from real …

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Taggers have graffitied many floors of the Oceanwide Plaza towers, which have been empty for several years. The city of Los Angeles no longer has to deploy police officers to guard the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza buildings from graffiti taggers and other trespassers thanks to a new law that allows the city to hire private security guards to watch over the …

The City Council voted Friday to approve $3.8 million to clean up and secure the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza skyscraper project in downtown L.A. The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to allot nearly $4 million to remove graffiti and secure unfinished downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers that have been heavily tagged in recent weeks. “The purpose of my motion is clear: …

Taggers have graffitied what appears to be more than 25 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for several years. The moribund Oceanwide Plaza project, an unfinished development across the street from Crypto.com Arena, became the source of a new headache for Los Angeles officials this week when multiple people used the high-rise as a launching …

L.A. joins ranks of cities with ‘ghost towers’ with graffiti-covered Oceanwide Plaza

L.A.’s Oceanwide Plaza, once planned as a $1 billion mixed-use project, has become a graffiti canvas after sitting unfinished since 2019. “We are in the 21st century.” On and off the stage Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “English,” is on the stage at the Old Globe in San Diego. “The old saying about gaining a second soul when you learn …

After six trespassing arrests were made in less than a week related to a heavily tagged unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to order the property owners to clean up the site. California Four more trespassing arrests made at graffitied downtown skyscraper Police arrested four more people at the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza development, …

Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza Skyscraper

Graffiti appears on more than two dozen floors of Oceanwide Plaza. Gunshots rang out just before midnight Friday at a vacant skyscraper that taggers recently covered in graffiti across the street from Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. Officers responded to Oceanwide Plaza on Figueroa Street late Friday night after receiving a call of shots fired but found …

Graffiti Officers Lapd Oceanwide Plaza

Two people were arrested, cited and released this week in connection with spray painting graffiti across more than two dozen stories of an unfinished skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, according to authorities. On Tuesday around 12:43 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a vandalism call on South Figueroa Street, the site of the unfinished and long-idle Oceanwide Plaza …

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