The New Warner Center

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Once hailed as a jewel of development and the “downtown” of the San Fernando Valley, Warner Center finds itself at a crossroads – torn between its urban ambition and suburban legacy, the L.A. Daily News reports.


On the drawing board in the 1970s, Warner Center was envisioned as a modern mini-city surrounded by suburban single- family neighborhoods. It would be larger than Century City but connected by mass transit and without the traffic gridlock.


The 1 -square-mile area evolved during the next 30 years, with a few high-rise commercial towers and blocks of low-slung offices and sprawling shopping malls.


Now, the real estate boom sweeping California has reignited interest in Warner Center and visions of a dense mini- metropolis.


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