Outskirts Los Angeles Building and Construction to Relieve Traffic

Warner Center is an edge city in 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 area. First contemplated in the 1970s, the project was regarded as complete in the mid-1990s.

It has many low storey office buildings, as well as several high rise skyscrapers, notably three that are all in the same lot of land. There is also some residential and industrial, as well as some retail such as the Promenade Mall.

The three tallest skyscrapers of the Warner Center are all adjacent to each other as to create a miniature skyline that blends in with the other high rises of the Valley. The center skyscraper of the three is the tallest, having approximately 25 stories above ground. As of this year, the building has the company logo of AIG at the top. All of the buildings are owned by Douglas Emmet Properties, which has an overview of these towers at their website.

The skyscrapers of the Warren Center are visible from the 101 freeway, with the most distant view of the entire skyline being visible to the west from the off-ramp of Parkway Calabasas Rd., in the city of Calabasas, and with the closest western view being shortly after the Fallbrook Ave. off-ramp in Woodland Hills. The farthest eastern view is unknown at this time, but on the clearest of days, can probably be seen from Van Nuys.

The Warner Center was named for 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 area employed 40,000 workers with only 10,000 residents.

The Harry Warner family donated 20 acres of land in 1967 that became the Warner Center Park. It is also known as the Warner Ranch Park. Currently it is next to the central, high rise buildings of the Center. Aside from picnic tables, the park showcases 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 up till Labor Day on a yearly basis.