Title supplied by cataloger. Designed by Charles Bentley as a low-cost and portable parking solution, the 1,062-space structure opened in 1969. It stood until 2018 when it was demolished to make room for The Grand, a mixed-use development designed by Frank Gehry. Looking south from the roof of the County Courthouse at Olive and 1st streets, December 1975. Prominently visible, from left to right, a large parking lot, a Civic Center parking structure (later demolished), Broadway Media Center, a residential motel (now the Kawada Hotel), Title Guarantee Building, City National Bank, One Wilshire, the Madison Complex, the Crocker Bank Tower, One Bunker Hill, Broadway Plaza, the Aon Center, Central Library, the California Club, and the Bunker Hill portable parking structure.
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