Share the Vision: Creating a Bright Future in Downtown Los Angeles with The California Market Center
Visualize the Future
Envision a vibrant business landscape in downtown Los Angeles where technology, entertainment, and fashion industries converge as a destination for commerce, creativity and community within the perimeter of one full, city block.
The future California Market Center (CMC) is DTLA’s iconic 1.8 million square foot complex currently being renovated by Brookfield Properties. Relaunching the summer of 2021 as an elevated, mixed-use creative campus, CMC is being reinvented to appeal to the rising influx of influential companies migrating downtown.
Work, Thrive & Play
Today’s DTLA is more than just a 9-to-5 place to work. It is a globally influential Los Angeles hotspot with touchpoints in the entertainment, arts, and culinary worlds, attracting over 500,000 visitors daily. From Lakers games and superstar headliners at the Orpheum to exclusive openings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, downtown commuters, residents, and visitors have their choice of highly anticipated L.A. events to attend on any given day.
CMC’s neighborhood is studded with best of LA restaurants, ideal for lunch and dinner meet-ups with clients to impress. Helmed by celebrity chefs and industry-esteemed newcomers, current spots at the top of everyone’s lists include Pilot, Sibling Rival, Bottega Louie, Faith & Flower, Preux & Proper, Broken Spanish, Best Girl, and Terroni, to name a few.
LA’s most buzzed-about boutique hotels are walking distance from CMC, or just a brief Uber ride away. In addition to the famed Ace Hotel and the globally-distinguished Hoxton, stays at the influencer-favored Tuck Hotel, the landmark Hotel Figueroa, or the sophisticated Hotel Indigo are a must. Exclusive partnerships with these hotels offer CMC visitors significant discounts to boot.
Surrounding CMC are some of downtown’s newest places to live. With over 58,000 residents living in DTLA, the concentration of locals living in and visiting the fashion district and its businesses creates a dynamic community of professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in a compact urban radius.
The new CMC will be a stimulating microcosm of modern downtown LA, flourishing at ground-level with acclaimed restaurants and bars, top-tier retailers, boutique fitness studios, and arts & cultural events curated for the rich tapestry of Angelenos and DTLA visitors.
It will be an uncommon place to work, thrive and play.
Evolution
At one end of the campus, CMC’s enduring fashion heritage takes center stage in its newly renovated Building C. The sleek, contemporary environment is the exclusive new home for a carefully curated selection of fashion showrooms and events. Currently, the building hosts many of the top brands representing the cross-section of fashion’s diverse markets, including Puma, Paige Denim, Pantone, FILA, Timex, Ella Moss, esSkateboarding, Jessica Simpson, and Nine West, to name just a few.
In 2021, CMC’s revitalized campus will contain 1.2 million square feet of Class A creative office space in Buildings A & B. These new, creative office buildings have been designed to appeal to innovative companies leading the technology, entertainment, media, food and beverage industries.
Buildings A & B will feature:
12-foot high ceilings
24/7 building access & security
Multiple elevator banks for stacking vertically & horizontally
Secure underground parking
Concrete flooring
Indoor/outdoor space, including sky bridges and rooftop terrace
Legacy
CMC has a proud history in the global fashion industry and has been the pulse of the DTLA fashion intersection for more than 50 years. Built in 1962 to house the first wholesale fashion marketplace west of the Mississippi, CMC quickly became the primary center for fashion business in Los Angeles.
Over the years, CMC has drawn thousands of notable brands and retailers from around the globe, and has helped propel the success of well-known designers and manufacturers with the myriad networks, programs, resources, and events CMC and its community are known for. Today, CMC stands as the heartbeat of the L.A.’s renowned fashion industry, as well as a growing center for a wide range of creative businesses.
The new CMC will build on this incredible legacy of passion and collaboration as it welcomes the next century’s creative visionaries and new industries.
Join Us in Creating This Bright New Future
CMC is where history meets innovation. This icon of the West Coast fashion industry is evolving into L.A.’s new hub for visionary leaders and forward-thinking entrepreneurs influencing the global business and creative communities.
Imagine an aesthetically elevated and creative business environment that inspires ingenuity…a place where diverse industries intersect, cross-pollinate, and spring forth unexpected opportunities…a stimulating and experiential place where the convergence of commerce, creativity and events enable serendipitous connections and nurturing of relationships.
CMC will be the place where this vision manifests reality and ideas take space. Learn more about the new CMC by visiting: www.cmcdtla.com
This is an article repost from our friends The Maple Business Council, promoting cross-border investment, trade and entrepreneurship between Canada and the United States. For more information, visit: www.maplecouncil.org