The New Mall Tenant Is Your Office

Westside Pavilion, a dying mall in Los Angeles, ticked all of the boxes for Hudson Pacific Properties.

The Los Angeles-based developer was looking for an urban site with big floor plates and exceptionally high ceilings to redevelop into what it called “state-of-the-art creative office space” for future tenants. The company also wanted a central location near mass transit and major highways, in one of the handful of West Coast cities where it usually builds.