It was just about a year ago -- in fact, it was exactly a year ago -- when rumors of skyscrapers and observation decks and new vistas seen from downtown began to flood the local headlines.
The rumors were founded and the wait began: The U.S. Bank Tower, sometimes still called the Library Tower by longtimers around the region, indeed had a major change on the horizon. The skyscraper that's the huff-and-puff setting for the fall's famous YMCA-fundraising stair run, the very building seen in films like "Independence Day," would be getting an alfresco area made for view-enjoyment, party-having, and the thrill of being outside at 69 stories above downtown.
Overseas United Enterprise Ltd. is the Singapore-based company behind the big build, which is due for its big debut in 2016. But we can enjoy the observation deck now, without the elevator ride, via the just-released renderings of how the new space, which will include a restaurant, will look.
Some sizable public areas, lots of tony artworks, and vast vista-filling windows are hallmarks of the first peek into the OUE Skyspace LA.
Gold and warmer metal tones lend the interiors, which include a staircase between floors, their eye-popping looks.
The LA Times writes that a ticket up to the sixty ninth and seventieth floors will be twenty five dollars.
What that price will snag the elevation-seeking viewer: "360-degree views of Los Angeles" from the tallest building in Los Angeles and what is frequently described as the tallest structure on this side of the Mississippi River.
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OUE Skyspace LA is also billed as "California's tallest open-air observation deck."
Need a tour before the middle-of-next-year reveal? The deck's Facebook page is live and the renderings give a gold-in-the-sky first feel.
Images: OUE
