Real Estate
Former LA Mall Goes From Empty Google Space to UCLA Science Park
- University of California pays $700 million for vacant center
- Hudson Pacific, Macerich sell property as office demand ebbs
The University of California is paying $700 million for a former Los Angeles shopping mall that had been redeveloped as offices for Alphabet Inc.’s Google, with the school system planning to convert the campus to a medical and engineering research park.
The university system is purchasing One Westside and Westside Two for a new research park at the University of California at Los Angeles, according to a statement Wednesday. The school will use the site for an immunology and immunotherapy institute, as well as a center for quantum science and engineering.
