Centro Westlake

Centro Westlake is a 55-story tower at Wilshire Boulevard at South Alvarado Street.

Centro Westlake is the Walter J. Company and LA Metro's joint development on a roughly 150,000-square-foot block bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, Alvarado Street, Westlake Avenue and Seventh Street, sitting directly above the Westlake/MacArthur Park station on the B and D lines about two miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. Designed by SOM with landscape architecture by Studio-MLA, the plan stacks two glassy towers of 55 and 39 stories, roughly 450 to 600 feet tall, over a podium wrapped in retail. The program holds 668 residences, including 234 affordable homes, a 300-key hotel, about 105,000 square feet of offices, 10,000 square feet of medical offices and some 56,700 square feet of shops, a fifth of it reserved for local Westlake businesses. At ground level an open-air central plaza ties the Wilshire and Alvarado corner to the station entrance and looks toward MacArthur Park across the street, making it one of the largest transit-oriented developments planned in Los Angeles.