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Originally Posted by citywatch
[/b]Your post made me do some double checking about the condo towers along Wilshire. I'm not sure if the bldg you & I are thinking of is the one called Evian, but disregard the timeline I mentioned before. The only larger condo towers built around the yrs I'm thinking of were finished no later than 1990, which means the bldg I'm thinking of must have been under construction, & then left sitting incomplete for awhile (not sure how long that was but it seemed to last for at least over a yr or two, & not just months), not during the early 1990s but the late 1980s.
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I believe we may be thinking of the same one. According to my recollection, construction started in the mid 80's, and it was a topped out (or nearly so) steel skeleton of something like 17 floors before construction was halted. It sat as a rusting embarrassment for possibly 5 years or more.