Los Angeles County’s $200 million purchase of the Gas Company Tower last year as a new home for government offices is coming under fire after critics claim the county inflated what it would have cost to stay in its old digs to justify the tower purchase and potentially set up the historic building for demolition. At the time of the purchase, the county said it would have cost $700 million for seismic retrofitting at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, which houses the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the offices of several county departments. It turns out that […]
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