Brookfield has decided it’s time for a dramatic makeover at Downtown’s Wells Fargo Center.
The asset manager is spending $60 million to renovate its outdated atrium and replace it with an airy new indoor-outdoor space it’s calling Halo, according to the Los Angeles Times. The new space will feature restaurants, bars, and coffee shops and is meant to attract the public along with the people working in the Wells Fargo Center’s two office towers. …
Brookfield enlisted famed architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to design the new space. The firm also designed the Wells Fargo Center, at a time when prime office properties “were developed as corporate enclaves with the intent of being rather insular and secure,” according to the company’s design director, Paul Danna.