Eastern Columbia Lofts
Glossy turquoise Art Deco tower crowned by a neon clock, now converted into residential lofts.
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This guide to the Eastern Columbia Lofts in downtown LA opens with actor Johnny Depp, who once owned five penthouses stacked atop this turquoise Art Deco tower with Amber Heard. It traces the building's start as Adolph Sieroty's two department store chains, Eastern and Columbia, and architect Claud Beelman's nine-month build for a 1930 headquarters constrained by a citywide height limit. It follows how the building went from department stores to decades of wholesale offices before a 2006 renovation made it condominiums.
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