Century City statistics reveal a highly planned district shaped by large mixed-use projects, major office towers, hotels, condominiums, public plazas, and detailed transportation rules. The figures below come from legacy environmental and planning documents and were not independently verified.
Contents
- Century City Center at a glance
- Century City Center development scale
- Century Plaza buildings and hotel capacity
- Existing hotel and amenity space
- Open space, jobs, and public-serving uses
- Century City planning and transportation standards
Century City Center at a glance
The modified Century City Center proposal combined a tall office tower with smaller office space, retail, mobility facilities, parking, and a substantial site footprint. The project site was approximately 5.5 acres, while the main office program was approximately 700,000 square feet. These figures describe the modified proposal in the Century City Center FEIR.
The headline building was one 37-story office tower. Its height was approximately 570 feet at the site perimeter and 849 feet above mean sea level. The proposal also included approximately 25,830 square feet of low-rise, one- and two-story office space.
Several components were designed to support movement and daily activity around the office development. The plan included an approximately 1,300-square-foot Mobility Hub and a Transit Plaza. It also included approximately 4,120 square feet of ancillary retail and a parking structure planned with approximately 1,579 stalls. (Century City Center FEIR)
| Century City Center measure | Reported figure |
|---|---|
| Site area | Approximately 5.5 acres |
| Main office program | Approximately 700,000 square feet |
| Office tower | 37 stories |
| Tower height at site perimeter | Approximately 570 feet |
| Tower height above mean sea level | 849 feet |
| Low-rise office space | Approximately 25,830 square feet |
| Mobility Hub | Approximately 1,300 square feet |
| Ancillary retail | Approximately 4,120 square feet |
| Planned parking | Approximately 1,579 stalls |
The approved Century City Center project represented a different, larger mixed-use configuration. It allowed approximately 483 residential condominiums, featured two 47-story towers, and included one 12-story building. The approved project totaled approximately 1.3 million square feet. (Century City Center FEIR)
Century City Center development scale
The Century City Center figures show how much the physical scale of a single proposal can vary depending on the development version being discussed. The modified project was described around one 37-story office tower and an approximately 700,000-square-foot office program. The approved project was described as a mixed-use plan totaling approximately 1.3 million square feet.
Those figures should be read as descriptions of separate project configurations, not as measurements to combine. The modified proposal included low-rise office space, a Mobility Hub, a Transit Plaza, ancillary retail, and a parking structure. The approved project included residential condominiums and a combination of taller and shorter buildings. (Century City Center FEIR)
Residential capacity in the approved configuration was approximately 483 condominium units. That residential figure is distinct from the office program in the modified proposal. The source also described two 47-story towers and one 12-story building, giving the approved configuration a different vertical profile from the modified one. (Century City Center FEIR)
The development documents also described physical improvements beyond enclosed floor area. A Century City Center FEIR comments/support letter described about 2 acres of landscaped green roof deck and 35,000 square feet of additional public open space on site. These are reported project features, not a citywide open-space total.
The same comments/support letter described Century City Center as creating an estimated 6,000 new jobs during construction and operation. Because the wording is an estimate covering construction and operation, it should not be interpreted as a measured employment count for a specific year. (Century City Center FEIR comments/support letter)
Century Plaza buildings and hotel capacity
Century Plaza’s mixed-use project included a south building with 130 high-rise condominium dwelling units. The north building included a 240-room hotel and 163 high-rise condominium dwelling units. Together, those are separate residential and hotel components identified in the Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR; they should not be treated as one undifferentiated unit count.
The north building also included 117,647 gross square feet of office space. Its hospitality and commercial program included 8,400 square feet of ancillary restaurant space, 4,800 square feet of ancillary retail space, and 26,250 square feet of meeting room area. It further included a 16,800-square-foot spa/fitness facility. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
The project’s residential component included 15 housekeeping/support staff units. Those units were identified separately from the 130 south-building condominium units and the 163 north-building condominium units. Keeping the categories separate matters because condominium units and staff units serve different purposes within the project description. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
The publicly accessible plaza included 93,814 gross square feet of retail space and 15,463 gross square feet of restaurant space. These plaza figures describe gross floor areas associated with public-facing commercial uses. They are not the same as the north building’s ancillary retail and restaurant measurements. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
| Century Plaza measure | Reported figure |
|---|---|
| South-building high-rise condominiums | 130 units |
| North-building hotel | 240 rooms |
| North-building high-rise condominiums | 163 units |
| Housekeeping/support staff units | 15 units |
| North-building office space | 117,647 gross square feet |
| North-building meeting rooms | 26,250 square feet |
| North-building restaurant space | 8,400 square feet |
| North-building ancillary retail | 4,800 square feet |
| North-building spa/fitness facility | 16,800 square feet |
| Plaza retail space | 93,814 gross square feet |
| Plaza restaurant space | 15,463 gross square feet |
Existing hotel and amenity space
The existing hotel on the Century Plaza site had 726 rooms. Its meeting room area was 84,275 square feet, while administration space measured 19,035 square feet. The existing hotel also contained 7,503 square feet of lobby space, 9,179 square feet of food and beverage space, and 1,937 square feet of retail space. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
The existing hotel’s amenity profile included a 32,615-gross-square-foot spa/fitness facility. This existing facility is distinct from the 16,800-square-foot spa/fitness facility described for the north building in the mixed-use project. The two figures refer to different facilities within the source’s existing and project descriptions. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
The hotel statistics also illustrate why measurement labels matter. The room count is expressed in rooms, meeting and amenity figures are expressed in square feet, and the spa/fitness measurement is specifically described as gross square feet. These are different units and should not be added together as though they represented the same type of capacity.
The existing hotel’s 726 rooms also differ from the north building’s proposed 240-room hotel. One is an existing-site figure in the project description, while the other is a component of the north building. The Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR presents both figures, but they describe different parts of the project context.
Open space, jobs, and public-serving uses
Century City Center was associated with about 2 acres of landscaped green roof deck and 35,000 square feet of additional public open space on site. The green roof deck and public open space are separate reported features in the Century City Center FEIR comments/support letter.
The project’s public-facing design elements also included a Transit Plaza and an approximately 1,300-square-foot Mobility Hub. Ancillary retail was approximately 4,120 square feet in the modified Century City Center proposal. These components suggest a plan that included circulation and public activity alongside the office program, but the supplied documents do not provide a quantified daily visitor total for them. (Century City Center FEIR)
The estimated employment figure was 6,000 new jobs during construction and operation. The source labels this as an estimate, and it combines two phases rather than describing a single-date workforce. It therefore belongs alongside the project’s physical statistics as an estimated impact measure, not as a current jobs census. (Century City Center FEIR comments/support letter)
Century Plaza’s publicly accessible plaza was described with 93,814 gross square feet of retail space and 15,463 gross square feet of restaurant space. The same project context included a north-building hotel, office space, meeting rooms, condominium units, and a spa/fitness facility. Together, these figures describe a broad mix of public, commercial, hospitality, residential, and office uses, while retaining the source’s separate categories. (Century Plaza Mixed-Use FEIR)
Century City planning and transportation standards
The Century City North Specific Plan sets several numerical standards for hotels, residential trips, transit access, building height, public-purpose space, and trip transfers. The plan caps meeting rooms in any one hotel at 26,250 square feet and uses a 75-square-foot-per-guest-room cap for hotel meeting rooms and related space.
Residential trips under the Specific Plan are calculated at 7.55 trips per dwelling unit. This is a planning-rate formula, not a report of observed trips on a particular date. Retail commercial trips transferred under the plan are counted at 35 trips per 1,000 square feet of floor area. The plan also states that no more than 683.941 trips may be transferred for non-retail uses. (Century City North Specific Plan)
Transit access is defined with precise location and parcel requirements. A transit stop under the plan must be within 400 feet of the center line of Constellation Boulevard. The transit stop parcel must be at least 10,000 square feet in size, and the right-of-way for the transit stop is described as 10,000 square feet. (Century City North Specific Plan)
The Specific Plan also sets a height limit in the C2-1-VL-0 portion: no building may exceed 45 feet from the plaza-level floor elevation of Century Square Shopping Center. Separately, the parking building parcel must provide a setback of at least 200 feet from Century Park West and may be no longer than 335 feet above sea level. (Century City North Specific Plan)
Parcel A must make available 15,000 square feet of improved leasable floor area for public-purpose uses. The public-purpose lease rate cannot be lower than the lesser of market rent or construction cost amortized over 20 years. If leases are not executed within 24 months, the owner may have to convey floor area free of charge. The conveyed floor area may not be more than 3,000 square feet and may not be less than 1,000 square feet. (Century City North Specific Plan)
These standards are regulatory and planning measurements rather than current neighborhood observations. Their role is to define limits, formulas, distances, areas, and timing requirements for specified uses and development conditions in the Century City North Specific Plan.