| 10 Universal City Plaza | |
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| Alternative names | 10 UCP Getty Oil Building MCA-Getty Building |
| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Location | 10 Universal City Plaza Universal City, California |
| Coordinates | 34°08′17″N118°21′42″W / 34.13802°N 118.3616°W /34.13802; -118.3616 |
| Completed | 1984 |
| Owner | Comcast |
| Management | Comcast NBCUniversal Universal Filmed Entertainment Group |
| Height | |
| Roof | 154.23 m (506.0 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 35[1] |
| Floor area | 76,180 m2 (820,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| Main contractor | Hathaway Dinwiddie |
| References | |
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10 Universal City Plaza (10 UCP) is a 36-story, 154.23 m (506.0 ft)rhombic skyscraper inUniversal City, California, nearLos Angeles.[1][6] It is the headquarters ofUniversal Filmed Entertainment Group. The tower was completed in 1984 by Hathaway Dinwiddie to a design bySkidmore, Owings & Merrill, and contains 820,000 sq ft (76,000 m2) of office space. It is the tallest building in theSan Fernando Valley.
French conglomerateVivendi Universal sold the building to CarrAmerica Realty Corporation andBeacon Capital Partners in 2003, for $190 million. CarrAmerica have owned 80% of this building, while Vivendi andNBCUniversal owned the remainder. The building was sold to Broadway Partners in December 2006.[6] The firm lost control of the building in March 2008 in an auction to a partnership between Normandy Real Estate Partners and Five Mile Capital Partners for $306 million after Broadway failed to service its massive debt load.[7]
On October 3, 2013, it was reported by theLos Angeles Times that NBCUniversal's parent companyComcast Corporation had purchased the building for about $420 million.[1]
The building was originally built to be the headquarters ofGetty Oil. When Getty was acquired byTexaco in 1984/1985, the building housed the West Coast offices of that company for several years until that company merged with Shell, into Equiva/Equilon/Motiva and relocated their headquarters.MCA bought the building that year, and used it to houseUniversal Pictures. Ever sinceNBCUniversal was founded in August 2004, the building has also been home to the company's Cable Entertainment properties includingUSA Network,Syfy,E! Entertainment,Esquire Network,Bravo,Oxygen,Universal Cable Productions, and Wilshire Studios. Other NBCU businesses such as Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and its joint venture withWarner Bros. Home Entertainment, Studio Distribution Services, HRConnection, and corporate functions are also housed here.
The property is home to The Terrace Studios at 10UCP, a broadcast facility housing two sound stages and their accompanying facilities. Entertainment news programsE! News,Access Hollywood andAccess Daily began broadcasting from this facility in June 2015. The tower is home to the show's offices and newsroom facility. The tower is also home to the main studio forUniversal Animation Studios, while the other studio is located on theGlendale campus ofDreamWorks Animation.
