World Trade Center Concourse

The World Trade Center Concourse, in downtown Los Angeles, is a 95,000 retail center connected by sky bridges to the Bonaventure and Marriott Hotels, the Bank of America building and the Bunker Hill Towers. The concourse was largely vacant when Mr. Brubaker was asked by owner Haseko (California), Inc. to rethink the highest and best use for it.

He commissioned a study which recommended a plan centered on three full-service restaurants serving the large daytime population in the immediate vicinity. Other uses planned were a nightclub, stages for live performances and an art gallery, along with ancillary uses. He then contracted with Gensler Associates to conceptualize the new plan, resulting in the plans seen here. The day of the zoning hearing for the project, Mr. Brubaker was pictured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times Metro section in the Concourse with renderings of the proposed redevelopment. Haseko was granted the necessary Conditional Use Permit for the mall redevelopment and the nightclub.

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