Eastern Columbian Lofts
Allana Buick & Bers, Inc. (ABB), was retained to provide investigation services for Eastern Columbia Lofts located at 849 South Broadway in the Broadway Theater District of downtown Los Angeles.
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The Eastern Columbian building was built in 1930s in the style of Art Deco architecture and designed by Claud Beelman It is a 13-story building built of steel-reinforced concrete and clad in glossy turquoise terra cotta trimmed with deep blue and gold trim. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places and as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument by the office of Historic Resources.
ABB provided the following scope: visual investigation, water testing, destructive testing, building evaluation, leak investigations, study of plaintiffs/defendants reports, research, preparation of reports, depositions, expert witness testimony and related services.