FourFortyFour South Flower, formerly Citigroup Center, is a 48-story skyscraper at 444 South Flower Street in the Bunker Hill area of

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. When completed in 1981, the tower was the fifth-tallest in the city.

History

The structure was developed by the Rockefeller Group and designed by Albert C. Martin & Associates. It opened in 1981 as the Wells Fargo Building. In 2003, Beacon Capital Partners purchased the property, then known as Citicorp Center, for from Meiji Seimei Realty (USA) and Grosvenor USA Ltd. The building was owned by Broadway Partners Fund Manager, LLC from December 2006 to September 2009. Coretrust Capital Partners acquired the property in November 2016 for $336 million. Citigroup exited the building in 2018 and moved to the nearby

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building.

Public artwork

FourFortyFour South Flower is home to one of the largest public art collections in Los Angeles. When the building was constructed, five internationally recognized artists were enlisted to create public works that are represented throughout the gallery. In addition to the pieces that were commissioned during the building's construction, a new mural by local artist Augustine Kofie was unveiled in spring 2019. * Marc Di Suvero - "Shoshone", 1981. * Michael Heizer - "North, East, South, West", 1967-1981. * Frank Stella - "Long Beach XXIII", 1982. *

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- "Fargo Podium", 1982. * Bruce Nauman - "Trench, Shafts, Pit, Tunnel, and Chambers", 1982. *Augustine Kofie - "Two-movement", 2019.

In popular culture

*The building was used on a number of occasions as a corporate office location throughout episodes of the 1983-1986

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action and crime drama '' Hardcastle and McCormick''. *The building appears in the opening credits and

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s of the 1986-1994 NBC television drama ''

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'' as the office building in which the principal characters worked. *In the unreleased 1994 adaptation of the Fantastic Four, the building is used as

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. *The building was the setting for the 1996 action thriller ''

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'', starring

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. *The building appears in the Los Angeles level of the video game ''

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''. *The building appears in the video game ''

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''. It is located in

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Los Santos (the game's equivalent of

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), however is renamed the ''Schlongberg Sachs Center'', which is the game's equivalent of

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. *The building appears as the headquarters of CatCo Worldwide Media in '' Supergirl''. In season 5, Obsidian North, a

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-based technology company, is revealed to have offices downstairs from CatCo. *The building appears to collapse when the US Bank Tower collapses on top of it in San Andreas (2015). *The building appears as the Los Angeles branch of the

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in '' Gotcha!''.

Major tenants

* WSP *

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* Equinox *

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*Parker Stanbury, LLP

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