Parker Center, the former LAPD headquarters, hard by Little Tokyo and shadowed every afternoon by City Hall, has been mostly empty since 2009 and increasingly forlorn.

When Parker Center opened in 1955, it was home to cutting-edge police facilities: a crime lab, a traffic map room and a communications center. While its International Style architecture is ...

According to the LAPD's "History of Parker Center," an estimated 8,000 people toured the structure in 1955, when it was brand new. "The hours spent conducting the tours had proved to be a sound ...

Downtown's Parker Center, former headquarters for the LAPD, is no stranger to rumors of an imminent end. In the early 2000s, there were rumblings that the building could get demolished so that new ...

An attempt to halt demolition of Parker Center has failed, and a plan to raze the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department is moving ahead. Fencing and scaffolding are already in ...