Eco-Friendly Project Named for Former President and First Lady 75% Complete The Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Center has been under development for more than five years. The Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Center is on target open this summer at a city park in Los Angeles' Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw district as what is expected to be the city's first "net-zero emissions" new building. Los Angeles-based architecture firm SPF:architects said the pre-engi­neered met­al buildings

K1 Speed Bets on 'Pent-Up Demand for Something Fun' Indoor kart track operator K1 Speed is expanding across California as it bets on a growing desire for fun among a population that has largely lived under stay-at-home restrictions since the onset of the pandemic last year. K1 Speed has leased a 50,000-square-foot industrial space in Thousand Oaks, California, for its newest location as part of an expansion. Brokers at Lee & Associates, which represented the landlord and tena

A Developer's Dream? A Clean Slate To Build a City Like Playing Legos. A rendering depicts what Fields, the $10 billion city-like development adjacent to the PGA of America headquarters and golf innovation hub, could look like in Frisco, Texas. The PGA of America's new home in one of the nation's fastest-growing cities reached a construction milestone, making way for a larger, $10 billion, city-like project on a wide open Texas prairie site. PGA of America, a 105-year-old gol

Landmark Structure Said To Be World's First Round Office Building The Capitol Records Building's facade has wraparound sunshades made of porcelain enamel, according to the Society of Architectural Historians. The cylindrical Capitol Records Tower has reigned over Hollywood in Los Angeles since 1956, its spire blinking "H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D" in Morse code near and far, visible both to tourists lingering on the Walk of Fame and drivers on U.S. Route 101. The 13-story tower was des