Landmark downtown apartment tower faces foreclosure ^31.9%

Los Angeles Times - By Roger Vincent - 6/19/2026, 10:00 AM

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A landmarked downtown Los Angeles apartment building designed by famed Los Angeles architect John Parkinson is on the market as its owners face foreclosure. Residences in the Metropolitan, a 10-story tower built in 1913, are nearly filled with tenants but its ground floor retail spaces on Broadway and 5th Street are unoccupied, as are... more