An investigation is underway after taggers destroyed the 27th floor of an abandoned luxury high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles.
Video from Oceanwide Plaza shows graffiti painted on nearly every floor of the building on Figueroa Avenue. The structure is located near the Crypto.com Arena, where his 2024 Grammy Awards will be held this Sunday.
It’s not clear how many people were involved or how long the graffiti took.
A luxury high-rise building that has been left unfinished for nearly five years. (Fox News Digital)
The Los Angeles Police Department said Central Police officers met with property managers and city representatives to discuss ways to make properties safer and add additional safety measures.
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“The action will be taken immediately and the graffiti will be removed,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement to FOX News Digital.
Construction on the $1 billion Oceanwide Plaza began in 2015. Callison RTKL, the architectural firm behind the project, said the project’s goal is to transform downtown Los Angeles from “a destination for coming and going to a place to live,” the report said. Fox LA.
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Construction work on the building stalled after the Chinese developer who led the project called it off in 2019. It has remained unfinished ever since.
