PCAD - Samson Tyre and Rubber Company, Factory, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: Samson Tire Factory, Los Angeles, CA; Citadel Outlet Center, Los Angeles, CA

5675 (5635 Telegraph Road, LAT 3/22/1987) Telegraph Road
City of Commerce, Los Angeles, CA 90040-1570 (90040-1512 5635 Telegraph)

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Samson Tyre and Rubber Factory and Offices;

The Samson Tyre Offices and Factory were bought by Uniroyal, which ultimately closed the facility in 1978; ownership of the 35-acre parcel passed to the City of Commerce, CA, in 1983; City of Commerce officials retained Trammell Crow Co. of Dallas, TX, to oversee redevlopment of the property into a shopping center in 1990-1991; Project manager, Randy Jones, of the Nadel Partnership, removed the original metal factory buildings, but left some truss-works and an original 1,700 foot wall and facade, decorated with motifs copied from archaeological reconstructions of the palace of the last Assyrian ruler, King Sargon II, in the city of Khorsabad. In 1990-1991, landscape architect, Martha Schwartz, of Schwartz/Smith/Meyer, San Francisco, CA, developed a site plan for the shopping center; additional design work was undertaken by Sussman/Prejza, Inc. and by Peridian Group, landscape architects; HCB Contractors, general contractor;

PCAD id: 313

Publications

Mackertich, Tony, Mackertich, Peter, Architectural Expressions A Photographic Reassessment of Fun in Architecture, 32-34, 2001. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 262, 1994. "Manufacturers take products straight to consumers", Los Angeles Daily Business Journal, 4, 12/10/1990. "The Citadel to Rise at Former Tire Plant Mixed-Use Project in Commerce to Retain Assyrian Facade", Los Angeles Times, 1, 03/22/1987.

Samson Tyre and Rubber Company, Factory, Los Angeles, CA (1929-1930)

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