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The top two floors of a Century City residential tower still under construction have been sold for a record $47 million to Candy Spelling, the widow of TV mogul Aaron Spelling. A $47-million price tag may seem like an enormous sum, but this is all about downshifting in the fast lane.

When the space-age planned community of Century City displaced much of 20th Century Fox's backlot in the 1960s, the centerpiece of the office, retail and residential complex was an elegantly curved luxury hotel designed by a rising architect named Minoru Yamasaki. Now, plans to level the Century Plaza and erect two 50-story mixed-use towers have galvanized neighborhood groups and preservationists, whose determination to rescue the hotel has led to quiet negotiations with its owners.

It's an old-fashioned dilemma with a modern twist: When your lease is up, what do you do with your one-of-a-kind, built-in office space? Century City businessman James F. Goldstein faces that question tonight when lights are turned out for the last time at an office designed for him by acclaimed Modernist architect John Lautner. Goldstein is a modern-architecture lover who lives in a sleek Lautner home.

The Annenberg Foundation, a philanthropic powerhouse that supports nonprofit institutions, is planning to launch an exhibition space for photography in Century City. Conceived as a cultural center with broad public appeal, the Annenberg Space for Photography will open next spring near the former site of the Shubert Theatre. The new facility is under construction in a one-story building designed to fulfill Los Angeles' "percent for art" requirement for commercial developments. The 10,000-square-foot structure, flanked by office high-rises and the outdoor plaza known as Century Park, will house a digital projection gallery along with a more traditional display area for prints and a classroom, workshop and library.

CAA is claiming ABC's old turf. Creative Artists Agency plans to move to Century City from Beverly Hills under a lease valued at more than $150 million that will allow developers to start building an office complex on the site of the vacant ABC Entertainment Center. Developer Trammell Crow Co.

Despite a slowing housing market, a New York developer is gambling that well-heeled buyers will fork out as much as $25 million for lavish Century City condominiums as big as many mansions. So confident is developer Related in its bet, it is demolishing a relatively new and luxurious hotel to make room for the even more luxurious condos. Demolition recently began on the former St. Regis Hotel, a Century City landmark next to the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Former President Ronald Reagan isn't renewing the lease in the Century City office tower penthouse where he entertained heads of state and others for more than a decade. Reagan's 10-year lease expires this year and won't be renewed, closing another chapter in the post-White House years of the nation's 40th chief executive. "There's a lot of history here.

THIS sleek glass-and-steel structure is as striking as any to go up in the Southland recently. It solves a number of spatial problems elegantly, speaks to the buildings around it and has a more-sustainable-than-average design. Driving by, you see a long glass-curtain wall and metal panels coated to look like aluminum that echo the nearby Century Plaza Towers.

It seems like some people live at the mall. Now, they can. Shopping center owner Westfield Group announced plans Tuesday to add 260 luxury condominiums at its Century City mall by razing two office buildings to create more space for the condos and new stores. The $500-million project reflects a trend in which malls are being transformed into self-contained villages. From California to Massachusetts, the largest mall operators are looking for ways to stack housing within their shopping centers.

International Creative Management expects to move its headquarters to Century City, the second major talent agency with plans to migrate from Beverly Hills. ICM agreed Friday to sublease three floors of office space -- about 95,000 square feet -- in the 35-story MGM Tower at 10250 Constellation Blvd. "It gives us room to grow," ICM spokesman David Shane said.

A woman stabbed to death in a Century City parking garage may have confided in attorneys about threats on her life as she and her husband fought over ownership of their gold trading business, and that information could aid homicide investigators, a lawyer representing the dead woman's daughter told a judge Thursday.

About a month before she was stabbed to death in the parking garage of a Century City high-rise, Pamela Fayed notified federal prosecutors that she wanted to cooperate in a criminal probe into the international gold trading business she owned with her estranged husband, according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court. Assistant U.S. Atty.

Federal prosecutors for the first time have publicly linked the recent slaying of a woman in a Century City parking garage to her estranged husband, revealing in court Monday that the SUV allegedly used by the killer had been rented using the husband's credit card. The credit card was seized from the wallet of James Fayed during a recent search of his Moorpark ranch house, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Mark Aveis.

Detectives investigating the stabbing death of a woman in a Century City high-rise parking garage earlier this week are looking for possible links to an ongoing FBI fraud inquiry of the international gold trading company that she and her estranged husband owned, law enforcement officials said.

Before she was fatally stabbed in a Century City parking garage, Pamela Fayed was preparing to embark on the next chapter of a life that in many ways had been very good to her. With her husband, James Fayed, she owned a Camarillo-based precious-metals business called Goldfinger Coin and Bullion Sales and an associated Internet firm, e-Bullion. The couple owned a ranch house in a remote canyon near Moorpark and a two-story home in the Camarillo foothills.

The top two floors of a Century City residential tower still under construction have been sold for a record $47 million to Candy Spelling, the widow of TV mogul Aaron Spelling. A $47-million price tag may seem like an enormous sum, but this is all about downshifting in the fast lane.

City firefighters had to force open elevator doors to release trapped passengers at the Century Plaza, and shoppers in stores, diners and hotel guests suddenly found themselves groping in the dark at the dinner hour Friday night when a major power outage struck the Century City area, authorities said. The outage affected the main portion of the Century Plaza and 40 other businesses in the upscale shopping and business area.

When the space-age planned community of Century City displaced much of 20th Century Fox's backlot in the 1960s, the centerpiece of the office, retail and residential complex was an elegantly curved luxury hotel designed by a rising architect named Minoru Yamasaki. Now, plans to level the Century Plaza and erect two 50-story mixed-use towers have galvanized neighborhood groups and preservationists, whose determination to rescue the hotel has led to quiet negotiations with its owners.

Four Westside homeowners groups have reached a settlement that will allow construction to proceed on two 47-story and one 12-story luxury condominium buildings in Century City. The settlement calls for the developer of the Constellation Park project, Century City Realty LLC, a subsidiary of JMB Realty Corp., to pay $2.25 million to a mitigation fund overseen by four groups representing homeowners near Century City.

Century City is under attack. In a "300"-like assault, two silk-shirted waves of flashy Hollywood agents have infiltrated the Westside's most famous -- and famously nondescript -- office-park neighborhood, hitherto best known for a mall (the Westfield) and a hotel (the Century Plaza). The invaders consist of two rival armies. The Creative Artists Agency minions were the first to land, having moved into their gargantuan new headquarters at 2000 Avenue of the Stars in January. Then, on Feb.