skyscraper

For several years, Esparza accompanied Huizar on trips to Las Vegas with Chinese real estate developer Wei Huang, who had been looking to develop a 77-story skyscraper in Huizar’s district.

Officials have estimated that it will cost hundreds of millions to upgrade the buildings, making a new, presumably safer skyscraper an appealing alternative to some on the board.

Southern California Gas Co. said in September that it is planning to move from its longtime headquarters in its namesake tower, where it has been a primary tenant since the building was completed, to another skyscraper a block north at 350 S. Grand Ave.

Buried in a bland mixed-use skyscraper in the dreary Financial District downtown, an aging, if glamorous, 1929 movie palace with rotten acoustics long served as the San Diego Symphony’s disagreeable home.

KPC is also building two residential projects in Kolkata including a 74-story skyscraper, the company said.