Revisiting L.A.'s Ghost Towers

Add this empty Panorama City building to our tally of L.A.'s Ghost Towers.

The 13-story Panorama Towers, at Van Nuys Boulevard and Titus Street, has been empty since the 1994 Northridge quake. The empty shell of a building has become a blight in the neighborhood, leading the city of Los Angeles to fire suit against its owner, the L.A. Times reports:

The lawsuit contends that owner Taghi Shoraka, 60, has failed to maintain a property that is plagued by graffiti, broken windows and barricades that fail to keep out criminals, gang members and vagrants. City officials noted that Shoraka has earned income from the property through the years by renting space on the building's roof to cable companies for satellite equipment.


(Here's our original June post profiling some of L.A.'s Ghost Towers.)