Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles, originally built as the United Artists Building and later known as the Texaco Building, is a 74 m (243 ft), 13-storey highrise hotel and theater building located at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, California. It was the tallest building in the city for one year after its completion in 1927. The building contains the historic United Artists Theatre, the flagship theatre built for the United Artists motion picture studio. The theater was later used as a church by pastors Gene Scott and his widow Melissa Scott under the name Los Angeles University Cathedral. In October 2011, Scott's Westcott Christian Center Inc. sold the building to Greenfield Partners, a real estate investment company located in South Norwalk, Connecticut, for $11 million. It is currently being converted to a hotel, set to open in Fall 2013.
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