Avenue of the Stars, Century City

Avenue of the Stars

Looking south down Avenue of the Stars, 1977
Maintained by	Bureau of Street Services, City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works
Location	Century City, Los Angeles, California
South end	Pico Boulevard
Major junctions	Olympic Boulevard
North end	Santa Monica Boulevard

The Avenue of the Stars is the main thoroughfare in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

The avenue is one of the main roads in Century City, a neighborhood of West Los Angeles. It runs from the Hillcrest Country Club at West Pico Boulevard north to the Los Angeles Country Club at Santa Monica Boulevard. It is crossed by Constellation Boulevard, West Olympic Boulevard, and two smaller streets: Galaxy Way and Empyrean Way.

Like most of Century City, the land on which this avenue was built was originally part of a ranch owned by cowboy actor Tom Mix (1880–1960). Later, the land became the backlot of 20th Century Fox. It was later sold to Alcoa, which hired real estate developer William Zeckendorf (1905–1976) to develop Century City.

The first building on the avenue, the Gateway West Building, was designed by architect Welton Becket (1902–1969) and built in 1963. Located on the southwest corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and the Avenue of the Stars, it was demolished in 2015. The second building was the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), and built from 1964 to 1966. At the same time, the Gateway East Building, on the southeast corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and the Avenue of the Stars, was completed in 1965; its exact address is 1800 Avenue of the Stars. Five years later, the 1900 Avenue of the Stars building, designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Jr. (1913–2006), was completed in 1970.