Demolition of three highly visible derelict buildings at the former Valley Plaza Shopping Center will happen, but first Heritage 1976, a company hired by The Charles Company that owns the property, is salvaging 160 tons of wood that chief estimator Jeremy Beck said “will be diverted from a landfill.”
According to Beck, with Heritage 1976, “We won’t have to kill more trees.” And on Tuesday they will place fencing around a third building on Victory Boulevard.
The biggest shopping center on the West Coast in 1951 when it opened, the teardown follows an Aug. 19 vote by the Los Angeles Board of Building and Safety Commissioners to declare six buildings on the site a public nuisance.
Jeremy Beck, of Heritage 1976, says his company is diverting 160 tons from the landfill as they dismantle and demolish former Valley Plaza Shopping Center buildings in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Heritage 1976 takes down the interior of a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building on the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. The demolition and disposal company is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Sean Lynch and Luis Garcia, of Heritage 1976, look over what to recycle from a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building along the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood before demolishing the interior of the building on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. The demolition and disposal company is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Luis Garcia, of Heritage 1976, works on demolishing a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building on the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. The demolition and disposal company is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Sean Lynch and Luis Garcia, of Heritage 1976, look over what to recycle from a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building along the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood before demolishing the interior of the building on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. The demolition and disposal company is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A man crosses the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard in North Hollywood where the interior of the the former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building is being dismantled on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Heritage 1976, a demolition and disposal company, is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Items are seen left behind by homeless people in the former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building along the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon that is slated for demolition in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Wood saved from a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building that is coming down at the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. Heritage 1976, the demolition and disposal company, is leaving the facade for a film crew and will taking the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Luis Garcia, of Heritage 1976, works on demolishing a former Valley Plaza Shopping Center building on the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. The demolition and disposal company is leaving the facade for a film crew and will take the building down at the end of month. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Jeremy Beck, of Heritage 1976, says his company is diverting 160 tons from the landfill as they dismantle and demolish former Valley Plaza Shopping Center buildings in North Hollywood on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Earlier this week, Los Angeles City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian called the site “a blight on the community for over a decade” and noted, “We’ve seen constant break-ins, fires, overdoses and violent crime at this site.”
The demolition and disposal company is leaving a facade standing for use by a film crew and will take it down at the end of the month.
Fred Gaines, a lawyer for The Charles Company, the property owner, yesterday clarified that the City of Los Angeles is not carrying out the demolition, noting that property owners at Five Points/Charles Company are the only entity actively demolishing structures and “improving conditions.”