L’Agence Signs Lease for New HQ in LA’s Harbor Building

Count fashion label L’Agence as the latest creative to join the Harbor Building’s tenant roster.

The Los Angeles-based women’s apparel company inked a 21,000-square-foot, 78-month office lease at 4201 Wilshire Boulevard. The fashion house expects to move into its new headquarters, which takes up half of the fifth floor, on Nov. 1.

JLL’s Greg Astor and Ben Silver represented landlord Jamison Properties in the Park Mile neighborhood deal, while Kidder Mathews’ Richard Abdulian represented L’Agence.

Creative Advertising, Concept Arts and Community Films are among the building’s tenants.

JLL marketing materials place rental rates at $3.20 per square foot per month for space on the Harbor Building’s first through fourth floors.

L’Agence joins a buzzy stretch of Wilshire and a building with plenty of L.A. history.

The 246,000-square-foot Harbor Building occupies a whole block on Wilshire at Crenshaw Boulevard and was built in 1958 for J. Paul Getty’s Tidewater Oil Company. Architect Claud Beelman designed the building. Beelman was also behind the downtown Los Angeles Superior Oil Company Building, once the home of the Standard Hotel and now The Delphi Downtown on Flower Street.

L’Agence is currently based out of a 7th Street office in Boyle Heights, just outside of Downtown’s Arts District.

The new headquarters follows other recent moves by the Parisian-inspired brand, started by Jeffrey Rudes and Margaret Maldonado in 2008.

Last month, the growing company opened the doors to its first overseas store, in Paris. That was followed by a South Korea opening. L’Agence also operates stores in Beverly Hills, Malibu and New York. A separate denim concept, called the L’Agence Jean Bar, is located on Melrose Place in Los Angeles.

In July, L’Agence signed a 10-year lease for 3,300 square feet of retail space at 956 Madison Avenue in New York. The two-level space will more than triple its retail footprint in New York after the brand relocates to the new address.