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Century City, located on the West Side of Los Angeles, is a 176-acre residential and commercial districts bounded by five other major Los Angeles County cities. The city plays an important role as a business center with many law firms and executives using the city for their base. Most of these buildings are related to the television, music and film industries that thrive in California. The skyscrapers in Century City were some of the fist to be built in Los Angeles after earthquake-related height restrictions were lifted in the 1960s. Some large companies that call the city their home include Fox Plaza, the headquarters for 20th Century Fox, best recognized as the Nakatomi Plaza in the movie Die Hard. Until 2004, ABC housed an entertainment center in the city, but in 2004, the center and the Shubert Theatre were demolished and replaced with a more modern glass building that now houses the headquarters of the Creative Artists Agency, or as they call it, the “Death Star,” and the new complex is called Century Park. Century City originally started as a backlot of 20th Century Fox until 1961 when the studio was forced to sell about 180-acres after suffering a number of box-office flops including the worst, Cleopatra. The land was bought by William Zeckendorf of the Aluminum Company of America. It was Zeckendorf and the other owners of the company who proposed Century City and called it a “city within a city.” The first official building of the new city would be completed in 1963, Century City Gateway West. Since the city is so small compared to its surroundings, the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Los Angeles Police Department serve to protect the resident of Century City. The city is also part of the Los Angeles Unified School District with children attending Westwood Charter Elementary School, Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School, Hamilton High School, and University High School.