The district sits between Beverly Hills and West Los Angeles along Avenue of the Stars and Constellation Boulevard, built out in the 1960s after 20th Century Fox sold most of its studio backlot for development.
Its skyline, including the twin Century Plaza towers designed by Minoru Yamasaki, houses entertainment law firms, talent agencies, and financial offices, and that tenant mix drives a steady flow of corporate meetings, client dinners, and industry conferences rather than public expo traffic.
The Fairmont Century Plaza, rebuilt on the site of the original Century Plaza Hotel, is the district's flagship meetings hotel, with the Westfield Century City mall next door adding restaurant and retail support for attendees between sessions.
Execution priorities
- The Fairmont Century Plaza carries the district's ballroom and meeting-room inventory for conferences and galas.
- Westfield Century City functions as the walkable dining and retail base for attendees staying nearby.
- High-rise office buildings along Avenue of the Stars host private client events and briefings that never touch a public venue.
A district built for offices, not for exhibit halls
Century City has no convention center and was never planned as one; it was laid out as a mixed-use business park on studio land, with office towers, a regional mall, and a small hotel footprint rather than a hall-scale venue. Programs that need real exhibit square footage route instead to the Los Angeles Convention Center downtown or to Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.
What Century City does well is corporate hospitality tied to its resident industries: entertainment law, talent representation, and finance. Client dinners, board meetings, and small industry conferences are a natural fit for the district's hotel and office stock.
The Fairmont Century Plaza and hotel meeting space
The Fairmont Century Plaza, rebuilt on the footprint of the original Century Plaza Hotel that hosted state dinners and Academy events for decades, is the district's primary meetings venue, with ballroom and breakout space that suits galas, industry conferences, and multi-day corporate programs.
Loading and staging for hotel events here follow standard hotel service-entrance protocol, coordinated through the property's event team rather than a public dock, which means confirming freight windows well ahead of a multi-day program.
Westfield Century City as the support layer
The mall's dining and retail options give attendees a walkable break between sessions without needing a car, and its scale makes it a common pick for informal group meals during a multi-day program based at the Fairmont or a nearby office tower.
Weekend mall traffic is heavy, so a program running a Saturday session should plan extra time for both parking and pedestrian congestion around the retail core.
Getting in and out of a planned superblock
Century City was laid out as a superblock development, with a small number of arterial streets, Avenue of the Stars, Century Park East, and Century Park West, carrying nearly all vehicle traffic in and out. That layout is efficient for office commuters but means a single blocked street can back up access to the whole district during a large event's move-in.
Underground parking structures beneath the office towers and the Fairmont serve most visitors, and self-park capacity is generally reliable outside of a Westfield holiday shopping surge, when mall traffic spills into the same structures used by hotel and office guests.
Placing Century City in a Westside program
Groups pair a Century City hotel stay and mall-adjacent dining with a general session at Barker Hangar or downtown when exhibit space is required, using the district's office-and-hospitality character for what it does best rather than forcing hall-scale programming into a market that was never designed for it.
Frequently asked questions
Does Century City have a convention center?
No. Century City is a business and hotel district, not a convention destination. Exhibit-hall programs route to the Los Angeles Convention Center or Barker Hangar instead.
What is the main meetings venue in Century City?
The Fairmont Century Plaza, built on the site of the original Century Plaza Hotel, carries the district's ballroom and conference inventory.
Why is Century City known for entertainment and legal industry events?
The district's office towers house entertainment law firms, talent agencies, and financial offices, a legacy of the site's history as part of the 20th Century Fox studio lot, which drives regular client and industry meetings.
Can Westfield Century City host a branded activation?
The mall's common areas and select retail partners can support smaller branded pop-ups, but any use requires coordination with mall management and is not sized for exhibit-style programming.