Is Liberty Tower now renamed US Bank Tower? I thought that was what I heard or read.
Got me. I've never been to LA.
Someone got the name wrong. It used to be "Library" Tower (not Liberty). Most people still call it Library Tower even though a corporate name is on it. It is located across the street from the main LA Public Library...was built as part of the renovation of the LAPL following the fire there in the late 1980's.
It was originally the Library Tower. They had to negotiate certain rights with the Los Angeles Public Library below it.
As some other posts noted, it was named the "Library Tower", and is still called that by most. It got the name by acquiring the air rights over the main LA Public Library building across the street (the LA Public Library sold it's rights to expand upward). Los Angeles allows stacking of air rights that allows a building to built higher than the standard maximum height, which is something like 50 stories. By acquiring the air rights over the approx 6 story LA Public Library, the Library Tower was allowed to go up to 72 stories. The LA Public Library used the proceeds of the sale of its air rights to rehabilitate and expand the LA Public Libary after a devastating fire in the 1980s.
"Is Liberty Tower now renamed US Bank Tower?"
It's not the 'Liberty Tower'. It never was the Liberty Tower. It's always been the Library Tower.