10 Universal City Plaza

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10 Universal City Plaza
10 Universal City Plaza

10 Universal City Plaza (10 UCP) is a 36-story rhombic office building in Universal City, California, in the United States. It was completed in 1984 by Hathaway Dinwiddie, and was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The 154 m building contains 820,000 square feet (76,000 m²) of office space.

French conglomerate Vivendi Universal sold the building to CarrAmerica Realty Corporation and Beacon Capital Partners in 2003, for a sum of $190 million. CarrAmerica is said to own 80% of this building, while Vivendi and NBC-U own the remainder.

This building is now the home of NBC Universal which owns NBC, Telemundo, USA Network, and the Sci Fi Channel.

The building's largest tenant is Universal Music Group, owned by Vivendi. UMG and its various operations occupy probably more than half its its office space.