The 16-story Lee Plaza, situated a mile west of New Center at 2240 W. Grand Blvd., originally opened as a luxury residential hotel in 1929 and has been vacant since the mid-1990s, when it last ...

Honestly, you can’t miss it. It’s Lee Plaza, a 16-story abandoned hotel that has stood empty since it closed in 1997, casting a dark and deteriorating shadow over Northwestern High School.