Stile Downtown Los Angeles by Kasa

The Hotel

The building at 929 South Broadway has been the most architecturally significant hotel property in Downtown Los Angeles since it opened in 1927 as the United Artists Theatre — a Spanish Gothic masterpiece commissioned by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. Griffith. The Ace Hotel's 2014 conversion to a boutique hotel elevated the building's national profile; the Kasa Hotels rebrand as Stile Downtown Los Angeles in 2024 retained the 182-room hotel while the United Artists Theatre resumed regular event programming in its original space.

The rooms are distributed across the building's upper floors with the custom furnishings, clawfoot tubs, private terraces, and Smeg refrigerators that the Ace Hotel era established as the property's room standard. Kasa's management has maintained the quality of the physical environment while updating the operational infrastructure. The private terraces in select rooms provide the outdoor connection that the building's Broadway position and architectural distinction naturally demand.

The rooftop outdoor pool provides the elevated outdoor amenity that Downtown Arts District hotel guests increasingly expect. The surrounding neighbourhood — the Broadway Historic Theatre District, the Grand Central Market, the Broad Museum, and the Arts District immediately east — constitutes the densest cultural geography in Los Angeles, accessible entirely on foot from the hotel's front door.

The lobby of the Stile Downtown LA remains what the Ace Hotel era made it: the best hotel lobby in Downtown Los Angeles. The Spanish Gothic architecture of the original United Artists Theatre lobby — the carved stone details, the vaulted ceiling, the specific luminosity of the space — creates a public room with cultural depth that no contemporary hotel design can replicate. Guests who do not stay in the building still visit the lobby.

Best for Solo Retreat

The United Artists Theatre building provides the solo retreat with an architectural environment of genuine historical weight — the specific quality of working in a building that Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford commissioned is not the same as working in a contemporary boutique, and for creative or writing retreats that benefit from cultural depth, the Stile Downtown delivers it. The rooftop pool and the neighbourhood's cultural density extend the retreat infrastructure.

Best for Anniversary

A Stile Downtown anniversary anchored in the United Artists Theatre building — a private terrace suite, a dinner reservation at one of the Grand Central Market's best kitchens, and the lobby's Spanish Gothic architecture as the evening's architectural backdrop — creates an anniversary with a historical and cultural dimension that few Los Angeles hotels can match. The Broadway Historic Theatre District's evening programming adds the entertainment dimension that the occasion can draw on.

From $150/night; suites from $350/night. Check availability at kasa.com/los-angeles.