Reimagining Warner Center

Warner Center - a collection of office buildings, indoor malls and low-rise apartment buildings - is showing its age. Dakota Smith in the Daily News,.

The smoked glass office parks retain a Reagan-era look. Ditto the sprawling parking lots. And the super-blocks along Topanga Canyon Boulevard, created in the '90s to speed up traffic, discourage pedestrian life.

But the city is looking to modernize the Woodland Hills center. A new blueprint released this month seeks "a cosmopolitan, 21st century" look for Warner Center, said Ken Bernstein, principal planner at the city's Planning Department.