A coworking space downtown LA runs $59 to $69 a day, and Wezoo lists exactly four buildings inside downtown that will sell you one. Between them they hold 70 bookable desks — more open seats than any other submarket in Los Angeles County, at the lowest median rate of any of them. That is not the answer most people expect, and it is the reason this guide leads with the number instead of the skyline. If you are new to the product itself, start with our complete guide to coworking; if you already know what a day desk is, keep reading and we will price it.
For an overview of every option, see all coworking spaces in Los Angeles.
Everything below comes from Wezoo’s own live inventory for Los Angeles County — 58 hot-desk buildings, 492 bookable desks — pulled the day this was written. No estimates, no “pricing varies by neighborhood.”
Wezoo snapshot — downtown Los Angeles hot desks
- 4 coworking buildings selling day desks in downtown LA
- 70 bookable desks between them
- Price range: $59 to $69 per desk, per day
- Median: $67 per day (Los Angeles County: $69 — United States: $55)
- Operators: Spaces, Regus
Four doors, one price band. Below, what each coworking space downtown LA actually gives you for it.
Coworking space downtown LA: what a day actually costs
Sixty-seven dollars. That is the median day rate across the four downtown doors, and the whole spread is $10 wide — $59 at the Fine Arts Building, $69 at City National Plaza and 777 South Alameda. There is no bargain tier and no luxury tier downtown. There is one price band, and you are choosing a building inside it.
For context: the median day desk across Los Angeles County is $69, and across the United States it is $55. Downtown LA prices two dollars under its own county and twelve dollars over the country. It is a big-city rate, not a trophy-district rate — which brings us to the finding that runs through the rest of this guide.
Coworking space downtown LA vs Santa Monica, Hollywood and Century City
Here is every named submarket in Los Angeles County where Wezoo lists a hot desk, ranked by median day rate. Read the desk column next to the price column.
| Submarket | Buildings | Open desks | Median day rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Century City | 2 | 11 | $124 |
| Beverly Hills | 2 | 5 | $99 |
| Pasadena | 3 | 22 | $85 |
| Santa Monica | 1 | 27 | $85 |
| Hollywood | 2 | 26 | $77 |
| El Segundo | 2 | 22 | $77 |
| Glendale | 4 | 35 | $72 |
| Long Beach | 3 | 26 | $72 |
| Westwood / West LA | 3 | 48 | $69 |
| Downtown LA | 4 | 70 | $67 |
Downtown is at the bottom of the price column and the top of the desk column. A coworking space downtown LA is the cheapest seat in the county — and there are more of them here than anywhere else.
The extremes are worth saying out loud. Century City — nine miles west of Pershing Square — holds the most expensive desks in Los Angeles County ($124 median, top rate $129) and eleven bookable seats in total. Downtown holds the cheapest ($67) and seventy. The dearest submarket in the county has fewer open desks than a single downtown building.
The neighbouring markets sit in between: our guides to coworking space in Santa Monica and coworking space in Hollywood cover those doors in detail, and the county-wide picture is in coworking space in Los Angeles.
Why the LA price map has no centre
In London, Berlin or Manhattan you can predict a desk rate from a map. Walk away from the terminus and the price falls. We have measured that gradient in three cities and it holds. Los Angeles breaks it.
We took all 57 priced hot-desk buildings in Los Angeles County, measured each one’s straight-line distance from Pershing Square, and correlated it against the day rate. The correlation is −0.085. That is not a weak relationship. That is no relationship. Distance from downtown tells you nothing about what a desk costs in this county.
What does? The submarket. Century City at $124, Beverly Hills at $99, Pasadena at $85, Glendale at $72, downtown at $67, Woodland Hills at $45 — each is its own little price island, and they are not arranged around anything. The same operator sells a desk for $45 in Woodland Hills and $129 in Century City, twenty miles apart on the same freeway. Los Angeles does not have a centre for prices to radiate from. It has a dozen centres, and downtown is simply the one with the cheapest chairs.
So the rule for booking here is different from the rule anywhere else in America: don’t book a city, book a submarket. Once you have picked the submarket, the choice inside it is small and the prices barely move.
Bunker Hill, the tower cluster that carries three of these four addresses, is a half-mile square. That is the whole of downtown’s premium office core.
Four Metro rail lines converge at 7th St/Metro Center, two blocks from the cheapest desk in this guide — see the LA Metro rail network.
That interchange is the one thing downtown has that no other coworking space downtown LA rival submarket can offer: you can get here without a car.
The 4 buildings that sell a day desk downtown
Every building below sells a hot desk by the day — no membership, no minimum. Desk counts are bookable seats on Wezoo, not the operator’s total floor.
1. Fine Arts Building — $59/day, 29 desks
What to expect: The cheapest day desk in downtown Los Angeles is also the biggest open floor and the brightest one. Twenty-nine bookable desks, and every single one of them is flagged for natural light — a clean sweep no other door in the county manages at this scale. The 1927 Fine Arts Building sits on 7th Street two blocks from the 7th St/Metro Center interchange, where four Metro rail lines meet under one roof. If you are arriving by train, this is the shortest walk in this guide.
Operator: Spaces · Address: 811 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90017 · Day rate: $59 · Bookable desks: 29 (29 with natural light) · Meeting room: from $98.65/hour
👉 Book Fine Arts Building on Wezoo
2. US Bank Tower — $65/day, 8 desks
What to expect: Bunker Hill’s landmark tower, and the address people picture when they picture the LA skyline. The hot-desk floor is small — eight bookable desks, five of them with a window — so this is a place to book a day, not a place to bring a team and expect a row of free seats. Pershing Square station is a five-minute walk downhill; the Metro B and D lines run from there. The hourly meeting room here is the cheapest of the four downtown doors.
Operator: Regus · Address: 633 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 · Day rate: $65 · Bookable desks: 8 (5 with natural light) · Meeting room: from $82.00/hour
3. City National Plaza — $69/day, 21 desks
What to expect: Twin black towers on Flower Street, halfway between Bunker Hill and the 7th Street corridor — the most central address of the four. Twenty-one open desks, eighteen with natural light, and the deepest private-office floor downtown behind them (210 seats). Book here when the day includes a client: the plaza-level lobby does the work that a hot-desk floor in a low-rise cannot.
Operator: Spaces · Address: 515 South Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071 · Day rate: $69 · Bookable desks: 21 (18 with natural light) · Meeting room: from $89.42/hour
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4. 777 South Alameda — $69/day, 12 desks
What to expect: The Arts District door, in the old Coca-Cola bottling quarter east of Alameda — brick, high ceilings, and the only one of the four you would drive to rather than take the train to. Twelve open desks. It is also the priciest hour in downtown for a meeting room ($127.60), which tells you who books it: teams who come for the day and stay for the pitch.
Operator: Spaces · Address: 777 S. Alameda, Los Angeles, CA 90021 · Day rate: $69 · Bookable desks: 12 (6 with natural light) · Meeting room: from $127.60/hour
👉 Book 777 South Alameda on Wezoo
What counts as downtown, and what does not
Downtown LA has no legal boundary, and the postcode does not settle it. Three of the ZIP codes people file under DTLA — 90013, 90014 and 90015 — currently hold no bookable day desk at all. Meanwhile 777 South Alameda sits in 90021, which almost nobody puts on a downtown list, and it is 1.2 miles from Pershing Square: closer to the middle of downtown than most of the buildings people argue about.
We drew the line with a compass instead of a postcode. Every building in this guide is within 1.2 miles of Pershing Square. That is the honest definition of a coworking space downtown LA, and it is the one that puts the Arts District in and leaves the Convention Center corridor out — because that is where the desks actually are.
When a desk is the wrong booking
Three numbers decide this, and all three come from the same four buildings.
Bringing two colleagues? A day office at the Fine Arts Building is $169. Three hot desks in the same building are $177. The third person is the one who buys the door — and they get privacy for less than the open floor costs.
Coming in more than six days a month? A fixed private-office seat downtown starts at $335–$425 per month. Divide by the day rate and the crossover lands at 5.2 to 6.2 days at every one of the four doors. Under six days a month, book loose. Over it, the fixed seat is cheaper — at every single downtown address, which is a rare thing for a market to agree on. Our piece on flexible workspace explained walks through the whole ladder from a single day to a full floor.
Meeting a client? An hour in a downtown meeting room costs $82 to $128. A full day at a desk costs $59 to $69. If the day is really about a two-hour meeting, book the room, not the desk.
Downtown’s four doors keep 815 private-office seats behind those 70 open desks — the day desk is the small, visible part of a much larger floor.
How downtown LA compares to the rest of America
Los Angeles County lists 58 hot-desk buildings and 492 bookable desks. Manhattan lists a near-identical 57 buildings — and only 205 desks. Same number of doors, two and a half times the chairs. Of every 100 flexible seats in LA County, about 8 are open to a day booking; in Manhattan it is 3.
Downtown LA sits right on its county’s figure: 70 open desks against 815 private ones, or 7.9%. It is a genuinely open market by American standards, and by New York standards it is spacious. If you want the same comparison from the other end, we priced coworking in Midtown Manhattan last week — the median there is $97, half as many desks, and not one door under $69.
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Coworking space downtown LA: frequently asked questions
How much does a coworking space downtown LA cost per day?
A coworking space downtown LA costs $59 to $69 per desk, per day, across the four buildings Wezoo lists inside downtown. The median is $67. That is below the Los Angeles County median of $69 and above the US median of $55.
What is the cheapest coworking space downtown LA?
The Fine Arts Building at 811 W 7th Street, at $59 a day. It is also the largest open floor downtown — 29 bookable desks, every one of them with natural light — and the closest to the 7th St/Metro Center rail interchange.
Is a coworking space downtown LA cheaper than Santa Monica or Hollywood?
Yes. Downtown’s median day rate is $67. Santa Monica is $85, Hollywood is $77, Beverly Hills is $99 and Century City is $124. Downtown is the cheapest named submarket in Los Angeles County, and it has the most bookable desks.
Which coworking space downtown LA has the most desks?
The Fine Arts Building, with 29 bookable hot desks. City National Plaza has 21, 777 South Alameda has 12, and the US Bank Tower has 8. Downtown’s four buildings hold 70 open desks between them.
Can you book a coworking space downtown LA for a single day?
Yes. Every building in this guide sells a hot desk by the day on Wezoo — no membership and no minimum term. You pick the date, pay the day rate, and check in.
Is a private office cheaper than a coworking space downtown LA?
It depends on how often you come in. A fixed private-office seat downtown starts at $335 to $425 a month. Divided by the day rate, the crossover falls between 5.2 and 6.2 days per month at all four buildings. Under six days a month, the hot desk wins.
