The building is located at 9429–9441 on Wilshire Boulevard, in the City of Beverly Hills, California.

[1] It was designed by the architectural team John and Donald Parkinson in the Art Deco style.

[4] In 1976, he leased the California Bank Building on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, and renamed it Sterling Plaza.

In 2000, Sports Illustrated senior writer Franz Lidz revealed that Sterling had a 99-year lease with the Mayer estate that required him to pay a relatively small annual fee and 15% of any rental income, which was why Sterling had remained the sole tenant.

"With no other tenant," Lidz reported, "the Mayer estate faces another 75 years with virtually no income from its Sterling Plaza property.