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Construction Begins on New Lucas Building 09 Feb, 2003, 08:47 / 2 comments

By DJG


According to The San Francisco Chronicle, George Lucas broke ground yesterday during a ceremony for the building of the Letterman Digital Arts facility.

The new campus, as you may have seen us mention before, will be the future offices for the newly merged Lucas companies. This includes ILM, Skywalker Sound, and LucasArts. The 850,000-square-foot project will house 2,500 workers and should be completed in 2005. Here's a quote from George at the ceremony:
"San Francisco's always had a quality of filmmaking that most people haven't been able to recognize, we always get shoved under the title 'Hollywood,"' Lucas said. "I think this will begin to put a stake in the ground for San Francisco as a filmmaking community, as a creator of world cinema."
You may have already seen these, but Mixnmojo took pictures last July of the future LucasArts home following a press event. Woohoo for extensive journalistic coverage.

Source: TheForce.net

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2 Comments

  • Jayel on 09 Feb, 2003, 19:03…
    Killer view, modern architecture, interior park with a lagoon, etc... Sounds like a paradise.
    Why is it called "Letterman" anyway?
  • telarium on 09 Feb, 2003, 19:05…
    I believe the army hospital that used to be at the location was called Letterman. Just a way to carry on the name, I guess.