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• Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 4

  JHM guest writer Todd James Pierce concludes his 4-part series about the 40-acre entertainment district that the Walt Disney Company once wanted to build in Burbank by revealing why this project went off the rails Read More... Posted Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 7 Comments Filed under: Disney, Disney’s California Adventure , Michael Eisner, California, Anaheim, Disney-MGM Studio Backlot, Burbank, Universal Studios , Disneyland, MCA , Universal City-Florida, Orlando, Walt Disney World, Universal theme park , Universal City , Universal Studios – Florida, Disney officials , City of Burbank, Burbank City officials , Eisner , Burbank officials, environmental impact , lawsuit, Paris , The Great Movie Ride , specialty retail , Burbank project, Disney World, Disney-MGM Studios , land , Bud Ovrom , City Manager , City Manager Bud Ovrom, agreement, downtown, Ferris wheel, Michael Hastings , Mayor of Burbank , Mayor of Burbank Michael Hastings, shopping center , 1987, Chicago, Philadelphia

• Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 2

  JHM guest writer Todd James Pierce continues his 4-part series about the 40-acre entertainment district that the Walt Disney Company once wanted to build in Burbank. Which Universal Studios then tried to derail Read More... Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Disney, Michael Eisner, Disney-MGM Studio Backlot, Burbank, Universal Studios , MCA , secret negotiations , City of Burbank, Universal Studios Tour , Brown Act, environmental impact , LA Superior Court, reporters, lawsuit, Jeffrey Katzenberg , blackmail, LA Times, Jay Stein, Champs-Elysees, Ginza , Tokyo, animation department , freeway, waterfall, Burbank Ocean, manmade lake , period costumes , gangster , New York , genre, high-rise , Vegas, Hollywood Fantasy Hotel , The Great Movie Ride , clone, Great Moments in the Movies, Joe Rohde , 1997, expansion, West Side , stores , specialty retail , Burbank project, Disney World, Pleasure Island , Backlot, Burbank Redevelopment , Magic Mountain, gated facility , Disney-MGM Studios , Dan Shapiro , MCA lawyers , Council meeting, multinational corporation , development agreement, the Walt Disney Company , real estate , Bud Ovrom , City Manager , City Manager Bud Ovrom, youngsters, Gary Wilson, agreement, formal agreement , downtown, Ferris wheel, street environment, sketches, Glendale , WDI, Imagineer, Imagineering, Walt Disney Imagineering , Michael Hastings , Mayor of Burbank , Mayor of Burbank Michael Hastings, parking structure, shopping center , 1987