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• 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