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Blog Post:
Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 4
Todd James Pierce
Picking up where we left off yesterday ... The real problems for Disney began to emerge in the fall of 1987. Though the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot had originally been budgeted at $150 million to $300 million, in September Disney received new estimates from architecture and construction firms that placed...
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30 May 2008
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Looking back on the Disney-MGM Studio Backlot project -- Part 2
Todd James Pierce
Picking up where we left off yesterday ... During the first five months of 1987, Burbank city officials worked toward an agreement with Disney to build a theme-park-slash-shopping-center in their downtown district. At issue was the money: Disney wanted to buy the land for next to nothing. Disney also...
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28 May 2008
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