From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:36:27 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Hughes Aircraft, Playa Vista, California |
Howard Hughes' Airport To Be Revitalized By Heather McMahon Preservation Magazine Online November 3, 2010Howard Hughes' former aviation headquarters in Playa Vista, Calif., will be revitalized as an office "campus," thanks to an investment of more than $80 million. Erected in 1941, the complex was part of Hughes' private airport, which housed the Hughes Aircraft Company, founded to further experiments in aviation technology. The 28-acre site includes a large, redwood hangar which once held Hughes' experiment in wooden aircraft, the Hercules (better known as the Spruce Goose). This seven-story hangar has been used over the years as a sound stage for film and television production for movies such as "The Aviator," "Titanic," and "Avatar." The Ratkovich Company, a Los Angeles-based development firm known for its renovations of historic structures, recently purchased the property for $32.4 million. The property had been in ownership limbo for the last 20 years, and the 11 extant buildings stand in a state of deterioration. The structures are "remarkably beautiful, yet they had been left to rot," says Clare De Briere, Ratkovich's executive vice president and chief operating officer. ... For the entire article, see http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2010/todays-news/howard-hughes-airport-to-be.html For my 2006 report on the Playa Vista site, see http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/PlayaVista.doc -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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