For one, there's Google's YouTube Channels, which took over the 41k SF Building 17.
And hot video game company Konami (Castlemania, Frogger, etc.—ask your kids), which in August took 30k SF in Buildings 10, 11, and 18, including Hughes’ former cafeteria and fire station.
As for the 315k SF hangars, here's the scene in 1947, when Hughes rolled out what remains to this day the largest “flying boat” ever built: its H-4 Hercules, made entirely of wood due to wartime material restrictions, and thus dubbed the “Spruce Goose” (though it was actually birch).
The fuselage had been built in one hangar and the wing in the other. (The wingspan was 320 feet, compared to a 777 at 250 feet.)
Today the hangars have been rented out by Paramount, Lionsgate, DreamWorks, and others for filming Hollywood epics like Star Wars, Star Trek, Avatar, The Transformers, and Titanic. Where else can you find a set that’s 750 feet long and 72 feet high, designed like an upside-down ship with trusses that make it the biggest redwood building in world? It’s also been used recently for Jaguar racing.
Jeff and Milan demonstrate the walkability of PV’s low-rise office scene.
Here they encounter 72andSunny CFO Steve Orenstein, and like co-mayors, find out what's up.
72andSunny had one building and recently expanded into a second cutting-edge collaborative space that had housed Howard Hughes' personal office. They imported hardwood floors not from Italy but from… Pauley Pavilion. Long before its work in Playa Vista, Ratkovich was known for preserving historic buildings, so it recognized that the Howard Hughes mystique would be a strong selling point for tenants.
Of course, for lunch, wouldn't everyone expect to have an outdoor BBQ, even in winter?
Fortunately, Jeff shows us the collection of sports equipment available to help you work off those good meals, though for some reason he chose to demonstrate a bike rather than a hula-hoop. Stay tuned for Part 3.
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