Grand Central Creative Campus, Entertainment corporate campus in Glendale, US
The Grand Central Creative Campus is a corporate complex with several contemporary buildings along Grand Central Avenue offering workspace for hundreds of creative professionals. The site includes studios, offices, meeting spaces, and common areas designed to facilitate collaboration.
The site was Glendale's municipal airport from 1923, with a 365 m runway; pilot Jack Frye bought it in 1928, extended the strip to 1,160 m and opened the Spanish Colonial Revival and Art Deco Grand Central Air Terminal on 22 February 1929. Curtiss-Wright took it over, and it closed as an airfield on 15 July 1959. Disney began buying parcels in 1961 for WED Enterprises at 1401 Flower Street, and between 1996 and 1999 assembled about 50 ha for the campus.
The campus serves as a working hub where artists, designers, and creators collaborate daily on film and television projects. The mix of studios and offices throughout the grounds reflects the diversity of creative professionals who share this space.
The campus is a private Walt Disney Company site, not open to the public, so it is seen from the surrounding streets rather than visited. It lies just over 3 km from the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank and about 55 km from Disneyland, both reached by freeway. The former Grand Central Air Terminal building, designed by Henry L. Gogerty, stands on the grounds.
The 1435 Flower Street bowling alley, Grand Central Bowl, had just closed when Quentin Tarantino used it as the set for the Jack Rabbit Slim's restaurant in Pulp Fiction in 1994; Miramax, then a Disney subsidiary, is said to explain the choice. The building adjoined Walt Disney Imagineering.
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