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Lucas Sinks 'Stake' for Growing SF Film Community

SAN FRANCISCO, CA-Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas broke ground on the $300-million Letterman Digital Arts facility, which he says will "put a stake in the ground" for San Francisco as a filmmaking city.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on February 10, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO, CA-Movie mogul George Lucas broke ground this weekend on the $30-million Letterman Digital Arts facility at San Francisco’s Presidio, which will house the offices of the newly merged Lucas companies.

Lucas recently announced that he is combining his film production, video game and special effects companies under one name, Lucasfilm Ltd. The four companies, Lucas Digital, LucasArts Entertainment, Lucas Licensing and Lucasfilm will relocate from Marin to the 850,000-sf Digital Arts Center campus in 2005, when the project is completed.

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