McCarthy Starts $83M Film, TV Complex

IRVINE, CA-McCarthy Building Cos. has started construction on an $82.8 million Education and Social Sciences Building at UC Santa Barbara that will house film and television programs for a number of university programs as well as an expanded facility for its autism treatment program. The complex will consist of three buildings totaling 209,570 sf, providing facilities for the university’s College of Letters and Science; its Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media and for the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.

The College of Letters and Science portion of the development will house various departments of the college and will occupy a four-story, 96,700-sf building. The building will include classrooms, offices, meeting rooms and film archives.

For the Carsey-Wolf Center, McCarthy will build a 298-seat digital movie theater, which will be a classroom by day and public theater by night. The theater will be part of the Film, Television and New Media Building.