Disney/ABC's new studio in Santa Clarita

Tom Morrow · 10-28-2009, 08:01 PM

Disney/ABC to build a new studio in Santa Clarita

Disney building Santa Clarita production facility
The Ranch primarily will serve needs of ABC Studios

The Hollywood Reporter
Disney is planning to build a 12-stage production facility at its Golden Oak Ranch in the Santa Clarita Valley to serve primarily the needs of ABC Studios.

Disney and ABC Studios have filed applications with Los Angeles County for Disney/ABC Studios at the Ranch, a high-tech soundstage and production complex to be built in the western tip of the Golden Oak Ranch, off the 14 Freeway. The facility, which would include six pairs of soundstages as well as offices, production shops and storage, would take up 56 acres of the Golden Oak Ranch's 890 acres.

Disney has only two soundstage facilities, one on the Mouse House lot, which has virtually no usable outdoor space, and one at Prospect Studios. As a result, ABC Studios' 14 locally produced series are spread over nine lots, and those filmed at Disney Studios frequently have to go out for location shoots. When the Ranch is built, it could accommodate about four established and as many as six freshman shows, said ABC Studios' executive director production Richard Ballering.

"The synergy of indoor and outdoor production" that would keep series shoots on the lot full-time was the main draw for going with the construction plan for the Golden Oak Ranch, which will continue to have 195 acres of outdoor filming/movie ranch, Ballering said.
by Nellie Andreeva

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Executioner · 10-28-2009, 09:10 PM

That is awesome. This is also going to open more jobs for many people in the area too. It is about time Disney built more soundstages and such for production shoots. They seem to be taking all the space they have in Burbank and turning into offices for the corporation. Pretty soon there won't be a Disney studios in Burbank, it will just be the corporate headquarters.

PeoplemoverMatt · 10-29-2009, 05:10 AM

Awesome! More filming here is great!

MVP · 10-29-2009, 06:20 AM

makes senses, why pay another company for television programs, like Desperate House Wife's is filmed at Universal Studios.

PeoplemoverMatt · 10-29-2009, 09:22 PM

The local newspaper says this will bring a $533 Million economic boost to the local area.

barfownz · 10-30-2009, 12:26 PM

Great to hear!

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Executioner The name says it all People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Between this world and the next. Posts: 2,196 Images: 70	That is awesome. This is also going to open more jobs for many people in the area too. It is about time Disney built more soundstages and such for production shoots. They seem to be taking all the space they have in Burbank and turning into offices for the corporation. Pretty soon there won't be a Disney studios in Burbank, it will just be the corporate headquarters. __________________ A Different Kind Of Company A Different Kind Of Executioner
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PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,745 Images: 18	Awesome! More filming here is great! __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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PeoplemoverMatt An Objective Perspective People who found this post helpful: Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Valencia, CA Posts: 4,745 Images: 18	The local newspaper says this will bring a $533 Million economic boost to the local area. __________________ "I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." -- Charles Augustus Lindberg "Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." -- Walter Elias Disney "So are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him...so we too might walk in the newness of life." -- Romans 6:1-4
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