DISNEY GROUP GOING GREEN : IMAGINEERING TO GET MAKEOVER.Byline: Dave McNary Staff Writer Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. announced plans on Wednesday for an ambitious makeover of its Imagineering theme-park design operations, transforming dozens of concrete tilt-up buildings into a 125-acre, college-style campus in west Glendale. The entertainment giant, which has operated Imagineering in a nondescript non·de·script adj. Lacking distinctive qualities; having no individual character or form: "This expression gave temporary meaning to a set of features otherwise nondescript" industrial park since 1961, will build a series of four- to six-story buildings. The Grand Central Creative Campus, or GC3, will be surrounded by green belts, parkways, courtyards, walkways, tree-lined streets and planted medians. ``The campus would be a state-of-the-art workplace that is simple and elegant,'' said Ed Chuchla, Imagineering's director of development. ``There would be green corridors running all the way through it and we'd no longer have huge megablocks of nothing but buildings.'' Disney executives gave no projection how much the project will cost or how many new jobs it will create. They said the basic idea will be to generate creativity and job satisfaction among the 3,000 employees who design theme parks, Disney's most consistent profit generator. Disney, which projects the first new building could be available for occupancy in 2004, wants to eliminate Grand Central Avenue and Circle Seven Drive. But as part of an acknowledgment acknowledgment, in law, formal declaration or admission by a person who executed an instrument (e.g., a will or a deed) that the instrument is his. The acknowledgment is made before a court, a notary public, or any other authorized person. of the property's history, Disney will restore the Grand Central Terminal building, erected eight decades ago when the property operated as an airport. Disney executives will take the first formal step this fall by asking the city of Glendale to conduct an environmental impact study. The 125 acres lie within the city's San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the Redevelopment Corridor, which includes DreamWorks' animation campus and Disney's future KABC-TV (Channel 7) studios. Jeanne Armstrong, Glendale's director of development, said the proposal should help bring jobs and improve the corridor, a two-mile sliver sliver in wool processing a continuous band of carded and combed wool which has not yet been twisted into yarn. of land to the east of the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. . ``It's exactly what we were hoping for,'' she added. But Disney won't make Imagineering's revamped home into a tourist destination A tourist destination is a city, town or other area the economy of which is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism. It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". . |
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