Studio City (Macau)
Studio City is a hotel and casino resort in Macau. It is Asia's first leisure resort to integrate television and film production facilities, retail, gaming and hotels. It is jointly developed by U.S. investment firms Silver Point Capital LP and Oaktree Capital Management LLC and a Hong Kong entertainment company, eSun Holdings Ltd. In June 2011, Melco Entertainment took over a 60% share of the property developer. Studio City Macau held its grand opening on 27 October 2015.
History
The US$2 billion project is being built on Macau's Cotai Strip and is expected to open sometime in 2015. But the Hong Kong and U.S. investors have been locked in three years of bitter disputes, meaning the six-million-square-foot development remains a vacant patch of land and a big problem for the project's backers.
In an effort to end the dispute, meetings took place in London, Hong Kong and the private office of Macau's then-chief executive. Finally, eSun late in 2009 sued Mr. Friedman's consortium in Hong Kong courts. The case is still pending.
Studio City, Los Angeles
Studio City is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California, in the San Fernando Valley. It is named after the studio lot that was established in the area by film producer Mack Sennett in 1927, now known as CBS Studio Center.
History
Originally known as Laurelwood, the area Studio City occupies was formerly part of Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando. This land changed hands several times during the late 19th Century and was eventually owned by James Boon Lankershim (1850–1931), and eight other developers who organized the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company. In 1899, however, the area lost most water rights to Los Angeles and was no longer viable for farming.
Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct began in 1908 and water reached the San Fernando Valley in November, 1913. Real estate boomed, and a syndicate led by Harry Chandler, business manager of the Los Angeles Times, with Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Isaac Van Nuys, and James Boon Lankershim acquired the remaining 47,500 acres (192 km2) of the southern half of the former Mission lands—everything west of the Lankershim town limits and south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard excepting the Rancho Encino. Whitley platted the area of present-day Studio City from portions of the existing town of Lankershim as well as the eastern part of the new acquisition.
Studio City (disambiguation)
Studio City may refer to:
Studio City may also refer to:
Studio City (album)
Studio City is the second album by Electric Company, released on March 10, 1998, on Island Records.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Brad Laner, except "Darken An' Slobbering", "Greenland" and "Born Algebra Skinned" co-written with Kenneth James Gibson.
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