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New Lucas Headquarters To Open in San Francisco

Posted by timothy on from the empire-building dept.

Afroloop writes "This article (with pics) in the SFGate covers the opening of the new Lucas Headquarters in San Francisco's famous Presidio. It will house up to 1,500 employees by next fall. From the article: 'The Presidio will feature 600 miles of fiber-optic cable. 4,000 processors and 150 terabytes of storage -- massive computing power and speed, with the ability to work 10 times faster than they can today.'"

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  1. Re:That's funny. by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Presidio" means "military fortification" in Spanish.

    The Presidio used to be a Spanish military base, then a Mexican military base, and then I think it was briefly military base for California when we were briefly a soverign entity, and then finally, it remained an American military base from 1849 until the early 1990s.

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  2. not even tops on the Presidio ... by akb · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... for storage. That honor goes to the Internet Archive with over 500TB.

  3. Presidio is required to be self-supporting by aaronrp · · Score: 4, Informative

    From http://www.nps.gov/prsf/

    On October 1, 1994, the Presidio became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Since 1998, the Presidio has been jointly managed by the National Park Service and the Presidio Trust. The Presidio Trust is a special public-private governmental agency tasked with managing most of the buildings of the Presidio and making the park financially self-sufficient by 2013.

    Certain areas are rented to non-profit groups, and much is set aside for public space, but development in the Presidio is required for it to pay for itself. It is the only National Park Service unit expected to do so.

    The Presidio Trust site is here.

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  4. A give away of public resources? by doom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not everyone is happy about Lucasfilm moving to the Presido. Here's a sample: from the San Francisco Bay Guardian

  5. New Lucas Headquarters by Knightcrawler · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lucas bid on putting something on the Presidio as a lark and was surprised when he won. The new headquarters combines all of Lucas's companies into I place; Lucas Arts, Lucasfilm, THX, ILM, Lucas Merchandising. Before this alot of it was at Skywalker Ranch and the rest scattered throughout California. He thought that since the video game company and the movie company were often working in much the same thing that they should work together more. Also, no more episodes even after he dies. Lucas has specifically made it so that no one can use the Star Wars property after he dies.

    1. Re:New Lucas Headquarters by malducin · · Score: 3, Informative

      Not all the companies are moving to the Presidio. Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound will still be based at the Ranch, while ILM will retain some operations in San Rafael. Also THX was spun off from Lucasfilm in 2002.