The decaying former headquarters of aviation giant Howard Hughes—including the enormous hangar where the reclusive billionaire built his famous Spruce Goose airplane—will be turned into a creative office campus. The hangar is currently used as a sound stage for movie and television production—much of “Avatar” was filmed there—and will be upgraded to contain five sound stages that can be used simultaneously.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/14/business/la-fi-playa-vista-20101015
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