The 20th Century Fox that sold off its 260-acre backlot 50 years ago in a Hail Mary attempt to save the cash-strapped studio is today adding upwards of 1.1-million square feet to its campus at 10201 W. Pico Boulevard.
20th Century Fox, sitting on a 52.9-acre lot, has filed for new facilities with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, indicating that improvements include creative office space; a specialty stage; and facility support, retail amenities and utility buildings. Fox has also applied for a master conditional-use permit that would allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at three new restaurants planned on the lot, as well as four existing venues, according to Urbanize L.A.
Century City’s namesake studio is expanding during the area’s growth spurt. Down the street, Westfield Century City is undergoing an $800 million facelift, the proposed $2.5 billion Century Plaza hotel redevelopment is adding two highrise apartments, and developer Crescent Heights is well into construction on a 40-story tower complete with 283 luxury apartments.
