Posted on 04/13/2012 4:59:17 PM PDT by jmcenanly
SAN FRANCISCO — George Lucas' empire is striking back in its long-running battle to build a palatial film studio in the pastoral hills north of San Francisco.
Lucasfilm Ltd., the force behind the Star Wars movies, shocked Marin County on Tuesday by announcing that it is abandoning the controversial Grady Ranch project, citing bitter opposition from neighbors and delays in the approval process.
The company said it would build its new digital media production studio elsewhere and hopes to sell the historic farmland to a developer interested in constructing low-income housing.
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LOL. The empire strikes back!
The empire strikes back.
Beat me by 34 seconds!!
Low income housing. In Marin.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
If he really wants to stick it in their eye, he’d build it in Texas.
Even the commie lib 1% get fed up with all of the liberal bull**** that they have to put up with from their comrades.
Bwahahahahaha, a hoodie with every home. Pray you don't become prey, Lucas Valley homeowners.
under $2 million
Give the farmland to sharecroppers.
I love it. I loathe both groups. I have zero sympathy for Lucas, who is the very picture of limosine liberalism. Remember before the 2008 election, when he said that he based the evil Empire from his movies on the United States government? To hell with him. It’s kind of like the Spanish Civil War, where you had Communists vs. Fascists. Why help either side? Grab some popcorn, sit back, and watch them destroy each other.
Have a hard time seeing this in any light except one group of leftists going after another leftist. Can we make it so they both lose?
It'll be off the rack suits and 3 series BMWs as far as the eye can see.
Your contribution is noted, Lucas.
“Umm Lead to the dark side of the Force, anger does. Shut up, you County bureauweenies must. Or Section 8 it is.”
Corporatists (fascists) are not the dictators they wannbe in the US. These are the slimy idiots who put the left in power in California in exchange for “cooperation.”
They are mad because the leftists did not jump through their hoops and order this community to develop as ordered by the “empire.” All their authoritian tolerance is in exchange for their favor among the centralized “rulers.”
IMO, “Libertarian” corporate egos suck. They should have moved where they were welcome to develop without the leftist ghetto housing temper tamptrum. They should act as real adults running a real business...
The “libertarian” commies expect special powers over all others since they are the ones who put the left in power in California. Real adults would just move the business to a more friendly place instead of tossing a homo tizzy.
What the frack are you talking about??
I hated Marin. I got the hell outta there. I couldn't get out fast enough!
Lucas should have known what to expect. I did. If he were thinking clearly, he would have. It was obvious. It still is. What you see is what you get.
Read sumore Any Rand... Keep yourself in libertarian dreamland.
“Dale said any proposed housing development on the property would have to be “suited to the zoning, the people who live here and the people who come here.”
That’s Marin County speak for No Section 8 or Blacks allowed. They’ve been using Green Laws to keep low income out for years. I’ve been to the Ranch twice. It is not the great melting pot up there.
I hope it’s all Section 8 housing.
Actually, they very nearly are.
I do agree with your remark that leftists like Lucas assume they'll get a pass when they want to do something. Its amusing to see them tripped up by the same attitudes they themselves share toward anyone else.
They should have moved where they were welcome to develop
I say the same thing all the time. Why would anyone in their right mind build anything in California? Build where they want you. If that happens to be China, or Dubai, or North Carolina, so be it. Wasting a decade of your life trying to get permission to build in a place where the planners have run amuck is simply not worth it; life is too short. Take your money and your jobs and your technology and go where they are prepared to work with you.
I've been involved with a couple of industries that were leaving the US and I understand exactly where they are coming from.
Low-income housing?
Can’t wait for those uptight libs to notice Trayvon poking around their neighborhood with his “burglary tool.”
I thought this was the studios @ the Presidio ?
God NO..we don’t want him or his whiney backside in Texas. Let him stay in CA among his own kind.
Low income housing in his area of Marin=1.0 million
What the matter? Couldn't handle all the T.M. and Self-Actualization group meetings? LOL
I’ve been involved with a couple of industries that were leaving the US and I understand exactly where they are coming from.
As the prissy sh!ts move out of the US to get even with those who disobey them to communist China, I look forward to the day that China’s current system of one party slave labor explodes and they get a load of problems that are not burdened by the American justice system and population.
Really, I look forward to the political and social ideology of globalism to bite the stupid, self serving corporatist traitors in the azz. It’s going to happen. Communism and poverty is not Utopia. They are cutting off their noses to spite their faces in the long run.
These azzez just needed to move on to Texas or some other business friendly state rather than playing their fascist politics in California against a commmunity. They will pay.
We have enough development and people here in California to last for another 50 years.
I say you encourage them to most their crap to Texas, and build there.
The greedy corrupt developers who hire nothing but illegal aliens will enjoy the wind swept plain of Texas...Not so sure about the Hollywood types though.
Good luck trying to convince everyone to move to Texas.
If I could, I'd send ya 10 million tomorrow.
Just watch out for the wealthy corrupt developers...I can guarantee you they'll build 20,000 greedy marts across the wind swept Texas plains, which will all be owned by Muslims...To feed all the illegals who will be living in the 20,000 5-story pink apartment buildings the greedy developers will build across the flat lands of Texas.
In fact, these criminal developers hire nothing but illegal aliens, and will turn the Alamo into a medical clinica for pregnant illegals if ya turn your backs. Trust me.
I encourage all greedy commercial developers to leave this state.
The Jar-Jar Binks Low Income Housing Project
Considering the first movie came out in the Carter era and the second trilogy debuted in the Clinton era, it isn't that hard to see where he got his ideas.
I thought low income housing was illegal in Marin County! lol
I got the perfect name for it too : Marin City II.
Having lived in Marin for 30 years, I can't think of a better monument for Barbara Bouncer, the huge frog and her original "tiny pond."
Google "Marin City."
You've obviously never been to Marin City, a major source for pimps who find the naive daughters of lefty entrepreneurs prime pickings for their stables, and drug dealers to the rich and famous, or visited East San Rafael, where only illegal Hispanics dare live, and which supplies dish washers, gardeners, and manual labor to much of Marin.
There are wonderful people in Marin, though they are vastly outnumbered, and it's beautiful. But I couldn't wait to get out. I'm so glad I did.
I worked for the Republican Party. Every time I put up a "Vote Republican" sign, it was jerked down fast, no matter how inaccessable. When I put them up late at night, they were down by morning. This was not true in San Francisco; the signs stayed up.
At the gym, the conversations overheard were mostly self-congratulation. "I took my kids to _________. I wanted them to know that things everywhere are not like they are in Marin."
There is so much that I love about Marin, but that Leftist attitude is just too oppressive.
There are wonderful people in Marin, though they are vastly outnumbered, and it's beautiful. But I couldn't wait to get out. I'm so glad I did.
I worked for the Republican Party. Every time I put up a "Vote Republican" sign, it was jerked down fast, no matter how inaccessable. When I put them up late at night, they were down by morning. This was not true in San Francisco; the signs stayed up.
At the gym, the conversations overheard were mostly self-congratulation. "I took my kids to _________. I wanted them to know that things everywhere are not like they are in Marin."
There is so much that I love about Marin, but that Leftist attitude is just too oppressive.
No, this is Skywalker Ranch in Marin.
Luv both places. Did some structured cable work for them a few years ago
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