After several years of planning and proposals in different cities, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, funded by the “Star Wars” filmmaker George Lucas, is breaking ground today on a new building here that its leaders predict will take about four years to complete.
Designed by Ma Yansong of MAD Architects, the museum will occupy a corner of Exposition Park, an urban hub near the University of Southern California that already contains three museums [...].
— The New York Times
After protective fencing went up last month at its Exposition Park site in South Los Angeles, the $1-billion Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, designed by MAD Architects, finally broke ground today.
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Wait, so a project that was supposed to be built in 2 different cities, has had a ground breaking in a third, and LACMA still can't get going? Labrea is some sticky stuff.
The pitch to Chicago and other cities was a scam to get the city to pay for the land and, upkeep and a huge part of the museum's construction cost. This was a huge game, like Amazon is doing now, to get concessions from the prospective locations.
Over and OUT
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