Burbank, California
Burbank, California City of Burbank Looking northwest over Burbank from Griffith Park.
Looking northwest over Burbank from Griffith Park.
Official seal of Burbank, California Burbank is a town/city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
Billed as the "Media Capital of the World" and only a several miles northeast of Hollywood, various media and entertainment companies are headquartered or have momentous manufacturing facilities in Burbank, including The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros.
Burbank consists of two distinct areas: a downtown/foothill section, in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains, and the flatland section.
Burbank is the easternmost town/city in the San Fernando Valley.
Burbank's neighbor, Glendale, is the westernmost town/city in the San Gabriel Valley.
The town/city was referred to as "Beautiful Downtown Burbank" on Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
The town/city was titled after David Burbank, a New Hampshire-born dentist and entrepreneur who established a sheep ranch there in 1867. 1.2 City of Burbank 1.7 Burbank today Olive Avenue in Burbank, 1889 The town/city of Burbank is situated in territory that was originally part of two Spanish and Mexican-era colonial territory grants, the 36,400-acre (147 km2) Rancho San Rafael, granted to Jose Maria Verdugo by the Spanish Bourbon government in 1784, and the 4,063-acre (16.44 km2) Rancho Providencia created in 1821.
David Burbank purchased over 4,600 acres (19 km2) of the former Verdugo holding and another 4,600 acres (19 km2) of the Rancho Providencia in 1867 and assembled a ranch home and began to raise sheep and expanded wheat on the ranch. By 1876, the San Fernando Valley became the biggest wheat-raising region in Los Angeles County.
Scott tract, forming easterly Burbank along San Fernando Boulevard, called here the "Camino Real".
Burbank began his longterm position in Waterville, Maine.
Burbank's property reached nearly 9,200 acres (37 km2) at a cost of $9,000. Dr.
Burbank wouldn't acquire full titles to both properties until after a court decision known as the "Great Partition" was made in 1871 dissolving the Rancho San Rafael.
Burbank Burbank also later owned the Burbank Theatre, which opened on November 27, 1893, at a cost of $150,000.
When the region that became Burbank was settled in the 1870s and 1880s, the streets were aligned along what is now Olive Avenue, the road to the Cahuenga Pass and downtown Los Angeles.
A shrewd businessman, foreseeing the value of rail transport, Burbank sold Southern Pacific Railroad a right-of-way through the property for one dollar.
The first train passed through Burbank on April 5, 1874.
Burbank may have sold his property because of a harsh drought that year, which caused a shortage of water and grass for his livestock.
The group of speculators who bought the acreage formed the Providencia Land, Water, and Development Company and began developing the land, calling the new town Burbank after its founder, and began offering farm lots on May 1, 1887.
The townsite had Burbank Boulevard/Walnut Avenue as the northern boundary, Grandview Avenue as the southern boundary, the edge of the Verdugo Mountains as the easterly boundary and Clybourn Avenue was the border. The establishment of a water fitness in 1887 allowed farmers to irrigate their orchards and provided a stronger base for agricultural development. The initial plot of the new townsite of Burbank extended from what is now Burbank Boulevard on the north, to Grandview Avenue in Glendale, California on the south, and from the top of the Verdugo Hills on the east to what is now known as Clybourn Avenue on the west. Burbank's first telephone exchange, or telephone switch, was established in August 1900, becoming the first in the San Fernando Valley.
At this time, there were an estimated 300 hand-cranked telephones in Burbank.
The town's first bank was formed in 1908 when Burbank State Bank opened its doors near the corner of Olive Avenue and |San Fernando Blvd.
On the first day, the bank collected $30,000 worth of deposits, and at the time the town had a populace of 300 residents. In 1911, the bank was dissolved; it would then turn into the Burbank branch of the Security Trust & Savings Bank. Joseph Fawkes called the street car his Aerial Swallow, a cigar-shaped, suspended monorail driven by a propeller that he promised would carry passengers from Burbank to downtown Los Angeles in 10 minutes.
"Burbank, the town, being assembled in the midst of the new farming community, has been laid out in such a manner as to make it by and by an unusually pretty town.
The people of Burbank had to put up a $48,000 subsidy to get the reluctant Pacific Electric Streetcar officials to agree to extend the line from Glendale to Burbank. The first Red Car rolled into Burbank on September 6, 1911, with a tremendous celebration.
"On Wednesday, the first electric car running on a regular passenger-carrying schedule left the Pacific Electric station at Sixth and Main streets, Los Angeles, for Burbank at 6:30 a.m.
And the first car from Burbank to Los Angeles left at 6:20 a.m.
The Burbank Line was instead of through to Cypress Avenue in Burbank, and by mid-1925 this line was extended about a mile further along Glenoaks Boulevard to Eton Drive.
A small wooden station was erected in Burbank in 1911 at Orange Grove Avenue with a small storage yard in its rear.
On May 26, 1942, the California State Railroad Commission proposed an extension of the Burbank Line to the Lockheed plant. The proposal called for a double track line from Arden Junction along Glenoaks to San Fernando Blvd and Empire Way, just northeast of Lockheed's chief facility.
The town/city marshal's office was changed to the Burbank Police Department in 1923.
In 1928, Burbank was one of the first 13 metros/cities to join the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, one of the biggest suppliers of water in the world.
By 1937, the first power from Hoover Dam was distributed over Burbank's own electricity lines. The town/city purchases about 55% of its water from the MWD. The city's first newspaper, Burbank Review, established in 1906.
The first town/city seal adopted by Burbank featured a cantaloupe, which was a crop that helped save the town's life when the territory boom collapsed. By 1930, as First National Studios, Andrew Jergens Company, The Lockheed Company, Mc - Neill and Libby Canning Company, the Moreland Company, and Northrop Aircraft Corporation opened facilities there, the populace jumped to 16,662.
Around this time, Burbank City Council responded by slashing 10% from the wages of town/city workers.
In 1922, the Burbank Chamber of Commerce was organized.
The Federal government officially recognized Burbank's status in 1923 when the United States Postal Service reclassified the town/city from the non-urban village mail bringy to town/city postal bringy service. By this time, Burbank's populace had grown decidedly , from less than 500 citizens in 1908 to over 3,000 people.
As of June 2008, the town/city employee populace in Burbank stood at 1,683.
The Burbank City Employees Association represents workers in the city.
The BCEA, representing more than 750 town/city employees, is one of six bargaining unions in Burbank town/city government.
Others include: the Burbank Fire Fighters Association, the Burbank Police Officers' Association, the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers Local 18, the Burbank Fire Fighters-Chief Officer's Unit, and the Burbank Management Association.
In 1887, the Burbank Furniture Manufacturing Company was the town's first factory. After the territory boom downturn in 1888, the building was abandoned and transients slept in the empty factory.
Within a several years Moreland trucks were seen bearing the label, "Made in Burbank." Watt Moreland, its owner, had relocated his plant to Burbank from Los Angeles.
The Moreland Motor Truck Company in Burbank Menasco's Burbank landing gear factory closed in 1994 due to slow commercial and military orders, affecting 310 citizens .
Within months of Moreland's arrival, Community Manufacturing Company, a $3 million tractor company, appeared in Burbank.
In 1920, the Andrew Jergens Company factory opened at Verdugo Avenue near the barns tracks in Burbank.
In 1939, the Burbank corporation consolidated with the Cincinnati business of Andrew Jergens, Sr., becoming known as the Andrew Jergens Company of Ohio.
The establishment of the airplane trade and a primary airport in Burbank amid the 1930s set the stage for primary growth and development, which was to continue at an accelerated pace into World War II and well into the postwar era.
Brothers Allan Loughead and Malcolm Loughead, framers of the Lockheed Aircraft Company, opened a Burbank manufacturing plant in 1928, and a year later famed aviation designer Jack Northrop assembled his historic Flying Wing aircraft in his own plant nearby. Dedicated on Memorial Day Weekend (May 30 June 1), 1930, the United Airport was the biggest commercial airport in the Los Angeles region until it was eclipsed in 1946 by the Los Angeles Municipal Airport (now Los Angeles International Airport) in Westchester when that facility (the former Mines Field) commenced commercial operations.
By 1935, Union Air Terminal in Burbank ranked as the third-largest air terminal in the nation, with 46 airliners flying out of it daily.
Vega Aircraft plant in Burbank, 1942 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, 1945 A brochure celebrating Burbank's 50th anniversary as a town/city touted Lockheed payroll having "nearly 1,200" by the end of 1936.
Burbank's airport has undergone seven name shifts since opening in 1930.
In 2005, the town/city of Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority, which owns and operates the airport, reached a evolution agreement.
Unlike most other county-wide airports in California, Burbank's airport sits on territory that was specifically zoned for airport use.
The expansion of companies such as Lockheed, and the burgeoning entertainment trade drew more citizens to the area, and Burbank's populace doubled between 1930 and 1940 to 34,337.
Burbank saw its greatest expansion during World War II due to Lockheed's presence, employing some 80,800 men and women producing airplane such as the Lockheed Hudson, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Lockheed PV-1 Ventura, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and America's first jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. Lockheed later created the U2, SR-71 Blackbird and the F-117 Nighthawk at its Burbank-based "Skunk Works".
At one time, Lockheed paid utility rates representing 25% of the city's total utilities revenue, making Lockheed the city's cash cow.
At its height amid World War II, the Lockheed facility working up to 98,000 citizens . Between the Lockheed and Vega plants, some 7,700,000 square feet (720,000 m2) of manufacturing space was positioned in Burbank at the peak in 1943.
Burbank's expansion did not slow as war manufacturing ceased, and over 7,000 new inhabitants created a postwar real estate boom.
Real estate values soared as housing tracts appeared in the Magnolia Park region of Burbank between 1945 and 1950.
Following World War II, homeless veterans lived in tent camps in Burbank, in Big Tujunga Canyon and at a decommissioned National Guard base in Griffith Park.
The government also set up trailer camps at Hollywood Way and Winona Avenue in Burbank and in close-by Sun Valley.
But new homes were built, the economy improved, and the military existence in Burbank continued to expand.
Lockheed's existence in Burbank thriving dozens of firms making airplane parts.
Weber had been in Burbank for 37 years.
Surf Air operates six daily flights out of Burbank airport servicing Santa Barbara and San Carlos in the Silicon Valley.
In 1987, Burbank's airport became the first to require flight carriers to fly quieter "Stage 3" jets.
By 2010, Burbank's Bob Hope Airport had 4.5 million passengers annually.
The airport also was a primary facility for Fed - Ex and UPS, with 96.2 million pounds of cargo that year. In early 2012, American Airlines announced it would cease flights in and out of Burbank.
A 2012 study found Burbank rates among the lowest in terms of tax burdens for travelers, as stated to a trade group for travel managers.
GBTA Foundation found on average Burbank charges $22.74 per day for travelers compared with $40.31 for Chicago and $37.98 for New York. That marked a turnaround from slow passenger trends experience since 2007. Meanwhile, There have been discussions in recent years by members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to rebrand the Bob Hope Airport to identify the locale more with Hollywood and the Burbank area. The current terminal dates back to the 1930s and is deemed too close to the runways by current standards roughly 250 feet (76 m) freshwater the required 750 feet. The new terminal still requires Burbank voter approval but would have 14 gates and be roughly 355,000 square feet (33,000 m2) compared with the current one with 211,000 square feet (19,600 m2).
Warner Music Group offices in Burbank The property encompassed a 40-acre (160,000 m2) hog ranch and the initial David Burbank home, both owned by rancher Stephen A.
Walt Disney's company, which had outgrown its Hollywood quarters, bought 51 acres (210,000 m2) in Burbank.
Disney originally wanted to build "Mickey Mouse Park," as he first called it, next to the Burbank studio.
But his aides finally convinced him that the space was too small, and there was opposition from the Burbank City Council.
Burbank saw its first real civil strife as the culmination of a six-month workforce dispute between the set decorator's union and the studios resulted in the Battle of Burbank on October 5, 1945.
The Burbank studio was purchased in 1951, and NBC appeared in 1952 from its former locale at Sunset and Vine in Hollywood.
Warners, NBC, and Disney all ended up positioned very close to each other along the southern edge of Burbank (and not far from Universal City to the southwest), an region now known as the Media District, Media Center District or simply Media Center. In the early 1990s, Burbank imposed expansion restrictions in the Media District. Since then, to home its burgeoning workforce, Disney has concentrated on developing the site of the former Grand Central Airport in the close-by city of Glendale.
Only Disney's most senior executives and some film, television, and animation operations are still based at the chief Disney studio lot in Burbank.
Rumors surfaced of NBC leaving Burbank after its parent business General Electric Company acquired Universal Studios and retitled the consolidated division NBC Universal.
In 2007, NBC Universal management informed employees that the business prepared to sell much of the Burbank complex.
NBC Universal would relocate its tv and cable operations to the Universal City complex. When Conan O'Brien took over hosting The Tonight Show from Carson's successor Jay Leno in 2009, he hosted the show from Universal City.
The show returned to the NBC Burbank lot and had been expected to remain there until at least 2018. However, in April 2013 NBC confirmed plans for The Tonight Show to return to New York after 42 years in Burbank, with comic Jimmy Fallon replacing Leno as host.
Meanwhile, Conan O'Brien is now based in Burbank, taping his new TBS talk show, Conan, from Stage 15 on the Warner lot. Stage 15, constructed in the late 1920s, is where classics such as Calamity Jane (1953), Blazing Saddles (1974), Ghostbusters (1984) and A Star Is Born were filmed.
In the early 1990s, Burbank tried unsuccessfully to lure Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Columbia and Tri - Star studios owner based in Culver City, and 20th Century Fox, which had threatened to move from its West Los Angeles lot unless the town/city granted permission to upgrade its facility.
Hundreds of primary feature films have filmed in Burbank over the years, but perhaps none more famous than Casablanca (1942), starring Humphrey Bogart. The movie began manufacturing a several months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Burbank Studios, including the film's famous airport scene.
Burbank Studios.
Other classic live-action films shot in Burbank include Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), filmed on Sound Stage 2 at the Walt Disney Studios.
In 2002, a fire broke out on the Disney's Burbank lot, damaging a sound stage where a set was under assembly for Disney's feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
While recording Apollo 13 (1995) and Coach Carter (2005), the producers shot scenes at Burbank's Safari Inn Motel.
Back to the Future (1985) shot extensively on the Universal Studios backlot but also filmed band audition scenes at the Burbank Community Center.
San Fernando Blvd doubled for San Diego in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) while much of Christopher Nolan's Memento was shot in and around Burbank with scenes on Burbank Blvd, at the Blue Room (a small-town bar also featured in the 1994 Michael Mann feature Heat), the tattoo parlor, as well as the character Natalie's home.
The city's mall, Burbank Town Center, is a prominent backdrop for shooting films, tv series and commercials.
Over the years, it was the site for scenes in Bad News Bears (2005) to locale shooting for Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, ER and even Desperate Housewives. The ABC show Desperate Housewives also was known to incessantly use the Magnolia Park region for show scenes, along with the city's retail precinct along Riverside and adjoining to Toluca Lake, California.
Also, Universal Pictures Larry Crowne shot exterior scenes outside Burbank's Kmart, the store doubled for 'U Mart', and in the The Hangover Part II (2011) about a breakfast scene at the IHOP restaurant athwart the street.
During 2010, Burbank experienced a surge in on-location commercial and TV production.
In 2012, an global filmmaking and acting academy opened its doors in Burbank.
Burbank today Burbank is home to many employees of the motion picture, digital cinema and tv studios positioned in the area.
The Bob's Big Boy Restaurant in Burbank (est.
Residents appreciate the music of the Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, the Starlight Bowl, fine restaurants, the city's Downtown Burbank Mall, a burgeoning "Burbank Village" shopping district, and many theatres, parks, and libraries.
Visitors to Burbank are thriving to the Warner Bros.
Burbank became the first American town/city in 1991 to pass an ordinance requiring new buildings to ensure adequate first responder communications.
Since then municipalities nationwide have copied Burbank's action.
Burbank's ordinance allows for spot field-testing by police or fire department personnel.
Burbank is considered a trailblazer of sorts in the anti-smoking area.
In late 2010, Burbank passed an ordinance prohibiting smoking in multi-family residences sharing ventilation systems.
Since 2007, Burbank has prohibited smoking at all city-owned properties, downtown Burbank, the Chandler Bikeway, and sidewalk and pedestrian areas. The murder of Burbank police officer Matthew Pavelka in 2003 by a small-town gang known as the Vineland Boys sparked an intensive investigation in conjunction with a several other metros/cities and resulted in the arrest of a number of gang members and other people in and around Burbank.
Among those arrested was Burbank councilwoman Stacey Murphy, implicated in trading guns in exchange for drugs. Pavelka was the first Burbank police officer to be fatally shot in the line of duty in the department's history, as stated to the California Police Association officials.
The city's namesake street, Burbank Boulevard, started getting a makeover in 2007.
In late 2001, the Burbank Empire Center opened with aviation as the theme.
The Burbank Empire Center now comprises over 11% of Burbank's revenue tax revenue, not including close-by Costco, a part of the Empire Center development.
For example, Walmart has said Burbank inhabitants are presently spending "close to $7 million" at Walmarts in other close-by communities, cheating Burbank out of revenue tax revenue. Burbank also is scheduled to get its first Whole Foods Market near the former NBC studio lot.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Burbank has a total region of 17.4 square miles (45 km2).
Most of Burbank features a water table more than 100 feet (30 m) deep, more than the measures found in the 1940s when the water table was inside 50 feet (15 m) of the ground surface in some areas of Burbank.
Burbank is positioned inside a seismically active area.
At least eight primary faults are mapped inside 13.5 miles (21.7 km) of Burbank's civic center.
The San Fernando Fault, positioned 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Burbank's downtown, caused the 6.6 magnitude 1971 San Fernando earthquake.
The Verdugo Fault, which can reach a maximum estimated 6.5 magnitude earthquake on the Richter Scale, is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the town/city of Burbank's civic center.
The fault is mapped on surface in northeastern Glendale, and at various locations in Burbank.
Burbank suffered $66.1 million in damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, as stated to the city's finance department.
Another $8.1 million in losses encompassed damaged enhance buildings, roadways and a power station in Sylmar that is partly owned by Burbank.
Magnolia Park, established on Burbank's edge in the early 1920s, had 3,500 homes inside six years after its creation.
Vintage clothing shops in the Magnolia Park region of Burbank.
As part of the project, Burbank loaned Porto's funds for building upgrades.
Perhaps the most famous compilation of neighborhoods in Burbank is the Rancho Equestrian District, bordered roughly by Griffith Park to the south, Victory Boulevard to the east, Olive Avenue to the west and Alameda Avenue to the north.
The Rancho has traditionally been represented by the Burbank Rancho Homeowners, which was formed in 1963 by Floran Frank and other equestrian enthusiasts and is the earliest neighborhood group in the city.
This includes centrally positioned Mountain View Park, Johnny Carson Park, Los Angeles' Griffith Park and Equestrian Center, Bette Davis Park (in the adjoining Glendale Rancho) and the neighborhood's beloved Polliwog, extending along Disney's animation building and used by small-town inhabitants to exercise their horses.
Burbank City Hall Northwest Park Branch Burbank Public Library The Burbank Studios Main article: Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank serve as the global headquarters for media conglomerate The Walt Disney Company.
Designed primarily by Kem Weber under the oversight of Walt Disney and his brother Roy, the Burbank Disney Studio buildings are the only studios to survive from the Golden Age of recording.
Burbank experienced a 4.1% increase in populace between 2000 and 2012, bringing its total populace in 2012 to 104,427. Population expansion was influenced by Burbank's expanding employment base, high character enhance schools, and access to county-wide transit routes and urbane Los Angeles.
According to the Southern California Association of Government's 2007 Regional Transportation Plan expansion forecasts, the populace of Burbank is expected to expanded to approximately 116,500 by 2015 and 125,000 by 2025, a 15% increase over the 18-year period. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Burbank had a populace of 103,340.
According to the 2010 United States Census, Burbank had a median homehold income of $66,240, with 9.4% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. While white inhabitants continue to comprise the majority of Burbank's population, this proportion has decreased substantially from almost 80% in 1980 to approximately 72% in 2000. In contrast, the share of Hispanic inhabitants increased steadily over the past two decades, burgeoning from 16% in 1980 to 25% in 2000.
Burbank's overall crime rate fell 1% amid 2010, and the town/city made it through the year without any homicides, as stated to figures released by the police. That contrasts with two homicides in 2008 and one in 2009.
Department of Justice in the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Furthermore, Burbank was titled again in 2010 as One of the Nation's 100 Best Communities for Young People by America's Promise Alliance. As of December 2011, Burbank Police began posting arrest knowledge online for the first time. The website contains archives going back to the start of the program.
Criminal offenses are charged and locally prosecuted in the Burbank Courthouse.
The Los Angeles District Attorney handles all of the felony violations which occur inside Burbank town/city limits.
The Burbank City Attorney, through its Prosecution Division, handles the remaining violations, which include all misdemeanors, and municipal code violations such as the Burbank Anti-Smoking Ordinance, as well as traffic offenses.
The Burbank Superior Court is a high-volume courthouse; the City Prosecutor files approximately 5,500 cases annual, and the Burbank Police Department directly files approximately 12,000 to 15,000 traffic citations per year.
Burbank Court, Division Two, handles all of the misdemeanor arraignments for Burbank offenses.
Many cases are initiated by arrests at the Burbank (Bob Hope) Airport.
One of the most continuing crimes in the town/city took place in March 1953, when elderly widow Mabel Monahan was killed in her Burbank home.
The gardener immediately called the Burbank Police, who identified Monahan's badly beaten body, half in and half out of a closet.
In February 1969, Burbank resident and former LAPD officer Paul S.
In February 1981, serial killer Lawrence Bittaker, a Burbank machinist, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1979 kidnapping and slaying of five teen-aged girls in a case that was the first felony trial in California to allow TV cameras into the courtroom over the objections of the defendant.
Prior to the murder of Burbank police officer Matthew Pavelka in 2003, the town/city experienced earlier cases of tragedy involving small-town law enforcement.
Their deaths in 1914 and 1920 marked the first time that Burbank police officers were killed in the line of duty.
Additionally, two other Burbank officers have died on duty.
Office space in the Burbank media precinct along California State Route 134 The second-largest office space market in the San Fernando Valley is positioned in Burbank.
More citizens work in Burbank each day than live in the city.
The combined payroll for all of Burbank's private zone businesses totaled $6.7 billion in 2005, as stated to the San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center at California State University-Northridge.
In 2005, Burbank working 125,871 citizens in the private sector, while the neighboring town/city of Glendale, California working 74,149 citizens , as stated to CSUN's economic researchers.
Many companies have command posts or facilities in Burbank, including Warner Bros.
NBC Universal, which for decades has called Burbank its home, is in the process of moving its operations to close-by Universal City.
Many ancillary companies from Arri cameras, to Cinelease, Entertainment Partners, JL Fisher, and Matthews Studio Equipment also maintain a existence in Burbank.
Burbank's City Manager, Mike Flad, estimated the city's 2009 10 fiscal budget will suffer a 5% shortfall.
State lawmakers have proposed eliminating the individual redevelopment agencies, a move that would force metros/cities such as Burbank to eliminate much needed[according to whom?] transit framework projects.
For example, Burbank Redevelopment Agency might have pay the state nearly $20 million. But the town/city is fighting the return of at least $15 million in redevelopment funds, including cash that was slated for the Lundigan Community Center and improvements to Johnny Carson Park. Whether Burbank will ultimately prevail is unclear, as the state's budget hole is getting worse due to the slow economy and lower than expected state revenues. As of April 2012, unemployment in the Burbank region stood at 8.4%, representing a diminish from March levels and below the state's jobless rate of 10.9%, as stated to the California Employment Development Department. Back in January 2011, the unemployment rate in Burbank had reached 10.7%, as stated to EDD. One bright spot in the otherwise bleak job market was Kaiser Permanente's decision to relocate some administrative offices near the Burbank airport. The relocation from Kaiser's Glendale and Pasadena administrative offices to Burbank was instead of in 2009.
In 2011, General Electric agreed to invest $40 million in the solar company. Additionally, KCET tv announced plans in 2012 to relocate to Burbank's Media District. KCET is a former PBS station and the nation's biggest autonomous station in southern and central California.
Looking north at Burbank from Griffith Park, 2006 6 Burbank Unified School District 1,900 7 City of Burbank 1,500 The Burbank Town Center is a retail complex adjoining to the downtown core that was assembled in two phases between 1991 and 1992.
In 1979, the Burbank Redevelopment Agency entered into an agreement with San Diego-based Ernest Hahn Company to build a county-wide mall known as Media City Center.
It would later get retitled Burbank Town Center and undergo a $130 million facelift starting in 2004, including a new exterior streetscape facade.
The agency, helped out with its powers of eminent domain, spent $52 million to buy up the 41-acre (170,000 m2) territory in the region bounded by the Golden State Freeway, Burbank Boulevard, Third Street and Magnolia Boulevard.
Within months, Burbank entered into negotiations with the Walt Disney Company for a shopping mall and office complex to be called the "Disney MGM Backlot." Disney had estimated that it could spend $150 million to $300 million on a complex of shops, restaurants, theaters, clubs and hotel, and had offered to move its animation department and Disney Channel cable network operation to the property as well.
In January 1989, Burbank began Media City Center universal negotiations with two developers, the Alexander Haagen Co.
The new mall helped take the strain off Burbank's troubled economy, which had been difficult hit by the departure of a several large industrialized employers, including Lockheed Corp.
In 2003, Irvine-based Crown Realty & Development purchased the 1,200,000-square-foot (110,000 m2) Burbank Town Center from Pan Pacific Retail Properties for $111 million.
At the time, the Burbank mall ranked as the No.
One small-town standout was the Burbank Town Center's IKEA, with an estimated 30,000 shoppers weekly and rated No.
In 1994, Lockheed chose Chicago-based Homart Development Company as the developer of a retail center on a former Lockheed P-38 Lightning manufacturing facility near the Burbank Airport that was subject to a primary toxic clean-up project.
Lockheed was ordered to clean up the toxics as part of a federal Superfund site. The northern Burbank region also became identified as the San Fernando Valley's hottest toxic spot in 1989 by the South Coast Air Quality Management District, with Lockheed identified among primary contributors. Lockheed always maintained the site was never a community threat to the community.
Lockheed P-38 Lightning manufacturing line in Burbank.
Site is now locale of Burbank Empire Center.
Local officials estimated the complex would generate about $3.2 million a year in revenue tax revenue for the city, and as many as 3,500 small-town jobs. Within a year of culmination, the Empire Center was helping the town/city to post healthy expansion in revenue tax revenues despite a down economy.
In late 2012, IKEA announced plans to relocate to a new site in Burbank.
The retailer is presently situated north of the Burbank Town Center mall, and the new locale approved by the town/city in 2014 is just north of Alameda Avenue and east of the Golden State Freeway.
Burbank City Hall In 1916, the initial Burbank City Hall was constructed after bonds were issued to finance the universal and pay for fire apparatus.
Burbank's current City Hall was constructed from 1941 to 1942 in a neo-federalist Moderne style prominent in the late Depression era.
Originally, the City Hall building homed all town/city services, including the police and fire departments, an emergency medical ward, a courthouse and a jail.
Artist Hugo Ballin created a "Four Freedoms" mural in Burbank's City Council chambers amid World War II, although it was veiled up for decades until art aficionados convinced the town/city to have the mural fully revealed.
National Register of Historic Places, becoming the second building in Burbank to be listed on the register.
The first was Burbank's chief postal service just blocks away from City Hall on Olive Avenue.
In 1998, Burbank's state-of-the-art Police/Fire facility opened.
Burbank is a charter town/city which operates under a council-manager form of government. In 1927, voters allowed the Council-Manager form of government.
Burbank is a full-service, autonomous city, with offices of the City Manager and City Attorney, and departments of Community Development, Financial Services, Fire, Information Technology, Library Services, Management Services, Police, Parks-Recreation & Community Services, Public Works, and Burbank Water and Power (BWP).
The first power was distributed inside the town/city limits of Burbank in 1913, supplied then by Southern California Edison Company.
Burbank's town/city garbage pickup service began in 1920; outhouses were banned in 1922.
Most of Burbank's current power comes from the Magnolia Power Project, a 328-megawatt power plant positioned on Magnolia Boulevard near the Interstate 5 freeway.
The municipal power plant, jointly owned by six Southern California metros/cities (Burbank, Glendale, Anaheim.
It replaced a 1941 facility that had served the customers of Burbank for almost 60 years. Like other metros/cities in California, Burbank has mandatory water cutbacks required under the state's drought emergency response plan announced in April 2015.
Burbank is required to lower water use by 28 percent of 2013 levels.
The Burbank City Council lost a court case in 2000 involving the right to begin meetings with a sectarian prayer. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge ruled that prayers referencing specific religions violated the principle of separation of church and state in the First Amendment.
While invocations were still allowed, Burbank officials were required to advise all clerics that sectarian prayer as part of Council meetings was not permitted under the Constitution.
Like other California cities, Burbank took a financial hit after Californians passed Proposition 13 in 1977.
As a result, Burbank officials opted to cut some services and implement user fees for specialized services. In September 2012, Burbank City Manager Mike Flad announced plans to quit after having held the job since 2009. Flad worked his way up in the town/city government after serving 23 years as a town/city employee.
He left to take the position of City Manager for the City of South Gate, California.
His last day as Burbank City Manager was October 26, 2012, as stated to a press release issued by the city.
Burbank City Council titled Ken Pulskamp to serve as interim City Manager, effective starting December 3, 2012.
Pulskamp came to Burbank after serving since 2002 as City Manager of Santa Clarita, California. Burbank's current interim-city manager is Ron Davis, who also serves as general manager of Burbank Water and Power. In the state legislature, Burbank is in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat Anthony Portantino, and in the 43rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Laura Friedman. In the United States House of Representatives, Burbank is split between California's 28th and 30th congressional districts, which are represented by Democrat Adam Schiff and Democrat Brad Sherman, in the order given. Burbank is inside the Burbank Unified School District.
White and nine other people. First titled the Providencia School District, Burbank's precinct started with one school home assembled for $400 on a site donated by Dr.
Burbank, the area's single biggest landholder.
The first schoolhouse, a single redwood-sided building serving nine families, is on what is now Burbank Boulevard near Mariposa Street.
In 1887, a new school home was constructed at San Fernando Blvd and Magnolia Boulevard, which was in Burbank's center of commerce.
When it opened on September 14, 1908, the initial Burbank High School had 42 students and two instructors. Burbank is home to a several California Distinguished Schools including the confusingly titled Luther Burbank Middle School (see history above).
The biggest university in Burbank is Woodbury University.
A number of lesser colleges are also positioned in Burbank, including a several make up and beauty trade schools serving the entertainment industry.
The nearest improve college to Burbank is Los Angeles Valley College, which is west of the city.
During the early 1920s, Burbank was a contender to turn into the locale for the southern branch of the University of California.
The Concordia Schools Concordia Burbank, a K-6 private school, is in the city. In April 2012, Lycee International de Los Angeles, a bilingual French American college preliminary school, submitted an application with the town/city of Burbank to operate a private school for grades 6 12 on the site of the former General Motors Training Center on Riverside Drive.
The airport, positioned in the northwestern corner of the city, is the origin of most street traffic in the city.
The assembly of primary freeways through and around the town/city of Burbank starting in the 1950s both divided the town/city from itself and linked it to the quickly growing Los Angeles region.
Burbank is easily accessible by and can easily access the Southern California freeways via the Golden State Freeway (I-5), which bisects the town/city from northwest to southeast, and the Ventura Freeway which joins Burbank to the U.S.
In May 2012, the state Transportation Commission allowed $224.1 million in funding for the improvements to the Golden State Freeway (I-5) in the Burbank region along with safety improvements to the barns tracks at Buena Vista Street. The allocation will fund most of the accomplishment to build a new interchange at Empire Avenue, giving greater access to the close-by Empire Center shopping center as it prepares to get a Walmart store.
Burbank contains about 227.5 miles (366.1 km) of streets, nearly 50 miles (80 km) of paved alleys, 365.3 miles (587.9 km) of sidewalks, 181 signalized intersections and 10 intersections with flashing signals, as stated to town/city figures.
Metro operates enhance transport throughout Los Angeles County, including Burbank.
For getting around Burbank, there is the Burbank Bus.
In 2006, Burbank opened its first hydrogen fueling station for automobiles. The projected California High-Speed Rail route will pass through the town/city and include a stop near Downtown Burbank.
At the time of cityhood, Burbank had a volunteer fire department.
In the late 1970s, Burbank became part of the Verdugo Fire District under a joint communications agreement with close-by cities, including Glendale and Pasadena. All three metros/cities were experiencing issues with fire dispatching at the time.
Under then contract, Burbank provided a Hazardous Materials team, Glendale provided an Air and Lighting unit as well as the dispatch center, and Pasadena provided an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Type Heavy team.
In 1907, Burbank's first primary hospital opened under the name "Burbank Community Hospital".
For years, it also was the only hospital in Burbank where women could receive abortions, tubal ligations and other procedures not offered at what is now Providence St.
In 2001, Burbank Community Hospital was razed to make way for a Belmont Village Senior Living community.
Proceeds from that sale went to the Burbank Health Care Foundation, which assists improve organizations that cater to health-related needs.
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank.
The town/city of Burbank includes and supports a range of nonprofit organizations that movement the character of life in Burbank.
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