Columbia
Headquarters building is a 420,000 square foot, 12-story office building
situated directly across the street from Warner Brothers Studios.
Chandler
was given the development and construction assignment. As a result,
the property was purchased, planned, rezoned, and designed for this
particular headquarters project. It was constructed on a fast-track
basis, where we received the permits for excavation, then separate permits
for the 8-story garage, and followed by the permits for the building
which sets on top of the underground garage and parking structure. This
fast-track basis enabled us to save eight months in the planning process,
as we did not have to wait until the complete drawings were permitted
due to excellent cooperation from the City of Burbank, which issued
us three separate permits.
The
design was complex in that we were constructing the garage prior to
having a building permit for the building, which obviously caused some
great concerns and very careful engineering and design work.
The
building currently houses the executives from Warner Brothers and is
owned by the Douglas Emmet Group. The design is exceptional and is on
the cover of the City of Burbank’s business directly and is also
the lead project in their outreach program to bring new business and
vitality to the City of Burbank.
