George Lucas Proposes Affordable Housing Plan
The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area's residents thwarted the plan.
So Lucas has come up with an alternative for his Grady Ranch property: To build low-income housing on it.
In a letter posted online, Lucasfilm wrote, "It is with great sadness that Skywalker Properties has decided to pull its application to build a studio facility.
Instead, the maker of some of the biggest box office successes of all time, including the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" franchises, intends to sell the property to the Marin Community Foundation (MCF), a nonprofit that has already funded more than 2,500 units of affordable housing and will explore options for developing Grady Ranch.
