Update: SF loses George Lucas museum to LA - Curbed SF

Update: SF loses George Lucas museum to LA - Curbed SF

MAD Architects [Update: And it's over. The museum board announced late Tuesday that they prefer to build in LA, the home of Lucas' Hollywood affairs, rather than in San Francisco, his creative muse and neighbor to his own home. The statement reads: "After extensive due diligence and deliberation, the Board of Directors of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is pleased to announce plans to build the museum in Exposition Park in Los Angeles. "We have been humbled by the overwhelmingly positive support we received from both San Francisco and Los Angeles during our selection process. Settling on a location proved to be an extremely difficult decision precisely because of the desirability of both sites and cities." That leaves the city 0-2 in the great Lucas Museum record book. But at least it's a shorter flight than Chicago.] For the nearly seven years of its non-existence,

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