Thanks to a long-rumored and recently consummated lease, theonly two hangars that hadn't been renovated are well on their wayto becoming the new home of ImageMovers Digital, a 3-D animationfilm studio that became part of Disney in February. WithImageMovers' long-term lease for the two 60,000-sf hangars and therest of the project filling up in 2006, Barker is confident aboutthe final stage of development.

"The project is fully entitled so all we have to do is designreview; we should be underway around mid-year [2008]," Barker tellsGlobeSt.com. "We're prepared to go forward without any signedtenants but we expect there will be some preleasing. Severalexisting tenants have expressed a desire to expand, which is why wefelt it was important to get this underway as soon aspossible."

Hamilton Landing is part of the former Hamilton Air Force Basethat Barker Pacific has turned into a hip home base for a varietyof companies. In addition to ImageMovers, which is about to startproduction of its first feature film, "A Christmas Carol" starringJim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge, other firms occupying thehigh-ceiling hangar space include video game makers ActivisionPublishing, Take Two Interactive and Nihilistic Software, and adivision of Sony Imageworks.