TriStar Pictures Studios

TriStar Pictures Studios (formerly known as MGM Plaza and Colorado Center) is a movie studio complex based in Santa Monica, California. it is the Headquarters for TriStar Pictures Entertainment since 2017.

History
the A thirteen-acre business park complex in Santa Monica was built on March 12, 1984 as as Colorado Place North, the first phase of a 28-acre mixed use development designed by Welton Becket Associates. Landscape architects Process Oriented Design (POD, Inc.) created the original landscape plan, which featured a central plaza linking six office and retail buildings built atop a subterranean, three-level parking structure. The plaza included a courtyard atrium which filtered light below ground, bermed lawns, and dense groves of ficus trees that screened the complex from the urban surrounds. The complex attracted Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios as a tenant and was known as MGM Plaza through the 1990s. their studio buildings are letters A, B, C, D and E and F is an office building and headquarters.

After acquiring the renamed Colorado Center, Tishman Speyer retained landscape architect Pamela Burton in 2002 to rejuvenate five acres within the complex. Burton replaced the existing plant palette with drought-resistant plants irrigated by a recycled water system while strategically placing deciduous trees to shade the buildings. The grading and peripheral planting was altered to make the complex more visible from the street, and an existing two acre lawn was planted with California sycamores and lined with beds of flowering Mediterranean shrubs. The corporate campus is connected by a series of garden rooms with water features and landscaped pedestrian walks. In the northwestern corner of the site, Burton introduced a 3.5-acre public park which includes volleyball, basketball, two tennis courts, and a playground.

in 2017, the site was purchased by Entertainment One and is renamed TriStar Pictures Studios. it is permanently the headquarters for TriStar Pictures Entertainment. Bulding A is Sudios 1, 2, and 3, Building B is Studios 4, 5, 6, and 7, Building C is Studios 8, 9, and 10, Building D is 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, and Building E is Studios 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. Building F is TriStar's Home Entertainment and Animation department and it's office building. the Colorado Center park is replaced with a new building for TriStar's new television department as well.