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Hollywood's Emerson College Six Months Away From Opening

The LA facility of the Boston College will be located at Sunset and Gordon.

Emerson College announced last week that it is approximately six months away from opening its Los Angeles facility at Sunset and Gordon. 

Emerson College announced its intention to build Emerson College Los Angeles in 2011 and broke ground on the facility in 2012

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Patch reported in 2012 when the facility opens, the 10-story building will be home to 220 juniors and seniors, majoring in television, film, marketing communication, performing arts or screenwriting, and allow them spend a semester in Los Angeles enrolled in two courses and working part-time at an internship.

Emerson College President Lee Pelton previously told Patch the community is a priority for ECLA.

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“We commit to this neighborhood, to Hollywood and to the city of Los Angeles," Pelton said in 2012. "We will be good neighbors and effective citizens and great civic partners who will set about working where we can to renew and strengthen quality in these places, to improve culture so as to make it available to all, not just a privileged few.”


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