George Lucas wants to build a new state of the art digital film production studio in Northern California. Lucas has asked Marin County to consider plans to build a 262,728-square-foot building that would house a maxim of 340 employees at the former Grady Ranch in Lucas Valley.

Thomas Forster, the former director of operations for Skywalker Properties, says "what Grady gives us which we don’t currently have in Marin is a digital production space for actual shooting, a few large rooms to do digital blue or green screen work.”