Metreon - San Francisco, CA
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Metreon (often colloquially referred to as The Metreon) is an entertainment shopping center, launched on June 16, 1999, the first in a proposed succession of Sony urban centers aggregating dining, gaming, music, exhibitions, shopping, and movies.
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Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2008
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Located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of 4th St. and Mission St., Metreon is a four story 350,000 square foot (33,000 m²) building, built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center. Sony intended the ambitious US$85 million project not only to be a theme park and gallery for Sony products but an anchor for strengthening a hip image for the Sony brand.
The original attractions included a movie theater including both standard and IMAX screens, a multimedia edutainment presentation involving audio-animatronics and 3-D film based on the famous book The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, a play area for young children based on Maurice Sendak's popular children's book Where the Wild Things Are (sharing a floor with an In the Night Kitchen themed restaurant), and an arcade and bar, the Airtight Garage, based on French comic artist and graphic designer Jean "Moebius" Giraud's graphic novel of the same name and featuring all original games. Metreon, in partnership with Sony's anime television network, Animax, was host, in October 2001, to an anime festival, in which numerous anime titles were broadcast across its Action Theatre.
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