In the early teens, when the studios relocated from New York to Los Angeles, they promptly opened on-site film banks to store their extra footage — literally, whatever didn't make the cut.
Around the 1860s, a timber yard was opened on-site and which continued for around a century before being converted to its present use as boat storage.
One of Auckland's top chefs opened on-site a first-rate New Zealand-influenced, six-month pop-up restaurant, the Waiheke Island Yacht Club.
The Assembly Rooms will, confusingly, keep their name, according to The Stand director Tommy Sheppard, and a Jamie Oliver restaurant will open on site.
A medical clinic is about to open on site; its initial contingent of six doctors will service 500,000 potential patients in Doha's industrial zone.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Shopping Center opened on the site a year later, a symbol, one resident said at the time, "that Watts is on its way back".
But Michaela free school, which opened on a site in north London in 2014, described two south London sites in its application – and ended up on neither.
Last month, the first national skills academy for the training of backstage skills opened on the site.
The new Red Star Line museum opened on the site last month, after a €20m programme of renovation.
The new apartments and a Target store opened on the site last year.
It was to have opened on the site by late 2000, but has yet to break ground.
