Adventure Studios LLC Launches PlaceNews.com, the Only On-Line 24/7 Real Estate News Portal Dedicated Exclusively to the Out-of-Home Themed Entertainment Industry
PlaceNews.com to Provide a Hub for News, Useful Links, Articles, and Best-Practices Ideas for Professionals Working in the Converging Place-Based Entertainment, Retail, Hospitality and Other Location-Based Entertainment Industries
Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) March 2, 2005 -- Adventure Studios LLC announced
today that PlaceNews.com, the company’s 24/7 “always fresh” real estate news
service, will conclude its beta testing and go fully operational on March
15.
“PlaceNews is intended as a resource hub for professionals working in
out-of-home entertainment industries, providing news, useful ideas, and links to
other resources, “ said Stephanie Schulman-Bredberg, publisher of PlaceNews.com,
“it’s a fascinating time in the real estate industry these days, with everything
from town centers, lifestyle retail centers, restaurants, resorts, museums, and
all other place-based businesses, each competing for the attention of a very
sophisticated, busy consumer. And that consumer has a fixed ever-diminishing
amount of free time.”
Adventure Studios intends PlaceNews as not only a
hub, but a forum as well, for best practices and new ideas in the out-of-home
industries. “We well understand that today, there is no shortage of information.
However, there is an unbelievable shortage of edited information, summarized and
formatted in a way to provide perspective and insights. That’s where we’re
headed with PlaceNews,” said Schulman-Bredberg.
"We've also seen a great
hybridization, if that's a word, in the location-based built environment, " said
Don Bredberg, Managing Director of Adventure Studios LLC, "today we have a
fascinating mayhem in progress - we have restaurant companies buying aquariums,
entertainment studios experimenting with travel excursion, and retail developers
creating wonderful themed retail-entertainment environments. Traditional roles
and limitations are gone. Fascinating and attracting guests is more alive than
ever."
PlaceNews.com is a first on-line publishing venture for
Schulman-Bredberg, but her second publishing business. During the growth control
frenzy of the 1980’s in California, Schulman-Bredberg published Southern
California Growth Monitor for Stonecreek Advisors, a digest of entitlement and
growth control laws. Stonecreek Advisors ultimated shuttered Growth Monitor to
focus on its core real estate advisory business. "We're going to realize the
business model for PlaceNews as we go, since the core out-of-home news service
will be free," said Schulman-Bredberg, "but we are looking at premium newsletter
services, special themed entertainment reports, customized RSS feeds, and some
other revenue models for implementation down the road."
Themed
retail-entertainment firm Adventure Studios LLC provides design, consulting, and
multi-media services in support of client projects including
retail-entertainment centers, resorts and other hospitality venues, mixed-use
developments, and a variety of other location-based entertainment venues. The
company prides itself in bringing, "Great Places, Great Moments, and Great
Memories" to out-of-home entertainment guests. Since its formation, Adventure
Studios has worked with such clients as Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios,
Marvel Entertainment, King World Entertainment, Hillwood Development, SHKP
Properties, Sumitomo Corporation, the Morongo Indians, The Rouse Company, Simon
Properties Group, and Donahue Schriber, among others. Adventure Studios was
founded by former Universal Studios executive Don Bredberg in 1999. Adventure
Studios LLC is in the process of acquisition by affiliate Stonecreek LLC, a deal
slated to be completed by year-end.
For more information about PlaceNews
visit www.PlaceNews.com, or
call Amy Giggins at Adventure Studios Communications at 818.973.3131. For more
information about themed entertainment firm Adventure Studios LLC visit www.AdventureStudios.com
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